188 Days

188 days. That’s the length of the school year, and Wilbert Lawrence has to manage every one of them. Lawrence is almost fifty, and he is feeling the effects of every year. He knows he will survive, and he knows he’ll get by somehow. But this year is going to be tough. Lawrence has reluctantly taken a leadership position at Richmond High School. He will be charged with solving the problems of veteran and new teachers, in addition to helping a new principal understand what he has gotten into. Lawrence will break up fights, console students who lost family to violence, support veteran teachers who are close to burning out, and help young teachers understand that teaching is not like they saw on the movies. He may also discover he is exactly what his school needs. This autobiographical novel is based on the author’s decade of experience teaching. The story is fiction. Many of the events are fact. You, the reader, will learn what it is like to work in a place like Richmond High School, where everything but trouble is in short supply but where some special people make it work anyway.