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In An Instant Part Fifteen
Chapter Twelve:
It feels right to be around my students again, even if it’s to fight, to get me back in the classroom.
Why do I have to keep proving my capabilities, I was shot in the back, not the head.
My students there parents, are all here for me, of course my sister and Chloe are as well. They’ve been with me from the start, honestly if it wasn’t for them I wouldn’t have the strength to fight, the courage, honestly if it wasn’t for them I would have given up. But my sister and my niece, encourage me, and remind me to celebrate the little victories which honestly aren’t all that little when they are hard fought.
I never thought I was taking things like being able to feed myself for granted until I had to fight so hard to do it, even now it’s a struggle, but I manage. My body doesn’t work as it should, but my mind does, and shoulders that be the way a teacher is judged. It’s not that this is a daycare, these kids are in middle school, they don’t need me to physically help them, but they need a little extra help academically, at least they did, now most of my kids are scoring way above grade level in reading and comprehension, and no I don’t take the credit for that, they put in the work. But I’d like to have the opportunity to continue what I am doing, it’s not right that I am being punished for being shot, and I was…
