What glass ceiling?
She wakes in the dark, dresses quickly, eats a little, jumps into her 13-year-old Buick with Happy Meal toys on the dash and drives to school 15 miles away. Classes begin at 7:30. She spends the first two hours helping teacher Louis Zulli get the school’s network of computers ready. Sharleen is a computer person and is looking forward to buying her first personal laptop soon. She works 20 hours every weekend babysitting. She pays for her own clothes and for her meals outside the home and for her car insurance. She is good at budgeting and planning. She has managed to save $2,000. She has her eye on a new Dell laptop. She wants one with 512 megabytes of RAM and a 60-gigabyte hard drive. “She’s as good as I have ever had,” says Zulli, a teacher since 1977. “As far as she is concerned, there is no glass ceiling she has to crash through. She’s absolutely fearless. She will take on any assignment.” Recently she volunteered to be managing editor of the Lakewood yearbook. She spends two hours
