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Prom Night

Tonight is the night of the prom. In my junior/senior IB classes at the end of the day, I had exactly five students in each.

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Today a teacher told me that she had it with a stu…

Today a teacher told me that she had it with a student using their phone to text message in class. He was also a frequent user of the restroom, so she suspected something shady. So one day when he was...

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Something That I’d Never Do

Today I’m eating the last piece of a dessert that another teacher had brought in for us. Because I took the last piece, I just began eating it when the students began entering the room. One student...

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Funding Schools

Today the teachers at my school found a “Pledge Card” in our mail boxes. The principal would like us to donate money to our own school. There are some checkboxes: $50, $100, $500, $2500, $5000, or...

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Darn, It’s Our Fault Again!

Accoring to a new study High School Survey of Student Engagement, high school students just aren’t doing too much work. The study shows that 55% of all high school students don’t spend any more than 3...

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Scholarship Committee

I love economics, and when “Freakonomics” came out, I got it right away. One thing that struck me the most was the chapter on parenting: “What Makes a Perfect Parent”?. The authors have shown that...

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How I Spent an Hour Today

Some people wonder what really goes on during teacher preparation periods. Today I spent an hour trying to get a bird out of a classroom that came in through the window. My neighbors class was totally...

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The International Baccalureate and God’s Will

Minnetonka, Minnesota, a western suburb of Minneapolis, has a good size group of parents who want the district to ecease its offering of the International Baccalurate program. The district is a...

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Parental Excuses for Kids

Today, our school’s dance teacher asked me if I knew a student named “Ami”. I told her that I did know her, but she dropped my class earlier in the year after she missed quite a few days. I was upset...

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Preschool Expulsion Rate Is a Surprise?

I’m not sure why people are surprised that expulsions from preschool are much higher than that of K-12 schools. I suppose it is because people think that the behaviors of the little tots can’t be worse...

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