From the Trenches: Scarlett’s Sin

MBDGOWI EC031Way back when, back when  I started out in my career as an Educational Professional, I could be found slogging away in an inner-city middle school, attempting each day, in my own little way, to elevate the minds of the squirmy and squirrely little 8th-graders entrusted to my care.  I run into one or two of them every or so, now all shiny and grown up, and the fact that they are not drooling and picking at scabs tells me that I at least didn’t completely injure their fragile adolescent psyches.  Too much.

Of course, there are the ones I don’t run into, but let’s move on, shall we?

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