There’s no mistaking Jeanne Nye for a Raging Granny. Her rubber ducky earrings bounce as she laughs, her wide grin is contagious and she energetically waves her hands as she speaks. But before Nye ever picked up a protest sign, she spent 44 years in the classroom, teaching children in Michigan, Texas and Wisconsin.
During her career, Nye dealt with her share of challenges, from navigating strict school rules in a one-room school on the border of Mexico to getting creative, making Halloween costumes for less fortunate children.
“The school I taught at [in Texas] had these terrible strict rules. No boys’ hair could touch their collar, so they would get kicked out. And somehow this bunch of boys knew to sneak over to my room and I would cut their hair,” Nye said…