Mr White History

06/17/2018

Trip to Washington DC!

06/10/2017

Year 2 completed! Goodbye to the Class of 2017. I'll miss you

06/09/2016

Just finished my first year at a middle school in SoCal! They have a tradition of the students bestowing a rose to someone who has inspired you. I felt so honored. Some fun kids...reminds me of TJ in Wasco!

06/22/2014

Disneyland 2014

06/22/2014

Griffith Observatory overlooking LA June 2014

05/08/2014

Some of my graduating seniors at the new school! They chose inspiring quotes and dressed in something that related to it! Great class this year.

05/29/2013

I saw a couple former students today who used to be 8th graders. It was so special to see them before I leave. One of them shared with me something that had bothered her. She told me about her "friends" who have changed in a negative way. So I thought this quote might be helpful to my current 8th graders as they go into high school and will perhaps experience the same thing.

05/25/2013

TO ALL MY GRADUATING 8TH GRADERS,

PLEASE, PLEASE READ THIS FROM AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN I DEEPLY RESPECT. IF COLIN POWELL RAN FOR PRESIDENT, I WOULD VOTE FOR HIM. HE HAS SO MUCH WISDOM AND I THINK HIS WORDS BELOW ARE GOOD FOR ME AND YOU BOTH. WHAT DO YOU THINK?

-MR. WHITE

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“The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people. As you grow, your associates will change. Some of your friends will not want you to go on. They will want you to stay where they are. Friends that don't help you climb will want you to crawl. Your friends will stretch your vision or choke your dream. Those that don't increase you will eventually decrease you.

Consider this:
Never receive counsel from unproductive people. Never discuss your problems with someone incapable of contributing to the solution, because those who never succeed themselves are always first to tell you how. Not everyone has a right to speak into your life. You are certain to get the worst of the bargain when you exchange ideas with the wrong person. Don't follow anyone who's not going anywhere.

With some people you spend an evening: with others you invest it. Be careful where you stop to inquire for directions along the road of life. Wise is the person who fortifies his life with the right friendships. If you run with wolves, you will learn how to howl. But, if you associate with eagles, you will learn how to soar to great heights.
"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses."

The simple but true fact of life is that you become like those with whom you closely associate - for the good and the bad.

Note: Be not mistaken. This is applicable to family as well as friends.
Yes...do love, appreciate and be thankful for your family, for they will
always be your family no matter what. Just know that they are human first and though they are family to you, they may be a friend to someone else and will fit somewhere in the criteria above.

"In Prosperity Our Friends Know Us. In Adversity We Know Our friends."

"Never make someone a priority when you are only an option for them."

-Colin Powell

05/10/2013

This was the first day of school this year. Wow the year has gone fast...Do you agree?

04/18/2013

Students, this is a great lesson to learn about yourself in how others perceive you...

How he did this will surprise you.

04/10/2013

04/10/2013

Emerging from a Puebloan Kiva in Mesa Verde National Park