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  • WTF, Dallas?!?!

    Two events worthy of note out of Dallas, Texas this week: 1. The city of Dallas is going to begin to charge people who live outside of Dallas if they are involved in a car accident. Have any of you ever driven in Dalla…

  • Wordy Wednesday and Surprises

    I walked into my classroom today to discover a gift from a former student. The student and I have bumped into eachother very few times since I had her in class two years ago. Nonetheless, today, she gave me a gift--or ra…

  • I Quit!

    It is a fairly common practice in our school for the Advanced Placement and Pre-Advanced Placement high school teachers to give our students our cell phone numbers and home email addresses in case they need help on an es…

  • Yesterday and today were dubbed "parent-teacher" conference days in our district. I only met with one set of parents today. Their child reminds me of my husband when he was in school: He wants to do well; he is a great k…

  • There is Only the Rubric

    Every year it happens. My little darlings haven't had to write anything of any value since seventh grade. What little they have written has been lauded needlessly or simply scored with no feedback given to them regardi…

  • Funny Kids!

    A line from an essay I am scoring: "Jackie's experience with the priest allowed him to find his own view of the church rather than the view that old Mrs. Ryan felt him up with." Aaaah, the jokes that can come from thi…

  • Undeserved/In Other News

    I received an email today from the parent of a student I had in class two years ago. The student is a senior now. She is a class officer, and she is in her final year of AP English (amongst other AP classes) at our schoo…

  • Oddities

    School has officially started. I am so busy reading the writing of others that I feel like I have nothing to discuss and write about myself. In other random news, I went to see a cousin yesterday. He and I are about si…

  • Confessional

    We discussed Frank O'Connor's "Frist Confession" in Pre-AP today. I always begin this discussion by asking the students what stuck out about the story to them. Right off the bat, one of the boys mentioned the narrator's …

  • Life at the Barnyard and Wordy Wednesday

    Totaling it up, I have heard students referred to as all of the following during staff development this week: 1. Horses 2. Dogs 3. Fish I guess one animal in a barn is no different than another. In other news, I sp…

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