October 2014

Teacher Gets Schooled

The story Billy was about to share with the class would stay with his teacher for years

Back in the early ’80s, my drinking was slowly destroying my teaching career—and me. Many Sunday evenings, I’d try to drink just enough to dull the emotional pain, but not to the point where I’d become too much of a nervous and hungover wreck to teach the 6th graders on Monday morning.

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