“But one of my favorite things about Olive is that her students, even the boys, come out of her class feeling alive.” I stilled. My heart began pounding, and I wasn’t sure whether I wanted him to stop talking or keep going. “She has them read books I’d never have the guts to bring into my classroom, but by the end, they all love her for it. It takes a special kind of teacher to read Jane Eyre to a bunch of teenage boys and have them enjoy it. But she does it. She’s the kind of teacher her students will come back and visit in twenty years because she meant so much to them.”
