Sometimes things that are your type on paper don't always turn out to be for you in real life.

That's why T-levels, which mix classroom and on the job learning,

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and apprenticeship, or university.

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This is the way I heard it.

When Donald Crouch, first encounter Jim in his English class,

the aging teacher found a sullen, 14-year-old boy deep in a cocoon of self-imposed silence.

Donald might have assumed that Jim was bored or disinterested or maybe even backward.

Certainly, he appeared to be all of those things.

But there was something in the young boy that lit up whenever the subject turned to poetry.

It was subtle, but Donald could see a shift in the boy's posture,

a quiet but unmistakable enthusiasm that accompanied any discussion of Tennyson,

where Shakespeare, or Chaucer.

One day, Donald kept Jim after school and tried to reach the boy behind the stony facade.

The problem was soon made clear.

Jim stuttered, not a little, a lot.

Donald listened patiently as Jim tried to articulate the humiliation he'd lived with all of his life.

Through the stammering and sputtering, Donald saw that Jim had turned to the written word

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