The Day My Daughter Told the Doctor to Let Me Go While I Lay There Unable to Speak

Oregon, in the schools with the highest need and the lowest resources. The kind of children I had spent my career teaching. The kind of children who grew up knowing that words mattered, that stories mattered, that the ability to read a sentence and understand it was a form of power no one could take from you.

Thomas would have approved. He had always continue reading …