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This video is complied of photos from Read Across America on March 2. The voice-over is Dr. Melody Hackney speaking on the book "Love you Forever."

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reading helps me learn it helps me get good grades and makes me smarter there's a personal sentimental piece professional peace is that we have so much greater responsibility than just teaching academic content we have to kids to love we have to teach them to care to empathize and I'm just blown away at how one little silly story can always bring that out in them the compassion for the aging process you know the the understanding of caring one Traditions I mean I don't care play Young the kids are they get it they get the message and so to me it's just the perfect book to you get them laughing at some of the silly ass to get their attention with the silly Parts but they always get the message and I truly read it to hundreds of classrooms and what ages all ages are 17 year olds has the teacher as a principal as a structural coordinator and even now as superintendent of Red 2 safe easy easily hundreds of classes it's probably could even be like a thousand but I'm not sure but I've read two lots and lots of in that 30 years  and since I became an administrator so from a principal on I have read the same book to every group of students whether they were pre-kindergarten little four year olds or weather and I'm not kidding when I say this when they were 17 and 18 year old kids at a high school I have the same book and this is even more interesting to me and the students each and every time regardless of how old they are they always get the very special message of this one forth back and forth and she rocked him she sang the song I love you forever I like for always as long as I'm living my baby you'll be

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