The mentor who believed in him

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important thing you

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can give any human being he gave them

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agency and a sense of importance and

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just always felt like he he wanted me to

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win hearing that that Jason looked up to

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me and and valued me is actually really

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humbling and it it just makes you very

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aware that as a teacher that the impact

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you can have is is huge if I hadn't met

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Sandro I wouldn't be sat in front of you

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now Jason has been a a special case I

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think he my life I met him in 2003 he

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didn't know how to write I felt

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something on the day I must help this

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guy there was something about Sandra's

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approach that took Jason back to his

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past and this time he was ready Sandra's

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whole thing was repetition just doing

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phonics doing literacy doing reading and

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writing over and over again went over

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and over and over with the same topics

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until he's mastering it they tell me

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every day you're great you're going to

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do something great every single day but

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you have to be disciplined Jason you

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need someone to say look you're capable

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of doing things you going to achieve it

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you know let's do it together and one of

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the things