They keep on crawing out of the woodwork.
Another (former) Hellstudent stopped by today. Her brother is in my class, and she's looking out for him. She talked to me about his progress, took a progress report, and promised to make him do his work tonight. She doesn't want him to blow off his freshman year like she did. Her mom relies on her for a lot (too much -- but such is the life of so many children, past, present, and future -- families do what they have to in order to survive), and she is rising to the challenge. Her mother told her that if she went to college, her brothers and sister would, too. She is frustrated by her responsibilities, but I'm also seeing her really take them on and take them seriously. She plans on college; last year she tried to convince me that it was easy to get a good job without a college degree.
It was an uplifting moment. We got off to a really rough start last year, but it warms my heart to see her mature. I take no credit; I'm just glad I get to witness some good stories to balance out some of the bad.
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It's definitely a kick to see kids mature and really start to figure it out. It's gratifying as hell, even when we're not directly a part of it because, well, you never know when you really were directly a part of it. And sometimes they tell you what your influence was on their lives, and you'd do the job for free.
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