Thoughts?
Sophomore year I stopped raising my hand. You never asked me why. You just started writing "thoughts?" in the margin of my labs until I started answering in writing. I answered for two years.
— Alina Petrov · former student
Opening
Made with Preserve
A Preserve made for you
Vik
my chemistry teacher
He built a system for catching kids without ever making a kid feel caught.
3 chapters3 min read
Made with love by Alina
At lunch
You caught me cheating and made me sit the same test again at lunch. You never told anyone, and you never brought it up again. Not even when you wrote my recommendation letter.
— Marcus Bell · former student
The snack drawer
Twenty-two years in the room next door. He keeps a drawer of granola bars and tells the kids it's his snack drawer. Vik is diabetic. It has never once been his snack drawer.
— Denise Alvarez · teacher next door
Hypothesis: no
You taught me that being wrong wasn't the same thing as failing.
— Alina Petrov · former student
Voice note — kept private in this public example. Voice notes play in a real Preserve.
A voice note from Marcus
Which is your fault
— Marcus Bell · former student
Thirty-one years in the same room. We are the ones who got to be in it. Thank you, Mr. Iyer.