Deborah Cox

Instructor, Milton High School

ALL POINTS BULLETIN FOR......

Deborah Cox: Future NEH Fellow at University of Berkeley

AT LARGE: One desperately exhausted (it's the end of the school year) Ninth Grade and Eleventh Grade English teacher who daily attempts to elucidate meaning out of school-reluctant adolescents in Alpharetta, GA (a small suburb of Atlanta.)

LAST SEEN: At Milton High School tearing at breakneck speed out of the teacher parking lot to Kennesaw State University to prepare for an exciting summer at Berkeley, leaving behind bewildered students who ask, "But Ms. Cox.... What about the Works Cited Page?" and "Can I still exempt the exam if I do MORE extra credit?"

MODUS OPERANDI: Traded in two undergraduate degrees in English and Secondary Education AND a former (relatively) organized briefcase, uncluttered desk, and unblemished, rosy look at teaching..... for three jumbo Quicktrip coffees, green pens, frayed hall passes, and a stack of "papers-to-grade" that would stun a small child, not to mention "hot and heavy Friday night date notes" and a variety of creative responses to "Do I really have to read this?? There MUST be Cliff Notes."

BACKGROUND:

*B.A. in English from Brock University from Ontario, Canada *B.S. in Secondary English Education from Kennesaw StateUniversity *Currently enrolled in the Masters of Professional Writing Program at Kennesaw, with a major in Composition and Rhetoric and a minor in Creative Writing

OTHER CRIME SCENES:

*Spent most of formative years in various parts of Canada: B.C., Saskatchewan, and Ontario *Currently resides in Atlanta and loves to frequent restaurants, used book stores, and coffee shops *Somewhere in between teaching, sandwiches a personal life that involves running, reading (HA!! There's the ultimate English teacher irony), sporadic traveling, and spending time with husband and friends.

IF YOU SEE THIS PERSON: Return her immediately; her grades are due this week and her principal needs another club sponsor.

WARNING: "Disarmed" and Dangerous. Proceed with extreme caution. Subject is volatile at this time of year.

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