Milton Reed, former San Francisco Fireman, starts a new job teaching English in the Haight Ashbury District's ghetto High School. Recently divorced and the father of two children, he challenges both students and his fellow teachers to honor free speech and academic freedom. Surrounded by drugs and revolution, Milton helps start a student underground newspaper that causes turmoil in the school and death to one of his students by the end of the semester as Milton struggles to juggle freedom and responsibility while falling in love with one of his fellow teachers at the school. R-E-S-P-E-C-T is an upbeat love story, humorous and wise, that pulses with the rhythms, language, and ideals of the violently changing times.
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T. Mike Walker graduated in 1962 from San Francisco State College with an MA in Language Arts/Creative Writing. He taught full-time at SF State from 1962-65., Taught High School in San Francisco from 1967-68. Taught Writing at Cabrillo Community College in Santa Cruz from 1968-1998. Worked as a San Francisco Policeman from 1960-1962. Published in many West Coast publications, including ETC. magazine of General Semantics, San Francisco Magazine, Chrysalis Review, Environmental Quarterly, Yoga Journal, San Jose Mercury, Nugget Magazine, Brides Magazine, etc. Won Yale Younger Poets Honorable Mention in 1962 for excerpt from Voices From The Bottom of the World, A Policeman's Journal, a novel published by Grove Press in 1970.
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A fun stream of consciousness ride set in SF. Completely enjoyable and funny.
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