by altha-admin | Oct 9, 2011 | Articles
Hawthorne was terrible. At least, my experience there was.Lawndale was bound to be better. And in many ways, it was."Mr. Schaper, we know that you're a good teacher, but we don't respect you."This coming from one senior. How clairvoyant he must have...
by altha-admin | Oct 9, 2011 | Articles
I won a hundred bucks once in a lottery.Actually, it was a couple of movie tickets, and the movie wasn't that great.Still, the fact that I won something was very rewarding. The main point being that I did nothing to earn it.That's what I call rewarding.Now,...
by altha-admin | Oct 9, 2011 | Articles
I liked my English teacher in high school.I learned a lot from him. At least, that's what I thought for a long time.Yet since accepting the hulking fraud which passed for public education, I had to reevaluate my esteem for this English teacher.Originally, I liked...
by altha-admin | Oct 9, 2011 | Articles
That is the one thing that no teacher wants to hear."I don't like you."It's all over for a teacher who now has to struggle up hill, both ways in the mental, metaphysical snow of reaching out to student to teach them something that they have no...
by altha-admin | Oct 9, 2011 | Articles
My first teaching experience was in a preschool.At the same time, I was studying social ecology ( a dressed-up form of sociology, just to make UC Irvine a slightly more unique and impressive school). The school's emphasis was on the relationship between human...
