Why Teach? - chapter 16

Lauren West came to visit me in my classroom during the first week of February, the only time during the school year she walked into my room.

Lauren West came to visit me in my classroom during the first week of February, the only time during the school year she walked into my room. My last class had let out fifteen minutes before, and I was tipped back in my chair, a leg hanging over the corner of my desk, paging through Great Expectations in search of suitable passages to pull out for test-…