TEACHER TO DONATE KIDNEY TO STUDENT

Eva Evans is a fourth grader at Slate Ridge Elementary in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. She started missing school last fall, and word got around that she’d been sick for months and probably would need a kidney transplant. In jumped Tanya Thomas, who teaches a different fourth-grade class down the hall from Eva. Thomas will be donating her kidney to Eva this summer. Giving a part of herself to a random kid at her school turned out to be one of the easiest choices Thomas has ever made. At her church she’d just seen donors step forward to help two people in need of kidney transplants and she wondered if that was a path also meant for her. Thomas, who is married to a teacher and has two children in college and one in high school, said, “I just felt like that door had been opened and I was supposed to walk through it.”
* And that door was the door to the O.R.
* Boy, what would the rest of us do without chumps like this, huh? … Is something a really nasty person would say.
* We underpay our teachers so badly, they now have to sell their organs to make ends meet.
* She’s lucky those two people at her church didn’t, like, volunteer to go to a leper colony.
* Well, it’s taken awhile, but we’ve finally got a GOOD story about teacher-student interactions.