How Esme' taught diversityIn the book Educating Esme', by Esme' Raji Codell, Esme recounts her experiences as a first-year teacher and the trials and tribulations tribulations he encountered first hand. “It is a painfully sincere, often thought-provoking personal tale…Esme is young, reckless, exuberant, alternately innocent and wise, always childish and sometimes irrational” (200-201). He struggles to give his best to each of his students throughout the entire school year. “She consumes them with wit, threats, music, poetry, sulks, compliments, and, always, daily, literature” (201). It does everything the children need, but most importantly it remains "...consistent, and [the children] know that if they don't follow [the] guidelines" that there will be consequences (65). Esme' does an amazing job working with the children as a whole and on an individual basis to reassure and nurture them; these are the things they don't get at home. She believes that "'you must be everything to them: counselor, mother, friend...' and so on" (161). Esme' understands more at the level the children are at. Herself "...Grew up in Uptown Chicago, the 'inner city.' [She] remembers being a little girl in a rented apartment… with [her] little brother and divorced father” (59). This allows her to see the children's lifestyle better, because she has seen it firsthand. "... they are beaten... their parents are illiterate, in prison, they play pranks, they force them to play pranks... they are hungry, dirty... they live in shelters... gangs recruit them..." (154-155). Esme' knows how to handle situations that arise "...[She] just lets them experience the horror of childhood...and [tries] to advise them to do... half paper... ..information that they are able to achieve through the critical thinking skills taught in school They would be much better equipped to work towards the main goal of teaching which is (subject to change based on different opinions, but for the most part it is). ) to touch at least one child's life. Despite the fact that after a year of teaching Esme' she has touched more lives in that single year than the average teacher has touched in her entire career do so because she has I started thinking, "Even if I fail, I have to try and try and try. It can be exhausting, but that's not the point. The goal is not necessarily to be successful, but to be the kind of person who has ideas and carries them forward" (8). More teachers need to try to emulate Madame Esme's goals and ideas, in this In this way diversity would not be a solution to a problem, it would be a resource.