It's been a year since the student paper I advised published that article that caused all the trouble.  It's been a year since I saw a student newspaper come together for the first time and really be all that I had imagined when I started the class.

It's hard not to be sad about it, and it's hard not to wish I could go back and try things ( Read more... )

At the school where I teach, they have had what they call "The Great Warrior Race" every spring.  This race is part scavenger hunt, part obstacle course, and part relay race.  It is held outside, and this year the recent water-logged weather made holding the race difficult.  The administration kept pushing the race back, until finally the race was ( Read more... )

I thought I would post a bit about what has been in the news about me.  It's not much, truthfully, but it might be interesting to a couple of people, so here goes.

I was on the news station down here, KPIC, and here's the link to the story.  Wanna see the video and hear the dulcet tones of my voice?  Watch this.

But wait, that's not all!  The Student ( Read more... )

So our journalism class did not earn $470.  There was a mistake in (someone else's) calculations, and we only made $193.  So...  Anyone have an extra $200 laying around?

So I got some good news for my journalism class today.  No, they haven't miraculously decided to renew me for next year ( Read more... )

We take a break in the middle of our regularly scheduled whining to bring you this tiny, inconsequential post about something silly!

In my classroom, any time I want to change the mood/be silly/annoy the crap out of students, I play Lesley Gore's classic "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows":

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It does the trick. All my students are familiar with the ( Read more... )

Lest you think that I only write about when I am awesome and smart, allow me to write about my own blunders and shame ( Read more... )

It's ugly, y'all. My students have contacted an attorney (simply for advice! No one is on retainer or anything! Calm down!), the superintendent kicked me out of his office (for real), the superintendent and principal came to my class and only pushed the students further away (one student ended up crying, it was so intense), and then they sent a ( Read more... )

So here's the deal.  My life has entirely too much drama right now, but I think I need to let this out.

On Friday, my principal said that he had fielded complaints from parents about an editorial that ran in the school paper.  He objected to two portions of the editorial, and said that my choice to allow the article to run led him to question my ( Read more... )

Urgh ( Read more... )