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Middle-school teacher tells board about district support after student’s loss
Summary
Amy Avant, a Brenham Middle School math teacher, described taking a grieving student into temporary care after his father died and credited widespread district and community support for helping the child and family.
Amy Avant, a math teacher at Brenham Middle School, used the meeting’s public comment period to describe how staff and the community rallied to support a student whose father recently died. “My name is Amy Avant. I'm a math teacher at the middle school,” she told the board, and described taking the student—whom she called “Johnny”—into temporary care to help him transition after his father’s death.
Avant highlighted the breadth of the support she received from across the district, naming campus staff, central office personnel, counselors and community members. She urged the trustees to recognize the unpaid emotional and practical work that teachers and community volunteers provide to help students in crisis.
