[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I see you got my point. But I think you misapprehend Sister Mary Edwards. She recognized a shy, lonely, short boy, from one of the poorest families in a poor parish, and did him a favor he will never forget.

[PapaBear3625]

I see you got my point. But I think you misapprehend Sister Mary Edwards. She recognized a shy, lonely, short boy, from one of the poorest families in a poor parish, and did him a favor he will never forget.

I'm going to assume a different "favor he will never forget" from what current teachers will do for a boy.

[xrmusn]

But I think you misapprehend Sister Mary Edwards. She recognized a shy, lonely,
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Sorry, wasn’t/isn’t meant to disparage Sister Mary Edwards.

That scenario sounds very familiar.
‘They’ rewarded this short, skinny, baby faced kid by having me ‘skip’ 2nd grade....being an Oct baby, that made me about 2 years younger than my classmates by the time we all reached 8 grade (well earlier but it ‘counted’ then) especially going to the ‘Govt School’ in 10th grade and the only thing that kept the ‘idiots’ away was to excel in sports - being the class ‘cut up’ helped to a point BUT it did instigate a lot of ‘Could do better if applied oneself more’ messages etc etc...