ring around the rosy pocket full of posies ashes ashes we all fall down I felt such depression last week. I had forgotten how heavy it is. Though I was there to see and be with kind and generous people, for some reason it was there that the weight collapsed on me. Sometimes it does. […]
Read More we all fall downToday a kid asked me what my religion was, I used to dodge that question, today I just told him. I don’t know why. Episcopalian. I mean Christian. Episcopalian. Did you, like, grow up in the church? Yeah. My family’s very religious. He’s Catholic. Other kid nodded. He’s Catholic. I’m nothing. I mean, I’m a […]
Read More YoursAs with many debates in education, the whole thing begins with a problem (too many suspensions), hot button issues are thrown at it to make everyone lose their tempers (racism!), and then everyone weighs in on what should happen, even though most of them have never successfully disciplined a classroom, or worked out consequences with […]
Read More Yer Outta HereParents 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 […]
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