You see them every day, yet you rarely know they exist���faceless people leading quietly desperate lives. Unremarkable, they merge with the background camouflaged by their own colorless existence. They come and go, unnoticed by society at large.

As a public educator for 38 years, I saw a number of students who fit this description. Often lonely and friendless, they find it hard to fit in. Such students drift from grade to grade, campus to campus, simply going with the flow like driftwood