Why I had to leave DU and the long journey back. My first post in nine years.

[Teacher of the Year]

86. It was written order! They handed me a copy of it and asked me to sign that I had read it.

My hands were shaking, but I signed it. I needed my copy and that was the only way I was going to get it.

None of those requirements were legal. It got a whole lot worse than that, believe me. But...I kind oof knew I had won when they handed me this list of rules. I brought them my stack of mail the very next day. At that point I WANTED them too open my mail. In my stack was a thank you letter for a meeting with Hillary Clinton and another thank you for a meeting with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

I remember thinking, "Please open the letter to the sitting Secretary of Education, a Cabinet member of the United States government and a past First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State of the United States.Please open those letters first."

I was disgusted but sometimes you have to hand people the rope they are willing to hang themselves with.