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Chelsea Zent’s days are packed. An eighth-grade English teacher at Norris Middle School, she spends her days instilling students with a love of literature and language, then it’s home to spend quality time with her young daughter, followed by evenings of grading papers and preparing lesson plans.
But when Zent learned that a student with cancer needed someone to home school him, she made time in her schedule — and in her heart.
“When I learned what the family had been through, I just felt the need to be the one,” said Zent, who home-schooled Josh Chavez, 13, this past school year.
Josh was first diagnosed with bone cancer when he was a 10-year-old at Olive Drive Elementary. After rounds of chemotherapy and physical therapy, he was able to return to school for fifth and sixth grade.
Josh had only been in seventh grade one week when a tumor was found in his right leg in August of 2007.
“He had to put his new backpack away. It was really hard...
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