Stoughton's Phyllis Polillio makes permanent connections with her students
Linda Thomas Special to the Journal & Sun Six-year-old Jonathan McCoy was agitated and angry. Things weren’t going well at home, and he was lashing out, disrupting his school class with his behavior. A teacher exiled him to the corner to cool. off, but he just started kicking the radiator instead. That’s when Phyllis Polillio first entered McCoy’s life. Polillio, a Stoughton Public Schools teacher assistant, took the first-grader aside and talked to him privately, telling him he shouldn’t be taking his frustrations like that. “I remember telling Mrs. P. my mother was having a bad ...
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