DIL is a teacher in public schools in the Kenosha district of WI; has been for many years. For several of those years, she taught minority inner-city kids, from poor, disadvantaged backgrounds that weren't "special needs"; they just didn't care, and had no idea of how to study. Homework wasn't emphasized; they wouldn't do it anyway. They excelled in running the streets, many times as gang members. She employed some unconventional methods of her own, but they worked. I visited her class a couple of times. The first time, she had them making breakfast, which for some of them was the only way they'd get any. They all had her home phone number, and were encouraged to call her with questions or problems, scholastic or personal. Some of them wound up on the streets or incarcerated, anyway. Several of them, however, turned their lives around and have kept in touch, thanking her for caring and crediting her with getting them on the right path in life. Quite a woman!
I haven't had coffee either.
My husband and BIL don't know how to make a bed! I don't mean hospital corners even! Just putting on a bottom sheet, and spreading the top sheet and blankets out. 
