What's For Dinner..Apple for Teacher Edition
I have been teaching for almost 30 years, and I think I have received an apple from a student maybe...twice. I wonder why this stereotype still exists?It is September, and that means the Honey Crisps...
View ArticleHappy Veteran's Day, Dad
My dad was a very popular teacher. His students loved him, and loved how he pretended to be gruff on the outside. He had a way of explaining math that made it understandable to most, and was willing to...
View ArticleTeacher shot and killed in Tacoma, WA
Details are still coming in, but a female elementary teacher was shot and killed outside Birney Elementary School in Tacoma Washington, this morning, before school had started or children had...
View ArticleShe Twitters in Lingerie!
I am donating my diary today on behalf of Amy Storey, who is in the running for a scholarship for Netroots Nation. Why should you cast a vote for this Los Alamos, New Mexico Progressive who doorbells...
View ArticleCyber-bullying and Responsibility
It happened again today. Another student came to me in tears. Kids were sending text messages to each other at home in the evenings. This student had been caught making a face by someone with a cell...
View ArticleYou don't need no stinkin' pencils!
I fished around in the office supply cupboard looking for pencils. Pencils disappear in my library at an unbelievable rate, and students rarely have their own with them. I made a mental note to stop...
View ArticleI got mine, 'ta hell with you!
I am involved in an argument on Facebook with a high school acquaintance over the usual...he is a teabagger who is self-employed and thinks all government is bad. ( I have another diary about that for...
View ArticleWeek 5 of testing..and they cut my pay.
We began week 4 of testing this week. In the beginning, it was the Measurement of Student Progress, which is the new name for the Washington Assessment of Student Learning. That covered grades 3-6,...
View ArticleDear Ron Paul...
A brilliant fellow teacher posted this on her Facebook page, and with her permission, I am posting it here. She posted it on Ron Paul's Facebook page, and it was immediately taken down.......no...
View ArticleWe have to do something..don't we?
This diary is for my fellow Washingtonians in our little group....I feel like I am yelling in an empty Safeco Field....Rob McKenna is ahead of Jay Inslee in many of the polls. Is the deafening silence...
View ArticleKossacks, I need your help
This place has an amazing array of experts in so many fields, and I find myself at a loss as to how I can help a friend who is suffering. I hope to find some ideas I can share with her as she tries to...
View ArticleVictoria Jackson Parody!
Victoria Jackson recently announced she is throwing her polka-dot bow into the political arena. Personally, I think comedians should pay her for all of the new-found opportunities for material. One...
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