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[mindmetoo]

I've got this one girl, Lilly. She's about 10-11 years old. She's covered in warts. Her fingers look like an octopus tentacle. Little warts on the pads of her fingers. Warts on the back of her hands and along her arms. She spend half the class trying to pick and scrape the warts off. I noticed where one wart used to be she's got a red scab.

I suspect this is a result of extreme stress in her life. She's a bit pudgy and one of the boys started to make fun of her until I read him the riot act. Usually if there develops a class nerd I try the subtle approach: I call him (usually a him) by his name and "chingu" in front of the rest of the students. If I see him in the halls with the other boys I always call out a friendly hello to just him. "Heya John, have a great weekend!" I'd rather make the other kids see the nerd is cool with the foreign teach. But some bullet headed boy calling an otherwise cute little girl "fat" just tries my patience.

Anyway, Lilly, as best I can figure, goes to hagwon, takes violin lessons, takes piano lessons, takes guitar lessons, goes to the gym after hagwon (an attempt by her parents no doubt to get her to lose weight) and she's in Girl Scouts (or Girl Guides as we'd call it in Canada). She's just adorable in her little Girl Scout uniform, warts 'n' all.

Given most warts are caused by a virus and stress plays merry hell with the immune system, in my medical opinion, her warts are no doubt acerbated by her stress by her picking her warts and spreading the virus hither.

[captain kirk]

The fattest kid at school, Jungwan, is teased but he likes the attention and takes it in a jolly way. When he was first settling in I told the girls not to call him 'pig', but he's a character everybody genuinely likes.

Daisy seemed stressed out. Five months ago there was another f-teacher who stayed a month and he'd taught her before, at another school. He said it was a shame how kids with learning disabilities get ignored. And that other teachers would kick her out for doodling and being off in her own world playing at the window. He just let her do what she liked. But she has changed.

I would never have expected back then that she'd stop being off in her own world, actively doing whatever but not studying, and start responding with pride at her ability to get it right. It's like she has been listening the whole time and has tuned in to our station. She's been going to haggies for years and is still at Let's Go 2. She's really a great kid.

[Thunndarr]

Hmm...had a little girl slash her wrists. I don't think she was cut too deeply, but it's a definite call for attention.

[Zenpickle]

I have a six-year-old girl who has been in my class for two months, and I still have not seen her smile. She always seems stressed out. Her mother is a hagwon dragon. It makes me sad to think of what her home life is like.

[mindmetoo]

[Zenpickle]