Seaman’s Colleague Sandra Strauss Schwartz, M.A. Ed letter to Gov. Snyder

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While planning and teaching our Native American unit, there were a number of crafts we planned to make with the kids that required branches and sticks from trees. I remember Nancy laughing as she remarked on the abundance of twigs and branches she could bring in from her yard. She said that she did all the yard work at home and used a hatchet to cut down branches, etc. She did, in fact, bring in bags of twigs for our class projects.

There were other times when Nancy would mention in conversation that she had been drywalling over the weekend. I know now that she was repairing the damage caused by Bob’s temper outbursts. It kind of became a standing joke between us that there was nothing Nancy couldn’t do. Nancy made everything look beautiful. Her classroom was a showpiece of elementary school decor.

Sandra Strauss Schwartz, M.S. Ed letter to Gov. Snyder