Stacey Bess is an amazing teacher and person. She has endured many hardships that probably none of us will come into contact with. Yes, Stacey is a teacher, but her classroom is not an ordinary classroom. At first Stacey started teaching homeless people in a hut under the freeway, eventually she got her own classroom in a homeless shelter. Stacey has a different class almost every day and never knows if she is going to see her students the next day.- I don't know if I would have the strength to do what she does everyday, it would be to emotional for me.
While Stacey took some time off to take care of her newborn baby, she would find herself writing about her life stories more since she couldn't be out there living them. She published this book and it is called "Nobody Don't Love Nobody: Lessons on Love From the School With No Name." Later on she had a movie made about her life called "Beyond the Blackboard".This Sunday I am getting chance to watch her movie on a charter bus on the way to the TAFE State Conference and I am also getting to meet her during the conference! I am super excited and can not wait to watch the movie and meet her
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