VIRGINIA BEACH Jesse always sat in the back of the classroom. She never did much work, her teacher said, never showed much drive. Not until the letters arrived. Advertisement Jesse was an 11th-grader at Port of Los Angeles High School in San Pedro, Calif. Kate Roughen , 28, taught there for two years. Her recent lesson on the Holocaust , with its unexpected connection to two survivors in Virginia Beach, lit a spark inside Jesse and captured the enthusiasm of the class in a way the teacher never thought possible. Advertisement "They realized: 'I'm in charge of my own happiness,'"...
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