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I feel like I’m entering prison,” local author M. Clabeaux writes of arriving at his first teaching job, “unsure if I’m warden or inmate.” The next nine months, however, leave little doubt in this reader’s mind that the latter would be a more accurate assessment. Through a series of classroom vignettes, My First Year in Purgatory paints a vivid portrait of an embattled teacher on the front lines of urban public education…right here in Buffalo.
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