Many thanks for this article, Joanna. And, Debbie Cook (who was a long-term sub at my high school), if you’re reading this, thank you for your kind refusal of my request to be able to see you outside of school as my junior year was ending back in 1973.
I knew you were leaving my school as well, and so I thought no harm in asking what I did ask. I guess you knew what’s been articulated in this post; I don’t know if it was part of the teaching curriculum back then (it ought to be so now) or whether it was just something that you, and no doubt many other ‘hot’ young women teaching high school, knew intuitively.
Again, belated thanks for turning me down and for the gentle way you did so.