December 1, 2006

High-School Teachers Are Teachers, Too

By CAROLYN ALESSIO

Mentioning you're a high-school English teacher in an academic crowd can be like confessing to a love of Red Lobster at a gourmet convention. It suggests you may not have read a novel since the publication of The Catcher in the Rye, and the only critical theory you've ever heard of is the close reading so disdained by postmodernism.

I'm exaggerating, of course, and probably a bit paranoid, but teaching high school after four years as a university lecturer, I've felt that frisson of

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