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As a writer and a 2008 retired American high school English educator, I am appalled when I witness the deterioration of our public school systems in the USA. Many of our students are graduating from high school unprepared to enter college or technical schools or to get a job with a salary large enough to support themselves. With the amount of money spent in our schools, the USA should have the best educational systems in the world, but sadly we…..
As a high school Language Arts and English teacher for thirty-seven years in American public schools, I have taught many courses in all types of writing—short stories, dramas, poems, research papers, essays, and other expository forms. I have evaluated thousands of student compositions and written projects, but I never really had the time to sit down and write myself until after my retirement in May 2008. At first, I only wrote a few personal essays about my life for my…..