Teaching

"Teachers do so much more than people ever see."

I am a sixty-five-year-old college professor standing in front of a class of seniors when my lecture suddenly veers wildly off course and I find myself talking about Irene McKee, my fifth-grade teacher. Here's what I tell them.

She says she felt singled out by the school administration for her religion and ethnicity.

It will become a life-changing lesson.

"I think if I had had the support last year, I believe I would have been a better teacher."