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                    ‘I Was Going to Leave the Classroom’ |  
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                    Abie Vang, a program support teacher in Wisconsin, had a plan to exit the profession after a few years. Thanks largely to her union, she discovered she could affect the kind of change she wanted to make by staying. |  
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