Driven 2 Educate

“I see you and you’re OK and we’re going to be OK.”  On Valentine’s Day of 2011, Landon committed suicide. Ricky, Landon’s twin brother, happened to be in Paul Richardson’s class the following year where Landon’s name came up over and over again. Paul noticed his absence in the way his students behaved and expressed themselves and he knew he had to do something about it. This realization would change Paul’s career, life and teaching style. It would inspire him to help his students in a different way than ever before, to help them live from their core. Before encountering Ricky’s class, Paul quit his job and moved to Florida, telling people he wanted to be a pirate. This was his way of dealing with a world that to him had gone mad and remembering a childhood where he had been on edge, which is what now makes it possible for him to relate so closely to his students, showing them intuitively that he would die for them. Back in Kansas City, he chose