Why I’m Using my Mid-70s to Write to You About All of Us

And what we can do together to make a better future.

I declared in second grade that I wanted to be a teacher and then a principal. That was in 1956-57.

Everyone thought that was fine.

When I took the National Teachers Exam screening test in my last year of college, I scored so high that I was confused about what such a score would mean for who else was going into teaching.