We gave them $100. They made someone’s day. 9 stories
Never cry in front of your boss. It’s a rule I live by, both as a teacher and a teaching mentor. I tell it to the young teachers I advise, and in all my years of teaching, I’ve never personally broken that rule.
Until I taught Gavi.
He was a challenge, to put it mildly. Completely nonverbal, I received zero confirmation that he was actually internalizing anything I was teaching. Not only that, he lacked impulse control and would react with aggression to most triggers. A big, strong 11-year-old, he’d throw a table across the room if upset, spill platters of food, knock drinks out of the assistants’ hands and more.
He also had a sensitive GI tract and would constantly throw up.
We tried our best, but one Thursday, things got out of control. He threw things, he threw up, we changed him, he threw up again. We called his mother.
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