Note 12

December 16, 2019

Thank you to the middle school staff for coaxing a scared child out from behind a palm tree in the lobby, and for sitting with me and Luca on the stairs for months before he was ready to enter class. Your willingness to offer counseling to a child on the floor, on the stairs, on the couches, in the parking lot…wherever he needed it, was a testament to your compassion and commitment. You helped him build confidence and quiet his anxieties every day… Thank you for building a school where students can fall down and get back up again and again and again.  You demonstrate grace, teach resilience, and show dignity to children who have often not previously been blessed with those lessons…