I try very very hard to be very very honest on this blog. That sounds like an easy thing to do, especially since I’m a sixth grade teacher who spends her life trying to separate strands of truth and fiction from children who insist that they need to go to the bathroom/counselor/nurse/principal/other teacher RIGHT NOW…
read more »The St Louis Making the Grade series has undergone a brief hiatus (read: 8 months), but I am ready to resurrect it, in part because I have a number of places which are itching to be reviewed. Today’s establishments are a pair of Mexican restaurants which count themselves amongst some of TFA corps members’ preferred list. Here…
read more »Today, over 65 volunteers gathered for three hours of service at Roosevelt High School. Several teachers and students came to represent the school but the majority of the crowd was comprised of citizens from the surrounding neighborhoods of Shaw and Tower Grove(s) East and South. The law firm of Bryan Cave LLC and the TALX…
read more »In the following blog post, I will attempt to be scholarly and philosophical. I will create an extended metaphor involving Enlightenment Age texts. Please try not to be alarmed, I’ll go back to self deprecation and puns soon enough. Once upon a time, I was a college student who did silly things like studying…
read more »What you see above are a series of before and during construction pictures from Roosevelt High School science labs 013 and 108. Due to the generous support of the citizens of the city of Saint Louis, a bond issue was passed in August of 2010 called Proposistion S . The Saint Louis Public Schools (SLPS) district…
read more »… that teacher, who in response to, “Miss, Miss, can I go to the bathroom?” answers, “I don’t know, can you?” … curmudgeonly. Because I break pencils and sharpen both halves in order to make them last me longer. And in order to prevent pencil break, the bane of my existence. … a fleetly flying…
read more »I’ve been full of anxiety through most of Winter Break. I never stopped thinking about school the entire time, and my standard “Sunday night woes” hit me hardcore on New Year’s Eve. Happy New Year? We go back tomorrow for a teacher work day, and then get our kids Wednesday. I feel like I just…
read more »Once upon a time, in a land called New Jersey, a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed college graduate sat down at a computer in her parents’ house to start a blog about the Grand Adventure upon which she was about to embark. [Spoiler: I was the bright-eyed, bushy-tailed college graduate] Six months later, she is sitting in the…
read more »When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest, if you must, but don’t you quit. Life is queer…
read more »Today was the last day of school before Christmas. I don’t know how to feel about that. Happy, relieved, obviously. Confused, stressed. Anxious, undecided. I have the emotional range of a preteen on a bad hair day, and that is just scratching the surface. The only thing that I don’t really feel as I sit…
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