Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
Today, my kid starts school. She’s two and a half. And she’s ready. She’s very, very, very ready. She watches and thinks and learns, her little brain working furiously behind her eyes as she stares fixatedly at me whenever I try to thwart her plans for world domination. It’s time. She needs more than I [...]
Yes, sometimes, I use the fact that my kid loves to play by herself to my advantage. I stuff her in front of her work table, her toy farm, her coloring books, her beach toys in the back yard, her whatever, and let her go to town while I just get shit done. I write, [...]
A high school teacher in Australia made international headlines after assigning a project in which her Year 10 students were to pretend they were terrorists. Because, you know: EDUCATION. The assignment, given last week to a Contemporary Conflict and Terrorism class, instructed the students to make a ‘political statement by releasing a chemical or biological [...]
Being a teacher is a demanding job, but it does have its perks – one of them being, at times, grading papers. It’s time consuming, sure, but every once and a while a real gem comes along – an unintentionally funny drawing or spelling error, or a really, really wrong answer – that makes up [...]
There is nothing I love to do more than surf the ‘net in search of quirky news stories – thanks in part, no doubt, to my healthy StumbleUpon addiction. I get a kick out of those numbered, list-type posts – you know, the ones that list the Top Ten Things You Should Never Say to [...]
So not only are children smarter than us, they are most definitely more awesome. This apparently irritates or confuses some adults. And when adults become irritated or confused by youth they pull the only card out: punishment. In the case of school officials, they dole out detention slips that make the teacher look even more [...]
Remember back in February when two school teachers from Churchill High School in Winnipeg, Manitoba were suspended from their jobs for realistically simulating (stimulating?) a lap dance in front of the student body? A career-killing dance that was captured on video and available on YouTube within what I’m sure was moments of its completion? Damn [...]
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