But beyond these issues that need to be top of mind for everyone, there is the process of writing about issues, writing about real people, and writing about actual lives. Writing about big issues takes courage and integrity, qualities Michelle exemplifies. There is still so much work to be done in the American South to improve the lives of so many who live there. It kept me up at night and I'm still thinking about it months after reading Michelle and Patrick's story. This book is moving, riveting, and essential all at once. She wrote Reading With Patrick about this experience. Michelle set aside a new job to return to Arkansas and spend time with Patrick during visitation hours and continue teaching him as he awaited trial. Several years later, she got the call that Patrick, one of her most transformed students, had gotten in a fight outside his home and someone had been killed in the fray. But at the end of her term at Teach for America, she moved away to attend Harvard. Her time there was transformative, both for Michelle and her students. She taught in a school that focused on teaching underserved youth who had been expelled from other schools. Michelle Kuo got a call one day, telling her that her favorite student had been arrested.Īfter college, Michelle Kuo joined Teach for America and moved to the Arkansas Delta.
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