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A humorous look at teaching in an elementary school through the eyes of a teacher who loves her students, hates her job, and mourns the fact that they used to be the same thing. Thanks a lot No Child Left Behind...
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Put Your Money Where Your Mouth is
Our school is having a talent show in June! Students have been submitting their applications to show off their singing, dancing, acting, and whatever else skills and the school is abuzz with excitemen...
What Do You Mean, "Billy Fell Off a Cliff..."?
So I am on the annual science field trip to a local hiking area. I'm not alone. Three other teachers and at least 10 parents came along too. Oh...and two busloads of excited hikers under four and a ha...
There's a Special Place in Hell Reserved for Homework
I was chatting today with my dear friend Caroline.* Like me, she is a teacher. Unlike me, she is a mother, which earns my unfailing respect because doing the teacher-thing AND the mother-thing is one ...
Here Comes That Damn Peter Cottontail
It's almost Easter. Along with the colored eggs, funny hats, and plastic grass which we will be vacuuming up until next Christmas, I will have another mess to clean up: the truth about the Easter Bunn...
TLA's for PEE's
As in most professions, we Professional Elementary Educators have our own techincal terminologies. Many of them can be reduced down to TLA's as in other industries. For those of you not in the know, T...
Staff Infection
What do you do with a unceasingly sunny personality? I am not asking for myself. Apparently, I was innoculated for that along with measles, mumps, and rubella as an infant. What I am wondering is how ...