Once homeless, a student loses 100 pounds and fends off isolation with teachers' help
“Somehow, watching Keith makes me feel like I’m watching this whole rebirth of someone who wants to break the cycle,” he said. “He’s incredibly gifted, incredibly passionate, incredibly resilient.”
But the year I spent in Mr. Johnson’s class fortified my confidence in a way that, to this day, emboldens me. He celebrated my willingness to take creative risks. He taught me that art involved seeing with your heart as well as with your eyes. That’s a gift from him that I still rely on today.For Keith, art was a lifeline tossed to him by another Santee teacher. He can’t recall her name, “but I can still see her face,” he said.
That’s a lesson in how important thoughtful actions can be, particularly those little things we’re not liable to see when we’re obsessing over school test scores and judging overloaded teachers.Keith may be the object of this column, but the subject is the community of teachers, classmates and administrators who cared enough to lift him up.this spring.
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