“My sister's a social worker in one of the neighboring districts and so it's just what we talk about, and I got cousins that [are in schools], friends.”
“Now in my new position, I'm seeing six or seven different classes a day and so I'm not in my own thing. I do see people. I used to do it to compare and learn—what are they doing?”
“I have a number of friends that are in education. I have a group chat that's pretty much daily, with whatever we're talking about, with seven or eight guys, and six of them are in a school building every day—myself included—and the other two are are not in a school building, but are working with youth in a different way. So it's part of the conversation. We have the same breaks. We talk about the same things. We laugh and we share stories [and we give each other ideas.]“