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Melissa Ostrom is the author of The Beloved Wild and other writing

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Why Are You Doing This? And for Whom?

April 6, 2018 By Melissa Ostrom

Melissa Ostrom Book SigningI’m keeping the teacher’s name to myself, but I’ll tell you this: I liked him. We all liked him. Cheerful, energetic, creative, funny, kind: there was a lot to like.

But on one particular day, our teacher did not like us.

I don’t remember the season, the time of the school day, or what grade I was in, though I think it was seventh. I don’t even remember the subject. But I remember, on this unfortunate occasion, how displeasure reddened the teacher’s face. He paced in front of our neat rows of desks, papers scrunched in his fist at his side. Those papers were our tests, the examination we’d all—every single one of us—bombed.

He halted and whirled around to fix his frustrated gaze on a kid in the front. “Did you study?”

“Um…no,” the student mumbled.

“What about you?” he barked at the next student. “Did you study?” [Read more…] about Why Are You Doing This? And for Whom?

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