When Frederick Douglass High School graduating senior Alayshia Catching was learning to navigate school expectations and her own potential in the first grade, she says she “had a little rough patch at the start.”
Lindsay Wallace, her first-grade teacher at Lexington’s Dixie Magnet Elementary, was among the instructors who recognized her potential, and that early support changed how Alayshia saw herself.
“My behaviors started to improve. Eventually, I was getting honor roll. My teachers really impacted my life,” Alayshia said, according to a news release from Fayette County Public Schools shared Friday…