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Redefining her life

Teacher describes struggling student's turnaround as 'exceptional'

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WHS senior Miranda Lynch helps a special needs student stack the lunch tables in the school commons area. "I love helping them," she said. "It is so much fun." Lynch struggled at her school in Minnesota but is now on track to graduate since transferring to WHS last spring.

When teacher John Miller first opened Miranda Lynch’s case file, he was worried.

“I saw she had gotten into trouble in Minnesota and was a bit of a wild child,” he said.

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