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A Corrie Poem: Books I Never Wanted

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There are books I never wanted,

and books I never read.

There are words I wish

I’d written,

and words I never knew.

Somehow every story

leads me back to you.

It ended as a story

that I never wanted

from a book I never knew.

By R.A. Bridges

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They say teacher turn over is high right now, and many teachers will leave the profession in five years or less. I will enter my seventh year as a full-time teacher, and my 12th year in education after I'd started as a sub and teacher assistant. I was the student in the 1990s you did not want in your classroom because I was diagnosed with ADHD and did not know how to socialize with other kids. I was due to be tested for autism, but this was considered an ostracizing experience for a child then, especially a girl. I am a third generation teacher and author of seventeen creative works.

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