This paper highlights the challenges of assessing student depression in sensitive settings such as special education settings and highlights the limitations of standardized questionnaires and automated methods, which fail to fully reflect students' true circumstances. Specifically, it criticizes the overlooking of individualized insights stemming from teachers' empathic connections and proposes Human Empathy as Encoder (HEAE), a novel framework that integrates teachers' empathic abilities into AI. HEAE integrates students' narrative texts with a nine-dimensional "empathy vector" (EV) derived by the teacher based on the PHQ-9 framework, thereby incorporating structured empathic insights into AI inputs in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human judgment. Experimental results demonstrate an accuracy of 82.74% in seven-level severity classification, suggesting a direction for responsible and ethical affective computing.