Nancy Hanks was standing in an elevator, her eyes fixed on her cellphone, when the doors opened onto a familiar face. It was one of her former students, a boy she had expelled from the school she led in one of Chicago’s toughest neighborhoods.
She was flooded with fear. What had become of the student’s life? Had her decision helped set him on a path toward failure?
She also was flooded with regret. Why had she kicked him out of school? She could have chosen a different path, and a more courageous one, she said, recalling the encounter in a speech last month in Washington at the 25th anniversary summit for Teach for America.
[For more of this story, written by Emma Brown, go to https://www.washingtonpost.com...roach-to-discipline/]
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