[Sherri Lewis]

I had a teacher make me cry because she asked me a question and didn’t believe my answer. So she called me a liar in front of my class and continues to ask me the same question over and over. Then tells me to sit down at my seat if I wasn’t going to tell her the truth. But I did tell the truth of why I was absent for a week. My mother had surgery for the sixth time and she was glued together where they took out her uterus. I had to take care of my younger siblings while my mother was bed fast because my dad was working daytime shift at the plant. I was in fifth grade when this happened and it was the first couple months of school. After that, I couldn’t approach people or talk in front of a class clear into college. I didn’t think I was going to be a teacher because of my fear. But I did overcome it in time.