Throughout my teaching career colleagues always stated that I would burn out.  Most of them are all cinders now and I am still going strong.

Of course there were times where I got really down and felt like quitting but I stayed the course because I was always concerned about the students. 

It was not easy teaching in the inner city where we had poor leadership, few supplies, little parent support and constant change of staff. We also had to contend with all the neighborhood problems: drugs, gangs, crime on a daily basis in East New York - Brooklyn which was at the time the Homicide Capital of New York City.

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