My Story: Or How I Managed to Survive Fifty-Six Years Teaching High School

Don Humphrey began teaching in 1955, and he didn’t call it quits until 2010. By then, he was approaching his seventy-seventh birthday, and he’d seen it all—and in this memoir, he looks back at what it’s been like to be a teacher throughout the years. When he first started, beginning teachers were very much on their own. If they were given any help at all, it was done so grudgingly by teachers who felt that they were overworked. One had to sink or swim. One of his earlier experiments for a s...