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Rachel Zirkin Duda

Jul 302 min read

Teaching done right

After Seth failed Latin, I was left with a conundrum. He still needed to finish high school, but by this point, Seth didn't want to give...

Rachel Zirkin Duda

Jul 224 min read

Excerpt #1 from "Mending Together, Building Together"

Chapter 1: Having My Baby Pregnancy The day I found out I was pregnant, I was ecstatic. I vowed to avoid doing anything that could...

Rachel Zirkin Duda

Jul 54 min read

This Child was Left Behind - part 3 of 3

Had Seth been assigned an IEP early on, we might have been able to prevent what eventually happened. That said, this wasn’t entirely the...

Rachel Zirkin Duda

Jul 31 min read

Seth-isms

Seth has always had a unique way of looking at the world. I have dubbed his nuggets of wisdom and (often unintentional) strokes of comic...

Rachel Zirkin Duda

Jul 13 min read

This Child was Left Behind - part 2 of 3

Seth started his freshman year of high school at the age of 16 – in September 2020 – when school was online. Seth’s teachers loved him...

Rachel Zirkin Duda

Jun 293 min read

This Child was Left Behind - part 1 of 3

My son, Seth, is a 19-year-old young man who is intelligent, kindhearted, quick-witted, and wise beyond his years. He has always danced...