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I am not sure which chapter this ought to be but it will be a great one in the book you must write!
I absolutely loved reading this since from 63-70 I was tucked away in a convent having a different kind of "high" experience. But the music and the politics seeped in even to our lives. After I survived ( barely-- being an extrovert! ) a very cloistered novitiate year I emerged into the mid- 60's in a social justice way. Was secretary of the NAACP in our rural area in Florida, worked with farmwork…
I want to be sure that my put-down of a large chunk of the teaching profession does not include teachers like you - and the other ones who come here - if I had been in your classes, my view of the world would be different.
I had several great elementary school teachers. One of them, I looked up nearly three decades after the last time I'd seen her, when I was in elementary school. We met at grand central station. Almost immediately, it was like old friends picking up from where we'd left off. Alas, she died two years later of breast cancer that she'd had at that point for a decade, at 54.