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USA250 Journal Project
Personal Chronicle: July 4, 2025 – July 5, 2026
A gift for reflection. A record of now. A story for what’s next.
📝 “Who am I?”
I’m Edith Langor.
A teacher. A builder. A witness.
I’ve taught long enough to know when a student is disappearing. I’ve also learned how to leave the light on until they find their way back.
I am not the kind who gets teacher-of-the-year plaques. I don’t do bake sales. I don’t chaperone dances. But I show up. I remember. I notice.
I believe that ethics should be part of every programming language. I believe that classrooms are battlefields no one writes poems about.
I’ve stopped apologizing for being difficult. Or different. Or disappointing to people who want silence in the face of harm.
I don’t yell. I don’t cry. I don’t leave.
I just stay.
And I teach.
📝 “How did I get here?”
I got here through detours.
I studied computer science when I was the only woman in the room. I took jobs writing backend code for companies whose names you’d now call evil. I left when I realized I was fixing bugs in systems designed to erase people.
I found my way into teaching like someone stumbles into shelter during a storm.
I’ve taught in classrooms with broken projectors, outdated textbooks, and students who know more than their parents want them to.
I’ve watched kids fall apart quietly. I’ve watched others rise with fire. And I’ve learned that sometimes, the best thing you can give a young person isn’t information—it’s belief.
I’ve made peace with being expendable in a system that needs changing. But I will not go quietly.
I got here through small revolutions. Through the courage of students like Eli. Through the knowledge that someone, somewhere, has to keep showing up.
Even when it’s hard.
Especially then.
Friends & Associates
Eli Roth – Student.
