*If you’re a teacher who has ever taught K-12, do you ever think back and wonder what happened to some of those kids?
Little Johnny, who worked your nerves because he always threw those doggone paper airplanes when he thought you weren’t looking.
Nikki, who never seemed to be in a good mood.
And David.
Yeah. That David. The boy you always ended up sending to the principals office.
If you’re feeling bad as the teacher, you can imagine how that principal must be feeling. She or he is the one who really had to do the disciplining. He is the one that had to make the tough choices.
She is the one who had to live with those choices, even years later, after she knew better. Thought differently. Had that “come to Jesus moment” that made her see things in a different light.
That’s what happened to Nancy Hanks, who was riding the elevator one day when she looked up from her cell phone just as a former student she had expelled when she was principal at one of Chicago’s toughest schools walked in.
Gulp.Â
She knew him instantly. And a swarm of guilt feelings consumed her as questions filled her head wondering how he had turned out.
Read more and watch her moving recollection at EURThisNthat.
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