Posts by Elizabeth Janeczko — Guest Contributor

Elizabeth Janeczko has been teaching for ten years in the DC area, with the exception of the year she spent in Rwanda. She came to DC in 2003 and has made the city her home since then. She currently lives in Petworth.

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  “What’s a white bitch like you doing in a school like this?”

  EducationBy Elizabeth Janeczko (Guest Contributor) March 30, 2017 55

  That was the first interview question I remember being asked for the first job I would accept as a high school teacher. Ten years after that interview, my willingness to put up with the indignities of being a teacher in some of DC’s toughest schools has worn me down and pushed me away from the profession. I would never exchange the ten years I have spent in the classroom for anything else, but I must admit that, for me, the burden of teaching has finally caught up with me.  Keep reading…