A Keeper of Stories

The vault of a high school English teacher

Photo by Reuben Juarez on Unsplash

I have been teaching for 16 years. This year, as I sat in the back of a Baptist church in Detroit at a funeral for a student’s mother, I thought about all the tragedies I have witnessed as a teacher. This Pastor invited my student to wail as the congregation supported her. It was heart-wrenching and beautiful, and I thought we all could use more supported…