The Teacher Who Wouldn't Walk Away

In 2018, Katie Blomquist, a first-grade teacher in North Charleston, South Carolina, noticed her students had no bicycles. Not a single one. Most had never learned to ride. She launched a campaign to give every child at her Title I school a bike, and the mockery came swift. Colleagues called it naive. A local commenter wrote that she was wasting her time on kids who would just sell them.…