A Special Education teacher in Mexico has recently gone viral after a photo was taken of her teaching an autistic student in the back of her own truck which she's transformed into a mobile classroom.
Identified only as Nay, the educator from Apaseo el Alto, Guanajuato, has been using her makeshift class to continue teaching students after schools in Mexico were canceled as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
In that picture, the teacher can be seen wearing a face mask while seated at a fold-up table in the bed of her truck with a young student as the pair go over some learning material together.
"This teacher transformed her pickup truck into a portable classroom," the original tweet reads. "She drives two hours a day to teach children with autism who don't have books or access to the internet."
"Now this lady is a 'Real' teacher," one Twitter user wrote. "She cares and knows these kids need education."
Another applauded Nay, adding that their own brother has Down Syndrome, and the lack of one-on-one education as a result of the pandemic has caused him to start regressing.
In a series of translated tweets, she explained that she is, indeed, a Special Education teacher, and explained that she is responsible for educating students who have a disability or "learning barrier."
“It was not my intention for this to transcend so much," she continued. "I wasn't even the one who shared this photo. The point is that, good or bad, the action I did was always thinking of improving my teaching work."
Not only was she looking to find out the academic recourse of the school closures, but she also wanted to see how her students have been handling the lockdown emotionally, because “this has not been easy for anyone.”
"[All] teachers in one way or another strive every day for our students," she wrote. "Because although it seems easy, for many it is not since sometimes you neglect your children's homework to send or review your students' homework. It is not easy since you become a teacher 24/7 ."
"Sadly, Special Education is the least endowed with resources, therefore the teachers who work in this subsystem have to make many adjustments to materials, spaces, etc. so that our students have access to learning," she explained in the campaign's description.
If you wish, you can donate towards Nay's Special Education fund here.
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