For the Love of the Kids

I met someone who worked for twenty three years with kids in the juvenile system, children and youth, and with developmental and mental issues that have interferred with learning. Kay is a reading specialist and probably not paid very well, and yet, she has given a third of her life and half of her working career to provide reading instruction to low performing students. No doubt she would love to discuss classic literature and read wonderful essays but instead she reinforces phonemic awareness day after day with grown kids. Hers are one part of the many unseen sacrifices, the unrewarded efforts that noone knows about. She does it for the love of the kids.