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Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] My best Christmas present.
From: John Wheeler <wheelej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:28:12 +1100
Good on you, Andrew. I guess this sort of thing makes the more menial 
parts of teaching all worthwhile.

John,
Sydney, Oz.

Andrew Fildes 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).
> 

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