Your Job is to Teach

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Ms. Amster was my 7th grade Reading and Writing teacher. I don’t remember the first day of school or the last day of my 7th-grade year. In fact, all I remember is Ms. Amster’s exasperation with everything we did. I use the term “We” to capture the small, Black population in our rural, Central Texas town. To me, it seemed that if we even breathed in too deeply, she would lose it.