Minnesota Teachers Gathered to Review a Twelve Thousand Dollar School Board Decision

piled high to his left.

“Clara,” he said, his voice hushed to a whisper that barely carried across the empty tables. “Thank goodness you answered my messages.”

“You sent three separate notes to my kitchen phone before eight, Robert,” I said, remaining standing near the end of the table. “What is so urgent?”

He took off his wire-rimmed glasses and began continue reading …