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As school closes for Christmas, a teacher doing her best in a failing and chaotic high school is knocked down by an abusive student and locked into a Biology storage closet. As the room has a sink and some food stored for lunches and prep periods, she is only in danger of spending two horrible weeks dieting in a cold room with no toilet or bed or much else beyond obsolete books and broken equipment. Waiting and hoping for rescue, she creates order and routines, finds ways to make the best of her time and solitude, and ponders her life and career. The student had said he would claim self defense, say that she had demanded sex in exchange for a passing grade. That charge, strange given that he was a burly 18 year old skinhead and football player with a stud's reputation, makes the news when she's finally rescued. The public and school officials are quick to blame her, for incompetence if not for the sex charge, although she also tells her side, files a police complaint, and tries to get union help. Even her daughter and boyfriend, though on her side and sure she is innocent, seem to wonder how she let such a thing happen. The event changes her life in many ways. This story of a teacher unfairly blamed for a violent incident in which she's really the victim is symbolic of the way in which capable teachers who struggle to help students in the most difficult schools sacrifice their reputations, as people assume good teachers are all in good schools. It is an important story in these times when so many teachers, both excellent and mediocre, are losing jobs if their students aren't achievers. The author is a retired Chicago teacher.
About the Author: The author has an M.A. in creative writing from the University of Illinois and for years taught English, writing, and ESL part time, at the college level, online and at various community colleges. She also spent many years in Chicago schools, first in self-contained elementary school classrooms and then in high schools, teaching English, environmental science, and biology in both regular and special ed classrooms. She is now retired and living in Wisconsin.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781450506878
  • Publisher: Createspace
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 203 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1450506879
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jan 2010
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 170
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 399 gr

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