by altha-admin | Oct 5, 2011 | Articles
How much does it cost to go to college?I am not talking about the time and effort invested in cramming for AP and SAT tests. Nor am I talking about the diligence a students must demonstrate in sessions with a guidance counselor, visits to prospective campus, or the...
by altha-admin | Oct 5, 2011 | Articles
I have so much to say, yet I fear that most students will not understand me.Sometimes I speak in Spanish, just because I feel like it. Other times, I have no choice, since sometimes I am working with students who are not yet proficient in English (yet they are...
by altha-admin | Oct 5, 2011 | Articles
Barack Hussein Obama — community organizer, academic, state senator, junior U.S. Senator, campaigner, now President of the United States.No executive experience, no long-term experience in leadership and compromise.Community organizer is just legalized bullying,...
by altha-admin | Oct 5, 2011 | Articles
During my first year of teaching, I had heard the job of a teacher described as someone who is trying to fly a plane and build it at the same time.How do we read such a prescient metaphor?Teaching is therefore impossible. Yes, if by teaching, we mean revealing to...
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...
