How the Challenger Explosion Led to a Love of Learning

When she was in sixth grade, Gabrielle Rappolt-Schlichtmann had “checked out” of school. Her reading challenges made learning difficult. She avoided reading at all costs. But that all changed...

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We had the TV on and I was sitting on the couch and watching the Challenger launch,and I saw the Challenger explode.How could this happen? And there was a civilian on board, right, with the teacher Christa McAuliffe.All of the sudden I wanted to watch the news all the time.And then that suddenly started to transform into an academic pursuit.So many parents have the experience of looking at their child struggling,and then seeing them start to pull away from school to disengage.I had this experience and my parents were incredibly important in helping me reengage in school.So I got to middle school and there's just all these pressures on you. It's gonna be a really hard timefor lots of kids with learning and attention issues, and it was for me ...