In this article, the author discusses the experiences of Marian Sauer as one of the teachers during World War II. Marian Sauer, began teaching at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in Richmond, California, in 1942. During World War II, Richmond's population skyrocketed, as a direct result of homefront mobilization and school enrollments grew six times, dramatically over taxing the capacity of the city's public schools. Simultaneously, emigration transformed the demographic characteristics of Richmond's student population. Plagued by a shortage of classroom space and confronted by a growing number of academically impoverished students, Richmond's public elementary and secondary schools struggled simply to remain in operation throughout the war years. Yet as trying as their working conditions were, Marian Sauer and many of her colleagues considered their racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse pupils in need of a good education and considered it their professional, wartime "duty" to educate "all" students terms revealing the commitment to both patriotic self-sacrifice and colorblind ideology that infused Richmond educators' approach to public schooling during World War II. Given the significant degree of racism and discrimination in the United States throughout the war years, it seems puzzling that teachers such as Marian Sauer would strive to treat "all kinds of kids" fairly. (Contains 2 figures and 115 footnotes.)