Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know?
Teaching is a hard job, so I can only imagine what extra struggle these 15 teachers went through after sitting down to grade paper and seeing some of these pop up in their piles.
The truth is below…are you ready for it?
#15. A heartbreaking story.
Had a student submit a paper about growing up with an addict teen brother. He had the room next to her and sometimes when getting clean the parents would lock him in his room and he would have raging withdrawals. She was very young so I imagine there was a lot of medical care and therapy going on that she didn’t know about, she just remembered that her brother was screaming and crying in the next room and she would sit in her closet all night long terrified he was going to break through the wall and get her. It was such a heart-rending story and it made me view what families go through in such a different light.
#14. I kept reading anxiously.
It might get buried, but I need to chime in, mostly in the hopes that this student finds my comment and knows how much his story stuck with me.
The first paper assignment of the semester was to write about life at the university through a sociological lens.
This guy who was social, well-liked, in a frat turned in this shocking story.
He was writing about how hard his life was. How he had to scrounge for meals from the trash while seeing all the other students eat happily in the dining halls.
He described how he’d seen…
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