At 09:15 PM 14/12/2005 +1100, AndrewF wrote:
>I had a very moving experience today and have felt the need to tell
>everyone so I'm afraid you lot get it too. Just over six years ago I
>noticed that one of my students, in a Year 11 Environmental Studies
>class, seemed troubled and although she was bright, her work was
>getting late and poor. Fortunately she chose to talk to me and I
>discovered that she had real troubles. In the previous five years,
>her father had died, her uncle suicided and now the boy next door had
>suicided as well. Every important male in her life had left and she
>was grief-stricken, feeling somehow responsible. She spent a fair
>amount of time staring at walls and crying. At that point we could
>have lost her, seen her drop out of school. I managed to restructure
>her whole course so that she went part-time and took three years
>instead of two to complete senior high school - plus add in a lot of
>encouragement and counselling.
>She dropped in today with her mum, to say thanks. They seem to blame
>me for her success. She's just completed her honours degree in
>Ecology and the University has given her a generous scholarship and
>part-time work to complete doctorate in Science, researching Powerful
>Owls. I had to go out the back and have a little weep after they
>left. Shit I feel good today. And just a little emotional.
>AndrewF
>(and she's promised to help me photograph the beasts too).
Darn it you've made me cry now. What a great result, you did good mate.
Andrew McPhee
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