Dorothy Thicket

Lucy's Ghost

As a veteran middle school teacher, I have seen my fair share of strange kids come through my classroom, but few students will stand out stronger in my memory than Lucy Kandle. Lucy was a quiet yet inquisitive girl who recently tormented my homeroom class. Here I was, a grizzled veteran, facing off with a small copper-haired girl who questioned everything and used the question "why?" like an instrument of torture. Taming her insatiable, infuriating curiosity into a force for learning has been one of the greatest hurdles in my teaching career.