from the day we walked to brooklyn, 2011 Last Thursday I had dinner with a former student at Copenhagen International School -- the school I worked in when I was headhunted to teach at Copenhagen City School. When I started at CIS I started as a private tutor and substitute teacher. I was hired by a few parents to support their kids with their homework and I was finally hired to offer a child full-time classroom support. His name was Brendan and that year I became very good friends with my Sarah from Wiggan, who was the classroom teacher. Sarah and I are friends to this day and we both worked really well together. Brendan was an amazing, round-faced, freckled boy whose family was also pretty amazing. I had to implement a reading programme with him, something that was supposed to help him read better as he was dyslexic. Brendan, like ALL other children I have met who have been diagnosed as having "special needs" was an amazingly talented young man. This experience ma...