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I returned to my classroom at three. I told the little monsters to straighten up the tables and chairs and sit down. The robotic one stated: "C. are sick." I turn around and look out into the hall and there she is, my favorite student, lying on a mat, twisted, having kicked away the blanket ( Read more... )

To my employer's credit, she doesn't ask us to work much beyond Monday through Friday business hours. We get screwed out of a lot of vacation time, we have to work even when school's out. Every so often, we get hoed into promotional events such as the one I worked this morning ( Read more... )

M______, from now on known as M., was one of the sharper kids in my FP3B. I recently upped her to FP3A. This is the second time I did this. Bumped a kid up, that is. In the larger scheme of things, this "bumping up" business really amounts to very little. However, in the context of my job, it's a big deal insofar as it gives me the sense of taking ( Read more... )

My kindergarteners have been assigned something like twenty-eight books. A handful of these are reading books. Little collections of stories about this and that. Poorly written and poorly drawn, for the most part. When it comes to these little collections, the important point to bear in mind is that the kids like them. Fortunately, all of my ( Read more... )

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My older kids and I are reading Johnny Appleseed. It's a two-act play written by Pleasant de Spain. It's in the Something New, Harcourt Textbook ( Read more... )

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My mind is like an autumn moon
Shining clean and clear in the green pool.
No, that's not a good comparison.
Tell me, how should I explain?

--Han Shan