Tag: education
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Some Days Can Be Like That…
Tuesday was a crazy day. I was all prepared for my class and really was excited to go. Everything was normal until the I hit the classroom door at the college. I had to rearrange the room again, due to sharing the room with another professor. Her arrangement is fine if you are doing discussion…
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In Class or Online
The weather is better today. I will get to be in person with my students for the first time in three weeks. The snow has forced online classes for much of the semester so far. It’s both a good thing and a bad thing, all at once. The amount of preparation is the same, but…
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Another Semester
This week marks the start of the second semester of the 2025-2026 school year. I have three classes this semester, and registration is almost complete with 20, 30, and 35 students, respectively. Tomorrow, I will work at the welcome tables to help ease students’ anxiety by letting them know which room their class is in…
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Efficiency
I heard that the government might reopen soon. This just blows my mind. How can you just shut down the government? What if educators just decided to shut down schools because they did not agree with something? I know that school would be closed often because there are always reasons for disagreement. Why are the…
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Justice
I am stressed out by some of the coverage of the Abby Zwerner case. That teacher needs to be given all the money she is suing for. As a retired administrator, I cannot imagine not responding to a concern that a student may have a weapon. Believe me, most administrators really are on it, unlike…
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Teacher Bashing
Teachers work hard and do not get paid enough (neither do principals for that matter). Society loves to bash teachers all the time. It is ridiculous. Here are some things that the public does not understand: Teachers get paid for NINE months of work. Their contractual day is usually seven hours and fifteen minutes with…
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Another Mugshot
Today, I saw another mugshot of a frequent flyer to my office during my tenure as an elementary principal. As much as I want to say it was unexpected, I cannot. His face was the same as it was almost fifteen years ago, except bigger. It is so sad that I have had the intuition…
Retired Principal Tales 