Teachers, have you ever helped change a student’s life? If yes, what happened?

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Teachers, have you ever helped change a student’s life? If yes, what happened?

One day, while I was sitting in my office, a student I had never seen before walked in. Immediately, I noticed by his behavior that he was likely a student with behavior issues who had slipped out of his classroom. He started talking, asking who I was and what I did. As he took tissues out of the box one by one, I realized he was trying to get a reaction from me, but I remained calm. Then he knocked over several trash bins, but I still didn’t react. After that, he walked into my office restroom while still talking to me, leaving the door wide open. He started messing around with the items in there. I moved closer to see what he was doing, and then he attempted to pull the sink off the wall while saying he had issues controlling himself from doing things he knew were wrong. He mentioned that he had been expelled from his previous school last year for throwing his desk at another kid. Eventually, he grew tired and noticed that the sink wouldn’t budge. I continued to talk with him and asked if he wanted to help me clean up the mess or go back to class. He chose to help me clean, and I walked him back to his classroom. That kid needed years of effort from many people, including therapy and medication, to learn how to manage his impulses. He eventually moved out of the behavioral program, joined mainstream classes, became an athlete, made real friends, and graduated.

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