I knew the school was on intensive care. . . . I felt we did what we had to do.
There needed to be some radical change right away. That was really hard;
at least it was for me. . . . I would describe it as feeling like I was headed
down the highway at seventy miles an hour and I was expected to leap
out of the car into another car going another way at seventy miles an hour
(personal communication, teacher A, 2006).