Tag: cleaning

It was from Mrs. Knibb, our middle-school health teacher, that my classmates and I first learned about drugs. We knew drugs existed beforehand, of course – we were harangued by various figures that we should say “no” to them from the time we were very young. Local cops brought puppets to our classroom to warn us, as did motivational speakers whose journeys through addiction, gang-related homicides, and prison revenge killings planted oddly specific lessons in our developing minds… (continued)