Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Unbelievable.

I realize this is an exception. Then there are teachers, like my grandmother, who never went to college and still knew more than her college educated colleagues. My grandmother taught 3rd grade (I think...it may have been an older grade) for years. In her 80s she tutored a high school kid who had been adopted from Ukraine as an older child - he came to the US knowing no English and having had no school at all in Ukraine. The family who adopted him were not a family to him - he was not adopted for altruistic or loving reasons at all. She took him into her home and basically taught him to read and write English and basic math skills so that he could get along in the community and hold down a job (he worked at Burger King). He still has a room at her house even though he went on to get a job with an airline as a flight attendant and lives in a different state now.

Anyway, I digress…

[Via Granny]