Seattle Schools Community Forum: Teaching Compassion from One Teacher's Story

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Teaching Compassion from One Teacher's Story:

Teaching Compassion from One Teacher's Story

You may recall the story earlier this year about a Tacoma kindergarten teacher who was removed from her classroom because she was drunk.  I think most of us were aghast at hearing that.

But one person, reporter Matt Driscolll at the The News&Observer, wanted to know more.  He wrote this piece that appeared this week, 

This kindergarten teacher was fired for being drunk. Three months later, she was dead. 

It's a beautiful story, written with compassion.  It's about how every single person has a story especially beyond their death.

Klara’s story, on the other hand, is one with trauma and addiction at its center. Like roughly 17 million people in the United States, she battled alcoholism. Unlike most, however, Klara’s struggle was very public.

It’s a struggle that ended in early June, when she took her own Seattle Schools Community Forum: Teaching Compassion from One Teacher's Story: