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miércoles, 11 de diciembre de 2013

An Open Letter To The Principal, From A Special Needs Mom

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Dear Mr. Principal,

My son, Aden, is coming into your school as a ninth grader. I'd like you to know who Aden is, so that he is more than a number on your special-ed roster. His trouble with school started early. He cried every day in kindergarten until nearly Thanksgiving. His teacher lamented his high energy. The diagnosis of ADHD came as third grade started. We gave him the meds, but homework was still torture. And the rubber-stamp homework "success tips" did nothing to address the elephant in the room: A kid who can't read even close to grade level is not going to be able to do homework, which involves reading.

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viernes, 22 de noviembre de 2013

Hotel Wants To Offer Homeless Man A Special Thanksgiving Thank-You

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Do you recognize this man? If so, Atlanta's Omni Hotel at CNN Center would like to have a word with you.

The man, believed to be named Josh Crabber, found a guest's wallet in a trash can while looking for food. Instead of using the credit cards to his benefit, Crabber, who is thought to be homeless, went to several hotels in search of the wallet's owner, eventually returning it to the Omni.

According to the Associated Press, the wallet's owner had been robbed earlier that day, and the thieves made off with her entire purse, apparently discarding the contents in a garbage nearby.

As a thank-you for Crabber's noble deed, the hotel wants to return the favor.

"Every person has a story and this person obviously has a story and did the right thing by bringing [the wallet] to try to find [its owner]," the hotel's managing director, Scott Stuckey, told Atlanta's WSB-TV. "When you're looking through food in the garbage can, it's probably one of the toughest times of [your] life. But when you find somebody's wallet and you do the right thing, I think we'd like to do the right thing by this person."

Stuckey told the station they'd like to give the man $500 for his efforts, in addition to putting him up in a room for Thanksgiving, with dinner and room service the next day.

Hotel employees have the name Crabber gave them and an image taken from surveillance camera footage to identify the man, but no other means to contact him, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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