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t school we had two English teachers, and they were very different. This was a private, single-sex high school in Los Angeles in the early Nine- ties. Wheeler was the head of the department, having displaced Boyd, who was on probation for unknown reasons— although there were rumors having to do with alcohol and ab- sences. (The rumors about Wheeler— he’d written on Katy G.’s term paper that he couldn’t concentrate on her thesis because of the way she crossed her legs in class; he’d been seen in a bar off Sunset with Liz S.— either hadn’t reached the administration or didn’t have the same seriousness.) Wheeler’s promotion at Boyd’s expense didn’t ap- pear to have gotten in the way …