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

smelling of rubbing alcohol and fresh laundry. Sarah Jenkins was sitting on a low stool, counting blue boxes of adhesive bandages and stacking them on a metal utility shelf.

“He was not even in the building on Tuesday,” Sarah said, not looking up as she marked a tally on her blue plastic clipboard.

“Who was not here?” I asked, sitting on the edge of continue reading …