today i sat in a sweltering classroom encouraging meghan to put erasers on pencils and those pencils in tubes. her hands were shaking and she broke into laughter every time i told her how good she was working. in the background, the teacher and psychologist argued about her heatedly even though she was in the room and can sense tension and knows when you’re talking about her, and i hear,

…you send me a 20-year old college student with no experience and no degree to try and help a child who’s not going to change…”

and yet, they’d never seen her keep her attention on task for so long, or play the way she did at the end of the day.

so there, motherfuckers.