This recent decision to eliminate Affirmative Action enrages me as a person who has taught for decades and understands the struggle to survive, never mind matriculate in a decent college, as well as any privileged white person can.
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I’ve quit many things, jobs, addictions, husbands, smoking, drugs, self-hatred, countries, and friends. I quit drinking at 26, left a well-paid job with New Jersey Bell telephone at twenty-three, divorced two husbands, quit several cities sometimes willingly, sometimes not; San Francisco, Hoboken, Brooklyn, New York, London, Dallas, and, recently, Chicago.
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For nearly four months in 2014, I was an English teacher at a private all-girl Emirate high school. The experience was astonishing. This is a lightly fictionalized account of my first month of teaching.
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