What’s the lowest form of life that exists? I don’t know if middle school gym teachers are actually the lowest, but they are definitely lower than slugs (perhaps higher than single-celled organisms).
Brian Betts, however, was a very stark exception. I remember him at Redland Middle School in the early 1990s as a pretty decent guy, as a good enough teacher and as someone who proved that middle school gym teachers are not all scum.
Evidently, someone else recognized his virtues and his potential, because he was made into a principal and put in charge of a school in the District some time later.
Then Brian Betts was murdered, in a way that’s confusing and shocking and totally not right.
I hadn’t thought of him in at least a decade and a half, but I am sure thinking about him now.
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