Liz Everson, Kim Hogan and Michael Crowley— all staff members at the Richard J Murphy School in Neponset—teamed up to help a boy who was lost and in distress in the neighborhood on May 9.
In today’s schools, teachers are often required to go above and beyond their duties to students in the classroom. Last Wednesday, three staff members at the Richard J. Murphy K-8 School in Dorchester, in guiding a lost child to safety through the streets of the neighborhood, took their responsibilities to a new level.
On that day, Liz Everson, a special education teacher at the school, had just begun her shift in the after school program when a woman from the Dunkin Donuts across the street on Morrissey Boulevard brought over a child approximately 14 years in age who she had just served, thinking he was a student at the school. The young teen was not in fact a Murphy student, but Everson, with 15 years of work in special education under her belt, quickly realized he was autistic and non-verbal.