David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

The principal of Shepaug Valley Middle
School is a woman named Teresa
DeBrito. In her five-year tenure at the
school, she has watched the incoming
class dwindle year by year. To a parent,
that might seem like good news. But
when she thought about it, she had that
last curve in mind. “In a few years we’re
going to have fewer than fifty kids for