“As a young teacher, I am in $70,000 of school loan debt after finishing my bachelor’s and master’s degree. I had 5 years of experience and a master’s and was making $47,000, and as the primary income in my household, we were living paycheck to paycheck.”
By LJ Herman -
“Gradually, I started talking to the students. We told them, ‘What you do, makes you what you are’. Jenny and I have been married for over sixty years now, and we plan to work with the kids as long as we are able.”
By LJ Herman -
“I decided to write Peyton a letter before he left. I needed to get out all of the things I wanted to say to him – the good and the bad. I’m sorry we took the easy way out. I wish we would have fought harder for you.”
By Eliza Murphy -
“I was feeling pretty jaded this morning as two different sets of parents at Walmart stopped me in the school supplies aisle to complain about how much they had to get their kids this year. ‘This is just ridiculous. I don’t know how these teachers think we are suppose to get all this stuff.'”
By LJ Herman -
“She was encouraging me! Giving me little neck massages when she saw I was struggling. She made up songs for us to sing. She sang a song when I was really sweating.”
By LJ Herman -
“Dear Ms. Befort, English with you is like a roller coaster. Sometimes I want to be eaten alive by lions. But nothing’s perfect, right?”
By Eliza Murphy -
“Not all of you are going to agree with what I’ve written. Some of you will be downright mad after you read it.”
By Eliza Murphy -
“Miles and I will ride to graduation together, put our caps and gowns on together, march in together, march out together, and begin chapter two of his life.”
By Eliza Murphy -
“I have grown up and gone to school my whole life with people who basically look like me, think like me and believe the same things I believe, and that’s not the real world.”
By Eliza Murphy -
“Maybe someday we will wake up and realize a single test score doesn’t show the entire picture.”
By LJ Herman -
