Mamaw loved stories like this, and
though she never met Selby, she admired
him and encouraged me to follow his
lead. Selby encouraged (but didn’t
require) his students to obtain advanced
graphing calculators—the Texas
Instruments model 89 was the latest and
greatest. We didn’t have cell phones, and
we didn’t have nice clothes, but Mamaw
made sure that I had one of those
graphing calculators. This taught me an
important lesson about Mamaw’s values,
and it forced me to engage with school
in a way I never had before. If Mamaw
could drop $180 on a graphing
calculator—she insisted that I spend
none of my own money—then I had
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(Rick Simeone)
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