Yapping, often with an indignant tone, often after reading or listening to the news.
The two big news stories since I moved from Missouri have been: anti-Semitic lunatic shoots up the Jewish Community Center, and cops shoot teenager who is black and unarmed. Is that where I am from? Well, yes. It is a place that struggles with fear in its own ways. We will always have trouble with […]
Read More Guard DogsParents versus teachers: we’re sort of on the same team, and sort of not. When we clash, it’s ugly. I didn’t go into teaching to sabotage or attack students. In fact, it hurts like the dickens when you suggest I haven’t done a good job. When left unsupervised, about 1/4 of my brain obsessively catalogues […]
Read More Take A Load Off AnnieI woke up this morning to death. I didn’t cheer it like those kids in DC. My cat had killed a mouse. I screamed, and then I laid a towel over the corpse. My great-grandfather used to say, “It’s not the dead people you need to worry about– it’s the living.” He was a mortician. […]
Read More Giving and HavingOf course, nobody told this guy to shoot a Congressional representative. Still, when I saw Palin’s graphic, I thought of every first-person shooter game with gory blood spurting graphics, and I thought of JFK. And I know if I found crosshairs drawn over a map of my classroom, I’d consider that a violent threat, because students […]
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