In response to a colleague who teaches high school:

Something rotten there is in a hallway of fear. Principals without principles leave hallways stinking, no matter the diligence of janitors. In schools so principaled the cafeteria, the parking lot, the bathrooms have the same faint smell.

In such a school the good teachers offer sanctuary in their fresh air focus on healthy minds and safe bodies. The smells are book and pencil and paper and marker and clean floor wax unmarked by scuffle or atmospheric taint.

In a bad school, a sick school, the teacher takes and makes sanctuary in doing the good work.