environment AND the same teachers, became drop outs?
Because my learning styles better matched the styles of my teachers. While these teachers were not facilitative, at least there was a match in style and type. And, I am very flexible in learning style; where there was not a match, I was frustrated, considered the teacher a poor instructor (not knowing any better at the time; learner empowerment helps students to understand, not criticize, teaching style), but adapted my strategies to match the required style. (Unfortunately, in all the learning styles assessments I have done over the last 13 years I have found so few individuals who are this adaptive in learning style that I can name each one of them!) Personal example number two: five years ago I took in the 14-year-old son of a drug addict mother, who had ignored the son, slept with a variety of men, and had three children by three fathers, all of whom had left the home. Members of the Latino community, the mother and children lived in a barrio-like area. Shootings there are routine.
