A police officer’s bullet to the spine. A fall from a neighbor’s golf cart during an afternoon’s joyride. An ongoing battle with leukemia. A struggle with chronic leg pain.
The boys and girls of the Hospital Homebound program — in every school district in America — land in the virtual classroom because of their own personal health struggles, all of them debilitating and life-altering, some of them life-threatening. It is a classroom without walls, or desks, or in many cases, even faces they can see. But it is filled with the kind of heart and determination you don’t often find in school.
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