The Complicated Grief of Losing My Favorite Student - Electric Literature

The Complicated Grief of Losing My Favorite Student - Electric Literature

Come See Me Before You Go by Karen WilfridHe was my favorite student. Most people, when I tell them that, assume I mean it figuratively—that he was special, a kid I liked a lot—because teachers aren’t supposed to have a literal favorite. But Tyler was mine. I found it comforting, that first year of teaching, to have this one, private failure amid so many public ones: lesson flops, classroom management nightmares, papers piling up ungraded. I had…