The protagonist of Marquis's offbeat first novel is a 26-year-old teacher and perpetual wet blanket, always on the lookout for a fresh start and surrounded by enough sadness to propel her from San Francisco to Alaska and back.
"Those who persist in treating teachers as perpetual victims risk infantilising the profession and depressing recruitment.
Individuals who persist in treating teachers as "perpetual victims" risk "infantilising the profession and depressing recruitment", he insisted.
Teacher, editor, and perpetual student of art history, she completed the manuscript of her father, Carlos Baker, and arranged for its posthumous publication as "Emerson Among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait".
For the teachers, the students are their only hope for an end to perpetual war, and for the children, the teachers are their constant reassurance and guidance that it is okay, in fact it is commendable, to behave in a counter-culture way.
He's a perpetual student who is now becoming a teacher.
Their oldest daughter was living as a victim of perpetual domestic violence, and their youngest daughter, a teacher, a girls' basketball coach, and a role model for scores of inner city youth, was living under the same roof.
In history classes, his teachers spent most of the time on the country's perpetual struggle against Ethiopia.
"The goals of the teachers union radicals.... are student indoctrination, social upheaval and perpetual grievance-mongering in pursuit of bigger government and spending without restraint".
Her mouth pursed in a sour grimace, her brow furrowed in a perpetual scowl, she delights in her reputation for inspiring terror in children and teachers alike.
