I am going to let one of the students tell you the next instalment of my work with the Writers Group in a school:
“You can never really understand a person, until you climb into their skin and walk around in it”, read Mr Iqbal from the book ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’. An interesting statement that made me ponder; that you cannot really judge a person until you’ve experienced what they’ve experienced, until you’ve felt what they’ve felt, until you’ve seen what they’ve seen. As humans, it is our natural instinct to judge others. We do this everyday at work, on the bus, walking down the street or even at home. We form judgements without seeing the story from the other side”.