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That smile is often found darting in one high school door or through another—anywhere there is an empty and quiet space. She has no classroom or office space of her own.
Her confidence is often asked in corridors or parking lots, and her attitude is always light.
“I could not begin to tell you what I may be doing” on any given day, said Mrs. Fox, adding her schedule organizes itself when she arrives at school and discovers what awaits her for the day.
Working with students who are a drop-out possibility or with students who need help dealing with teacherstudent problems, student-parent problems or student-student problems, Mrs. Fox said she does sometimes “mother the students.”
“I’m the one that reminds them they have a test or that homework is due,” she said, adding sometimes job demands are just what she does with her own three children.
Before this year, Mrs. Fox worked part-time at the school often working with seniors in after-school study groups lasting anywhere from 40 minutes to 90 minutes.
“We have been there as late as 5 p.m.,” she said of her group, usually studying senior courses that require extra tutoring or helping with students who demonstrate a need.
A new grant just made available through the state has made Mrs. Fox full-time.
Working with guidance counselor Joyce Good-Ewing, Mrs. Fox works with Family Guidance in confidential situations where children can share problems, learn problem-solving and deal with stressful situations.
As Operation Safe Haven coordinator, Mrs. Fox is allowed to take her “mothering” services from elementary school to graduates. Operation Safe Haven is a federally funded Drug-Free Schools grant.
“I have seven groups in the high
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