The Student

by Fern Goldstein

Overview

The Student takes readers inside the halls and classrooms of Abigail Adams Middle School on what turns out to be a terrifying and inexorable journey to the ending that is every teacher's and parent's nightmare. As we intimately experience the struggles of each of The Student's potential victims and of The Student himself, we feel teacher Sharon Bonavina's frustrations as she tries desperately, but in vain, to reach The Student—until we end up cowering behind the way-too-thin wooden doors of Sharon's classroom, watching the clock, wondering if help will arrive in time. Tick... Tick... Tick...

We inhabit a world where children are shooting their teachers and other children as the people who should do something do nothing or don't know what to do. As the other students in Sharon's classes all deal with their own problems and those brought on by the growing malevolence emanating from The Student, the book raises legal and ethical issues that urgently need answers; it raises awareness of mental health and the realities of what can and cannot be done in schools for students who struggle and for those who suffer because of them. It also makes us face fears that keep us up at night and trembling during the day.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940185615812
Publisher:	Fern Goldstein
Publication date:	03/16/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	330,482
File size:	686 KB

About the Author

Fern Goldstein taught English to students with learning disabilities for over thirty years. She was department chair at two of the schools where she taught, supervised, and trained other teachers and rewrote the language arts curriculum for them. She is the President of G Whiz Educational Resources and author of Looking Glass Spelling and Oops Grammar in Context. In 2009, Fern received the Sam Kirk National Special Educator of the Year award from LDA. She serves as the President of the Learning Disabilities Association of Delaware and has a seat on the National Board as well. She has spoken about learning disabilities and teaching writing, grammar, and language arts at national, regional, and state conferences for LDA, ASAH, CEC, and IDA, , among other organizations.
Since moving to Delaware, Ms. Goldstein launched an educational consulting business, G Whiz Educational Resources, but when the pandemic hit just months later and we all settled in for a long lock-down, she decided to put the skills she taught her students to good use and write her first novel.
Fern lives in Delaware with her husband and has two amazing sons, a wonderful daughter-in-law, and two granddaughters, Cara and Ivy, who are the light of her life.