William Henry Harrison Junior High
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Events with rich location context
William Henry Harrison Junior High emerges in C.J.'s backstory as her father's bitter retirement endpoint as math head, blocked from higher ascent—embodying policy's personal toll in heartland classrooms.
Quiet fury of deferred merit (recalled)
Backstory anchor personalizing affirmative action resentment
Frontline scar of institutional inequities
C.J. references William Henry Harrison Junior High as site of her father's embittered retirement as math department head, after affirmative action derailed higher ambitions—its evocation grounds abstract policy in concrete career stagnation.
Recalled as simmering with deferred merit and quiet fury
Backdrop for invoked personal trauma narrative
Monument to policy's human cost in public education trenches
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Aboard Air Force One, Toby sharply critiques President Bartlet's rewritten draft speech for its deliberate vagueness on affirmative action, unable to discern a clear stance amid evasive platitudes. Bartlet defends …
Frustrated after Bartlet dismisses his push for a bold affirmative action stance, Toby silently joins C.J. in the staff cabin. She questions the President's evasion, igniting a charged debate on …