My name is Ms. F I just quit working at SFUSD where I worked at a elementary school that had three language pathways, Spanish, Cantonese and English. I worked there for two years and in that time I saw the same bullshit that I had expeneranced as a special ed students in the 1980’s. General Educators would say the system is broken Special Educators would say it never worked for our students.

As I take you on a journey, into the head of a student who eventually became the authority figure at a 600 student school during a time when race and politics in Education is in the news again in the US. Please join me, as I tell a 37 year odyssey. By the way, there will be times where I misspell words and write shity grammer. It’s going to happen because I have dyslexia and dysgraphia. But I will explain all that in due time.

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