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As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted

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Dan Simmons
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: April 4
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Peoria
Illinois
Wanted
Average
Much
Pretty
Graders
Long
Create
Sixth
Years
Teach
District
Alone
Curriculum
Five
Showed
Whatever
Principal
Left
Improvement

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