Reporter’s notebook: kids, cancer, schools, take 2
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- April
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Erin McAllister, program director of Gilda’s Club South Jersey, on how a school staff member with cancer affects the school:
“I think it has a huge impact, especially if it’s a favorite teacher. A lot of kids spend more time with their teacher than their families. That routine is so important for them. Then they see a teacher hasn’t been in and hear rumors … it’s important to be up front and honest with them.
“It’s something they put in the back of their mind that has a lasting impression. Kids who have lost a teacher to cancer have been drastically impacted by it. If it’s a bad experience, every person will die. If it’s a survivor, then that person, that teen, is going to learn that if someone is diagnosed they can survive.”
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