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"Miss, what are you?" was the phrase I heard most often during my first day of teaching at Upper Darby High. The school was about 50 percent students of color, but--as far as I could tell--I had doubled the population of minority teachers. Upper Darby is a township, and 15 years ago, school assessors recommended that the district begin to close its schools down, because the population of the area was supposed to continually decrease, leaving almost no local young people in need of schools. Instead, lower-middle-class families ended up moving out of Philadelphia and into the township in the late 1990s. South Asian and Arab immigrants also settled in the area, and the ...