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

courtyard was quiet at four in the afternoon. The autumn sun was low in the sky, casting long, thin shadows across the brick pathways and the dried grass.

The air had grown colder, carrying the sharp scent of dry leaves and the faint exhaust of the last school buses leaving the grounds. I stood near the brick planter, watching the wind stir the fallen continue reading …