Jo becoming close to teachers really showed what she was made of and could rise over the bronx. We had the journalist teacher who thought Jo could make it into the newspapers but had to leave because of his involvement in drugs at a party.

Here her favorite English teacher i s dying. She really reached her students through books, came from poverty herself and like Mrs. Garrett always said you could live a long life and have nothing to show for it or live a short one teaching multitudes of individuals for the better.