Heather Lindstrom loved teaching.  Many teachers do.  But her students were gang members and sex offenders in a Minnesota correctional facility.  These are some of the song lyrics that she says inspire her:

"... Look at the situation, they got me facing
I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the strip
So I gotta be down with the hood team
Too much television watching got me chasing dreams ...

... Power and the money, money and the power
Minute after minute, hour after hour
Everybody's running, but half of them ain't looking
What's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's cooking
*They say I've got to learn but nobody's here to teach me
If they can't understand it, how can they reach me..."*
- Coolio in "Gangsta's Paradise "

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