Students across the state are heading back to school this week, but their teachers have been prepping classrooms and attending workshops for the past couple of weeks.
In the midst of all the preparation, teachers at U-32 Middle and High school in East Montpelier were treated to a performance by spoken word poet Taylor Mali. Mali used to be a teacher himself, before taking up slam poetry.
VPR’s Sarah Ashworth attended the performance and brought back this poem.