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Article: Teachers Who Make House Calls
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 11, 1994
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Amenna Scott is a 14-year-old with a wispy voice and a new
kidney. When her classmates started school in the District this
year, she was at Children's National Medical Center recovering from
her long-awaited kidney transplant. For the first several weeks of
the semester, she won't be able to go to school - so school comes to
her.
That's because her teacher makes house calls. For children like
Scott, a little-known brigade of visiting teachers lug piles of
textbooks and materials to hospitals and homes so that injured or
chronically ill children can keep up with their schoolwork.
Typically, these teachers take lessons to children getting
treatment for leukemia or cystic fibrosis, ...