The other day I was talking with an elderly man while we were both waiting at the garage for our tires to be fixed. He told me his son is a football coach and a teacher—I don’t know what subject he teaches. He worked at a charter school for years until it went under recently. So a little while ago he worked as a substitute at a regular public school for a week. A public school here in Austin in what’s considered a good neighborhood, so it’s a reasonably well-rated school. Continue reading
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Part one of a trilogy about the 20th century. Everything you ever learned (or should have) about WWI, the Russian Revolution, workers' rights, women's rights, etc., woven together in a delicious novel.














