I’m a first grade teacher. Have been for almost 20 years now. Every year, one of our biggest concerns are “bubble” kids. Bubble kids don’t live in a bubble–they are those kids who are on a razor-edge fence. Bubble kids either float up to promotion and success, or they float down to retention. We work …
Seldom a day goes by without reference to the Tebow ‘controversy’. What controversy? A football player who wasn’t the victim of an abortion and believes in God celebrates his successes after important plays. Controversy is a quarterback who slaughtered dogs–even the family dog–and was forgiven in the blink of an eye. Controversy are the exhibitions …
You’ve heard it. You know it’s true. Public education in theU. S.is screwed up. A mess. A nightmare. Why, it virtually doesn’t exist, except as a demon institution attacked almost equally by the left for trying to dictate morals and common sense and by the right as being immoral, left-leaning and unjust. I’m a public school …
Confessions of an Ugly Teacher.
