But after a year spent reading to the youngsters, helping them spell and making them laugh, the home-schooler got a surprise thank-you from her students.
It came in the form of handmade notes scribbled across a piece of construction paper that was dotted with the artwork of a dozen elementary-schoolers.
"You tell jokes a lot. I like that," a little boy named Casey wrote between crayon marks. "You are a party animal."
That brought a laugh form Nicole, a quiet teenager who works with the Families...
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