Welcome to the club, Andrew.
Did you consider starting studying some 'psi' discipline? May help to handle
these issues promptly and with minimal little weeps.
Liked how you put it: "They seem to blame me for her success."
Perhaps only a little of D.Winnicott, if you feel puzzled enough.
Congrats,
Fernando.
on 14/12/2005 08:15, Andrew Fildes at afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, 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).
>
> ==============================================
> List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com
> List nannies: olympusadmin@xxxxxxxxxx
> ==============================================
==============================================
List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com
List nannies: olympusadmin@xxxxxxxxxx
==============================================
|