MOLLY BECK
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It’s third period at Jefferson Middle School and language arts teacher Jay Brazeau asks his seventh-grade students to turn to Chapter 12 in Rosa Parks’ autobiography. In a nearby classroom, math teacher Kelly O’Malley is asking her students to quiet down.
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