As a teacher in Baltimore City schools for 10 years, I’ve worked, alongside my students, under sometimes horrible conditions.

I’ve taught in rooms that didn’t have doors, rooms that didn’t have windows. Unheated rooms where fingers were so frozen that pencils became hard to hold.

A rat chewed holes in the wall of my last school building. Once I was forced to throw away dozens of brand-new puppets because they were full of mouse droppings.

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