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The school day was less than an hour old, but already a fidgety Aydyrus Abdirahman found it impossible to sit still. So Marcus Freeman, a first-year assistant principal at Ramsey Middle School, met the seventh-grader at a stairwell for an “energy break.”
As Freeman stood atop the stairs, iPhone stopwatch in hand, Aydyrus scrambled up and down the steps. After a minute of running, Freeman walked a quieter, calmer Aydyrus back to class.
“It’s our thing,” the former professional football player said of the relationship he’s formed with the high-energy boy. “Whatever it takes.”
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