The Developmental Story of Luke

It had been a while since Luke had been in formal schooling. It was 35 years to be exact. Societal changes over that time were too numerous to mention. Child development research was its infancy when he was born in 1962. And now Luke was about to get his 60 orbits done around the sun!

“Can I hack it? Will Mr. Davies like me”, Luke thought to himself.

Luke knew he was tentative and conflicted. It was more than going back to school at his age. It was that he always seemed to be an outsider. He learned differently growing up. He was an auto-didact. No one in his family knew where he learned to read. It just seemed that he did it. He didn’t attend kindergarten yet in first grade he was asked to attend spelling bees in the upper classes. He felt out of sorts doing this. School always seemed to be a challenge. While he loved school, he often seemed lost. Few teachers saw him though Miss Sandor, the teacher’s assistant, secretly passed to him a copy of “The Hobbit” in fourth grade. The few times he was allowed to go on his own in his studies separate from the rest of class was when he felt at home. Formal settings were also uncomfortable for him. It’s in these settings that he would feel grimy and feral.

Luke shook himself out of his reverie. He looked forward to his “Child Development” class. While he didn’t know what Mr. Davies was like, Luke…