by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
Throughout the rest of the school year, I bounced around in two other high schools in the district.Apparently, I was a lot of fun.I liked teaching French, I was a French teacher, once.So, I brought some French lessons for fun. At the end of the period, if there was...
by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
I am not a bad teacher.Really, I am not.I have the letters of recommendation to prove it.One counselor wrote me a letter, two months after I asked for it. She told me that I was too strict, that the kids were very critical of me when they visited her in her office. I...
by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
What are educators supposed to be doing? Liberating something or someone, I believe.Liberating people's minds, certainly. Yet the mind, the result of civilization, tradition, and acculturation, cannot free itself. Nor can the minds of men, dedicated to better...
by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
He's fat.He's brash.He kicks butt.He tells it like it is.Chris Christ is no Christ-figure, yet he has Christ-like qualities, unlike the current Vanity-in-Chief, whose self-importance has so impeded his pretended usefulness, the country is longing to be rid of...
by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
Students in impoverished school districts usually settle for new teachers who look for the first chance to move to a better school, or they settle for long-term and day-to-day substitute teachers.When one teacher shows up to inspire them, they have a sense of hope....
