Ep. - 1631 - SATURDAY SERIES: ELI MCCANN
6/6/202631 min
Eli McCann, attorney and writer, went viral on TikTok for his heartfelt videos celebrating his beloved teacher, Mrs. Yates, and his story sends Kate down memory lane to her own fifth grade classroom in West Chester, Pennsylvania, where a small but mighty teacher named Helena Graham delivered one unforgettable piece of advice that changed the course of her life. This episode is a love letter to the teachers who saw something in us, said the hard things when no one else would, and shaped us in ways we are still discovering decades later.
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First 90 secondsEli McCann· Guest0:00
The Amazing Kate Casey.
Kate Casey· Host0:04
Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with Kate Casey, and welcome back for the Saturday series episode. And I think it's this most special episode this week because many of us are having graduations for our children. It's their last day of school, and I just think teachers are so special. I was recently scrolling through TikTok, and I found a video from Eli McCann talking about his teacher, Mrs. Yates. I don't know exactly what happened, but somewhere in the middle of it, I just started crying. And it was like the good kind of cry, the kind that kinda sneaks up on you because something that somebody says just kinda reaches directly into part of your chest that you forgot existed. And for me, it took me straight back to fifth grade, East Bradford Elementary School, West Chester, Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Helena Graham's classroom. That was the year that my family life was at, really at the most chaotic. My older sister had moved out to live with her best friend. My mother was doing her best to manage my stepfather, who had schizoaffective disorder, and without any real financial resources to speak of. Every single day, I would walk into that classroom, sit down at my desk, and quietly cry. And if it wasn't enough, there was this classmate, a true real-life Regina George, before any of us knew what that meant, who made sure things were a little worse whenever possible. Helena Graham was a Black