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This is not what I signed up for! I realized this when I heard the screaming in my classroom for the first time. I was 20 years old and teaching at a junior high school in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Most of the students were bigger than me and some looked as old as I did. “He’s going to kill her!” A large boy was chasing a girl around the room, somehow avoiding the desks with other seated students as he ran. Unbelievably he had a window pole in his hands. (A window pole is a large wooden implement with a brass hook at the end of it. It was ...
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