Yes, I played “School’s Out” by Alice Cooper. No one needed that extra noise in the hall. Yesterday, a senior who had spent many days sleeping through class, came in to do some more work in hopes of graduating in July. I put on “Wayne’s World” and I told him it was the movie I […]
Read More The LastWhat if a teacher asked you to summarize what went wrong at school, using “I” statements? You might write something like… -I was rapping about crack –I said exactly what you heard me say I said karma is a bitch and I meant it simple -I was cussing during class, and putting up my ring […]
Read More ProcessingI have two opinions on UFOs: they are real, and they’re not. They are real in that my grandpa, the grandpa I barely knew, was a professional pilot, and he said every pilot had seen things. Every pilot had seen things, he said, and pilots know what weather balloons and satellites and reflections look like. […]
Read More SkiesOne of my students was adding blue colored pencil filling to his Thomas the Tank Engine drawing, and he said, “People used to make fun of me for liking this stuff.” “I’m sorry,” I said. “That’s not right.” It’s the end of April. The kids wanted to do their online learning thing, and I was […]
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