In many ways, Ms. Lee brought her school into the twenty-first century. Yet, in so many other ways, she embodies what is essential, immeasurable, and timeless about the transformative power adults can have in children’s lives. Although she does not inhabit a classroom, keep hours in a counselor’s office, or occupy the authority of an administrator, Ms. Lee is the single greatest influence on students’ lives at the Alabama School of Fine Arts.
Since her school is a public, but highly selective fine arts specialty school, many children and parents are intimidated by the application process. Ms. Lee has held thousands of hands and guided many children who desperately need to be in a school like hers. Going well beyond her job description, she works with social workers, immigration officials, foundation officers, struggling single moms, and so many others to find ways to create paths for students to get into the school and succeed there.
Out of her own pockets, Ms. Lee has rescued children from group homes for troubled teens who are living in cells, arranged for students living in squalor to find means to reside in school dormitory rooms, transported students to buy them school supplies, health and hygiene products, clothes, meals, treats, refrigerators for dorm rooms, linens, towels, lamps, and more. She will often purchase the work of visual arts students to hang in her office or home because she knows they continue to need financial assistance. She has coordinated transfers for students displaced from their home schools by natural disasters, collaborated with community resources to get homeless students and families into improved living situations, and facilitated immigration paperwork for families who otherwise would abandon efforts due to language barriers or insufficient means.
Ms. Lee has also helped raise additional funding for students and make the entire school community aware of children in need. By always being the best version of herself, she inspires the same in others.
On an even deeper level, Ms. Lee illuminates the lives of students who beat a path to her office to be with her. All students have their own extraordinary stories in life that they rarely get a chance to share, or when they do, they may not feel at ease enough to tell them. One of Ms. Lee's greatest roles is reminiscient of what the poet Leonard Cohen wrote, "'There is a crack in everything, and that’s how the light gets in."
Ms. Lee takes many students under her wing because they need a mother figure in their lives, whether they're students without a parent, students who may be living far away from family, or those who need counsel on dealing with social issues. She provides a safe space for students to reveal things they have not found the courage tell anyone else, and a quiet place for students to be until they can compose themselves themselves and return to class. Sometimes, students just need candy from her candy dish and to be reminded that she—like the candy dish—will always be there for them when they need her most.
Ms. Lee has a rare personality that somehow communicates to everyone that she is someone they can safely open up to. So often, educators cannot help students and their families because they are unaware of their needs. Ms. Lee is the person students confide these needs to at Alabama School of Fine Arts. Although she already works in the curriculum office as registrar, she embodies her school’s hidden curriculum, which is so beneficial to students, faculty and stakeholders and truly defines the school culture and atmosphere.
So many students will choose to use their “free period” to check in with her and sit down for long conversations, the sort that students rarely participate in throughout their formal education. In these impromptu sessions, students share their life stories, their family’s cultures, their dreams, and their fears. They exchange their favorite music with Ms. Lee, bring her tokens of their love and appreciation, hang out, and listen to her stories about school history, her life, and her own children and grandchildren.
"They need her as their moral compass for so many life decisions that they face daily. This is the curriculum that never shows up on the very transcripts she so meticulously works on for the students," Hill said. "It is in her office that so many values, norms and traditions are nurtured, transmitted and instilled."
Ms. Lee is the first person so many alumni think of when they reflect on what the Alabama School of Fine Arts means to them. They all came to school wanting to be inspired to be what they knew they could be. They might be published poets in Chicago, directors of art foundations in New York, NASA scientists in Baltimore, freelance writers in New Orleans, doctors in Boston, ordained priests at The Vatican, or doctoral candidates at Juilliard. What they all share in common is the influence of Ms. Lee.
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