Students Launch Driving Mrs. M.

Students Launch Driving Mrs. M. After 2 decades as a teacher at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen School, Anne Mekalian remains out of the classroom. "To start out we made cards, we had lemonade stands and now we have Driving Mrs. The kids sent Mekalian plenty of cards and letters. "I don't know who are able to forget Mrs. "He took me to a church parking lot and he said drive around this big circle…and the next thing I knew I was driving in two way traffic at 35 m. mh. "I really haven't been in their lives for the last year. The students' efforts have not gone unnoticed. Mekalian wears prosthetic hands and feet, and is using a specially equipped van to learn to drive. "We sort of fund-raised for her online to help her to drive again, to come to school and help her teach the new students," Brown added In just two weeks, the students have raised more than $6,400, and the campaign has a goal of $52,000. It is an online fundraising campaign on Give Forward, which is taking donations that will pay for Mekalian's physical therapy, and for driving lessons. She was probably the very best teacher we ever had," added Michael Dorsey, another one of Mekalian's students last year. Dorsey, Brown and the other students started Driving Mrs. "This can't be happening. She is also impressed with her former students. It was incredible," Mekalian said. Her students were devastated. "I developed sepsis and as such I didn't get enough blood flow to the small parts of the hands and the feet, so they amputated both of my hands below the elbow, and they amputated both of my feet below the knee," Mekalian told WBAL News. The teacher says even if she gets her driver's license back she is unsure when she could return to the classroom. "I'd like to return to Mary Our Queen. Students Launch Driving Mrs. M. Trade News selected by Local Linkup on 08/05/2012