“Teaching was tenable when I was a 22-year-old single renter. It no longer works when I have a family and a mortgage. I’m not looking to have a crazy affluent lifestyle over here. But the fact is, I can only afford to live in the neighborhood where I teach because I’m married.”
‘I’m sick of getting dinged for test scores when my students don’t have food at home, or clothes that fit. I’m so sick of it, that I’m leaving the field.’
‘I’m going to be honest with you guys, I didn’t think I could do it.’ Single mom graduates Harvard, goes from ‘anomaly to statistic to example’
“Evelyn, they said that because of you I wouldn’t be able to do this. Just know that I did this BECAUSE OF YOU.”