It’s a fall day in 1978 at Metro Alternative High School in Cedar Rapids where I teach. I’m standing outside the front door of our first home, the old firehouse, with Rick and Carolyn and Vern. We’re handing out the newspapers to the students as they enter when we see Jake, crossing the street carrying… Continue reading The Homeless Ferret
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Metro High School in 1978
You enter the building from the parking lot. It is 3:30 and all the students have gone home leaving behind them the smell of stale cigarette smoke and pachouli. You hear Vern, the building engineer, downstairs talking. Vern has somebody trapped in conversation and it will be at least twenty minutes before his target starts to back… Continue reading Metro High School in 1978