This professor's email to a single mom who had to miss class over childcare issues is going viral
What an awesome professor!
What an awesome professor!
Morgan King, 21, is a single mom studying therapeutic care at the University of Tennessee. Normally, when King goes to class, her 3-month-old baby Korbyn's paternal grandparents can watch her, reports, but when that option fell through earlier this month, King’s professor told her to just bring Korbyn to class next time … and has gone viral for it.
"In the future, if you are having trouble finding someone to watch [your child], please feel free to just BRING HER with you to class,” Hunter replied to King’s email explaining her absence. “I would be absolutely delighted to hold her while I teach, so that you can still pay attention to the class and take notes. I work for the Department of CHILD and FAMILY Studies so how terrible would it be, if I was unwilling to have a child visit our class? I'm very serious with this offer.”
King’s tweet of the email has been retweeted 5,000 times and liked 26,000 times as well. Hunter told a professor made her the same offer when she was working toward her Ph.D: “I'm shocked that the reaction has been so big because I, like I said, I feel like it was a really normal thing to do.”
The student told she was especially touched by the gesture because her mother recently died of breast cancer. "The fact that somebody was just willing to work with me and to excuse me from the quiz I missed and how to get caught up on that assignment, it just showed that she cared more about, not that I missed class that day," King said.