It's graduation season, and I think of Fran, a student years ago. She worked hard, but she    41   . So I tutored Fran during lunches, but then, she stopped    42   . I asked why she no longer came. She said, "It's no use. I'm not going to college    43    Mum says I'd go to trade school and work."

"Is that what you want?" I asked. She looked up and the    44    in her eyes shook me.

   45   , I didn't know what to say. Platitudes£¨³Â´ÊÀĵ÷£©about the value of college seemed    46    at the moment. So I turned to    47   . "Fran, you must pass my class. So, I am    48    you at lunch time tomorrow. No    49   .”

She nodded and walked away.

When Fran    50    turned up, I said, "You can go to    51    if you want to. You're getting much better at writing." But she kept    52   . I wasn't getting through to her. After reflection, I changed my    53   . Instead of insisting she consider college, I helped her    54    what college would be like.

At graduation, I watched proudly as she marched    55    the stage. After the ceremony, I    56    to congratulate several students. Fran rushed to me “Mr Jackson, I thank you for    57    me. I wanted badly to go to college, but no one told me I could except you. Now I made it."

I was so    58    of Fran at that moment and it often    59    me of why we do what we do. Schools should be places where students discover they have options and    60    their options. That is why we're here.

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