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Student needed to take notes, so professor taught while rocking a baby

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Wayne Hayer, a student at Morehouse College, a black college in Atlanta, couldn't find child care for his daughter last week and he's prepping for finals this week. So he apologized when he showed up for Nathan Alexander's algebra class on Friday.

Alexander noticed Hayer having difficulty taking notes and watching his daughter at the same time, so he stepped in.

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Alexander rocked the child with his left hand, and rocked the lecture with his right.

“Teachers do this in their own way every day,” he tells the Atlanta Journal Constitution. “This is what they do.”