UM Graduate Katelin Jarvie Refuses To Let Epilepsy Foil Teaching Dream

Graduate Refuses To Let Epilepsy Interfere With Her Dream Of Teaching

Obviously, the last thing Katelin Jarvie wants to do is traumatize children.

The 24-year-old aspires to teach, after all.

Yet, that was precisely the issue for some university administrators who were concerned about Jarvie, who is diagnosed with epilepsy, earning a degree in elementary education. They worried about children witnessing their teacher having a seizure.

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