February 2012
22 posts
'My Teacher Is a Lesbian': Coming Out at School →
lhuddles:
A month into my first year of teaching seventh graders in Oakland, Calif., we were in the school library, using the big tables there to spread out as we outlined Africa on poster paper and added geographical features. My students chatted as they worked.
“Are you married, Ms. Sokolower?” one of them asked me. My stomach instantly tied in a knot. I was a brand-new teacher in what...
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Can fashionable teacher week come back?
Please?
January 2012
16 posts
“People say, “I’m going to sleep now,” as if it were nothing. But it’s really a...”
– George Carlin (via mosquitokisses)
……. :-o
“Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let’s...”
– Obama (via kateoplis)
Well, that would be nice.
I want to eat outside.
But I can’t afford to go out, and our back yard needs to be poop scooped… life.
December 2011
11 posts
When I decided to be a teacher, it wasn't because...
Mhmm
An art teacher articulately writes what most... →
kbkonnected:
Amen
everyfiredies:
This almost brought tears to my eyes. It’s so painful to listen to the public hate on teachers when I work my ass off every day at a job that most people I meet raise their eyebrows at and say, “I could never handle that job.”
This is wonderful.
