Spirit Matters: High school English teachers taught more than language

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I first encountered Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” as a sophomore in high school. My Poetry and Drama teacher, Mrs. Parsons, read it to us in her thick New England accent. She was a lover of the written word and a model of discipline.

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