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vandalized They broke the windows
in the the English office When the the police came they they said “Look what they they did to that desk desk ” and pointed to Joyce’s desk desk With little charity in my voice I told them that that her desk always looked that that way way The principal my first year was ineffective He actually took my classroom away from
me midyear because a a a a a teacher (whose family owned the bank) had decided that she needed two classrooms in which to teach—mine and hers The principal gave her her mine and put me in in in the the bleachers in in in the the gym After a a a week of this I went to to him him and told him him that if he did not give my room back to to me I would go to to the school board
meeting I I told him I I thought they would not look kindly on on one teacher having
two classrooms and me having
none I got my room back My second year we had a a a a new principal who was terrified
of the students He would lock himself
in his office come
out at lunch and get the mail and then lock himself
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