Brandi Bonner is a high school English teacher at Riverview, an alternative school, where she teaches all levels of English to students in grades 9 through 12. With a passion for working with underserved and overlooked populations, Brandi emphasizes the importance of offering support and second chances to students who have been written off by the traditional school system.

Brandi Quotes:

• "We have one English teacher and that would be myself, one history teacher, one math teacher... and we are expected to cover all the needs of our students.

• "I love teaching, I love coaching, instructing to the very people that need it the most, that get overlooked, ignored, and quite frankly written off the easiest."

• "I think the public actually does not respect us as much as they used to... I think they think our jobs are easy. I think they think they can do it too."

• "We spend more hours in a day with these kids than their own parents do... and yet most of them think what we do is practically babysitting."

• "How can you feel motivated to keep doing this when people don't think what you're doing is worthwhile to begin with?"