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Sep.03.2011
If you have heard the statement, “My teacher hates me!” from your elementary school child, don’t panic but sit down and discuss this feeling she has. If what she says sounds serious to you, it probably is. Take it very seriously.
One of the most important lessons in parenting is giving your...
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Aug.22.2011
The night before the first day of school. We are poised on the brink of the unknown.
On the eve of my eleventh year as a classroom teacher I want to share a brief note that was sent to me this evening.
First a little background. Twenty-six years ago I was beginning my first year as an elementary...
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Aug.17.2011
Sherlock Holmes Book Banned for Being Mean to Mormons
A Virginia school board has removed Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, the author's first Sherlock Holmes novel, from sixth-grade reading lists after a parent complained that it was anti-Mormon. The book, which includes a...
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Aug.12.2011
I had difficulty in high school. My grades were bad, I occasionally got into trouble and my report card was never released to me personally. Being a middle child, I had difficulties growing up. Among 6 siblings, I was the only one who needed a tutor.
I remember her name, what she looked like and...
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Aug.11.2011
It was my first day back to school and as I looked around the room I was feeling pretty confident.
What a sharp contrast from last year. Seventeen of us survived the first year. We are the minority in a sea of new faces. We are recognized as the warriors; survivors of Year One.
During the our...
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Jun.27.2011
I've been thinking...oh, now that can get me into a lot of trouble. If I have too much alone time on my hands my thinking can really bring me down and it has lately. Dealing with Daddy, the siblings, work, construction and not hearing from friends has me in a funk. I've been thinking a lot about...
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Jun.07.2011
I do a great number of school readings. And when I get to the end of my presentation I say, "Now it's time for the dreaded Q&A. You ask the questions and I'll attempt to answer, though I don't do mathematical questions." Often I get asked, "Where do you get your ideas?...
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May.20.2011
It's not often one reads a book that roughly parallels one's own life, but such is so with Saramago's memoir, small memories. Saramago grew up poor in pre-WWII Portugal, that time a continental divide between the modern world and the postmodern one.
Saramago spent his early years in the city of...
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Apr.14.2011
You can never start them too young to gain an appreciation of Kafka, say I.
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'Buggin' wins new play prize
Darrah Cloud's "What's Buggin' Greg" is the winner of this year's Macy's New Play Prize for Young Audiences at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park....
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Apr.09.2011
One day I might spend a summer working in an orchard, picking fruit. I imagine this would be exhausting, yet rewarding work, to labour in the outdoors, under the warm sun, surrounded by foliage, using your hands and knowing that you are contributing to the cycle of life. I think I might...
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