Paradigm Shift

I remember early in the beginning of my fifth grade school year, and walking through the halls of Pearly View Elementary. The school population was very small because I lived in a very small town. As I passed the girls boys in other classes I could recall their names and my personal interactions with each one.

It wasn’t until I ran into Elizabeth, a girl I knew from the Kindergarten through fourth grade Mount Shinra Elementary school. She was talking to Melissa Kings about summer vacation. I asked Elizabeth who her teacher was this year. She told me that she had Mrs. Cowen. This surprised me because I knew that Mrs. Cowen was a special education teacher.

Up until that point, I always thought of special education students to be drooling idiots. But Liz was not like that all. She was usually the first one to raise her