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Class, Coffee, & Confrontation (No Red Pens Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Stef Aden (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Working under an egotistical leader who places blame for all that is wrong on everyone else. Watching as change is enacted to shake up the status quo. Seeing the results of a world where facts don’t matter. Experienced veterans questioning how far to go to oppose the leader and when extreme behavior might be justified.Sound familiar? Political? Could this occur in what was once a haven for freedom and debate?Class, Coffee, & Confrontation takes you inside Bantamville South High where Kassi Stanton, veteran English/Language Arts teacher, struggles with forces that threaten to take down her and public education. The terror of a recurring nightmare before the first day of school is amped up this year when new principal Rikki Parks, with a questionable past in other schools, takes the helm of BS High. A bomb threat, a concerned newspaper photographer, and a love triangle fill out the first week of school.The story follows Kassi as she grapples with these three elements. She teaches students in a school system where data has a higher priority than learning and in a culture where terrorism in the form of bomb threats intrudes on the school building, once considered a safe place. She navigates relationships with colleagues who run the gamut from supportive friends to self-absorbed opportunists. And she deals with administrators who are threatening, incompetent, or both.A series of issues lead Kassi to question remaining in teaching. The school’s safety procedures are questioned by the local SWAT team as counterproductive. During a meeting discussing the weaknesses of the program, one teacher suggests arming the staff. A principal waves her carte blanche from the school board to threaten her staff with transfer or termination if they do not cooperate with her ideas for raising the school’s ranking. Kassi becomes entangled in the romantic relationships and break-ups of teachers from her own English/Language Arts team and a confusing relationship of her own in which she finds herself the victim of a friend she tries to help.The conflicts ramp up when bomb threats are made on three different occasions. At the same time, Principal Parks continues to create an environment of fear, and Kassi sees similarities to characters in literature like Odysseus and Cyclops in The Odyssey. She steps forward to question the administrator’s treatment of her staff and suggest she is deflating the morale and confidence of new and veteran teachers by ignoring facts. When Parks leaves pink slips in the mailboxes of all nontenured teachers on the day they return from Spring Break, Kassi struggles with a dilemma: help them or get out. Finally, she deals with betrayal. A colleague whom she supported and helped in avoiding an administrative reprimand sullies Kassi’s reputation when she is caught breaking the law.When a new teacher she is mentoring stands up to an administrator over a questionable evaluation, Kassi takes up the cause to rid the school of the overbearing Parks’ administration by capitalizing on her knowledge of the world of fiction. Inspired by unforgettable characters and events in lit class favorites The Odyssey, Romeo and Juliet, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, and others, she concocts a plan to help the new teachers and set up Parks.A promising job interview serves as a distraction as she bides her time before activating her plan to derail the principal. It hinges on Parks’ desire to pad her resumé by getting a not-so-academically successful football player into a Division One university and on the incompetence of a vice-principal.Events work in her favor until both Kassi and Parks zero in on the perpetrator of the bomb threats. Bullied, beleaguered, betrayed. Kassi must decide where her loyalties lie.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B46DWJ5Y
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 14, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 977 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 250 pages
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Stef Aden is a Jersey girl – born, raised, and still living in New Jersey. For thirty-five years, she taught high school English in public schools. She created the No Red Pens Series. The first book in the series, “Class, Coffee, & Confrontation,” (2017), introduces teacher Kassi Stanton, aka literary superhero CanonBel. The second bookin the series, “Vice & Voice,” (2020) originally published as "Extra Duty Plays,"continues this series. The third book, "Memories & Messes," (2023), takes Kassi out of school and into a new career as a writer of memoirs for senior citizens.

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Christopher Cosma
4.0 out of 5 stars Do you appreciate Classic Literature's place in modern experience? So does Mrs. Kassie Stanton -- High School English Teacher
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I know the author, so full disclosure is in play. This is a well written and readable first novel about a female High School English teacher/Department Team Leader, by a retired High School English teacher who's inspirations are Janet Evanovich and Sue Grafton. Stef Aden actually experienced versions of the events in this story, and she succeeds in conveying the humor and pathos of real-life teaching to the reader, as well as crafting a set of characters and settings that she hopes you would like to get to know better. Stef also hopes to continue their adventures in a world where literature mirrors reality, and "you can't make this (stuff) up!"
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