It's All My Lane

Teaching English means showing up for the whole human, not just the comma splice.

Apparently, I’m intense. And that makes me intimidating, or so I’ve been told. It means I haven’t been “put in my place” very often. There was the one time a Louisiana BESE member called me “little lady” in a hearing about the fate of a charter school. A riled administrator cried “bullshit” in response to an explanation I offered. And once, I was told t…