Dr. Elizabeth Long

Every story about a student, family, teacher, or school Dr. Long served is a composite, not one real child, family, or school; when she writes about her own family, that is her own story. Details are changed and situations are combined, on purpose.

Dr. Long has spent more than thirty years inside public schools. The things worth writing about are things she saw while people trusted her with their children. Writing them as composites lets her say something true about what happens in these rooms without putting a real family in one.

So if a piece sounds like your child, that is because the same thing happens in a lot of places. It is not about you, and it is not about anyone you know.