Nov 5, 2023
Another year, another group of my delightful ninth graders trying to spell the word "tragedy" for their Romeo and Juliet assignment.
Last year's collection
Oct 13, 2025
I'm not going to lie, I don't think "parent's rights" should be a thing when it comes to topics of education. I don't think parents should have the right to prevent their child from learning essential information about their bodies. I don't think you should be allowed to opt your child out of accurate history lessons. I don't think you should be allowed to opt your child out of learning about people that actually exist or events that actually happened. I don't think religion is an excuse to opt out of these things either. Your religion is not an excuse to hinder a child from interacting with the world. If you refuse a child knowledge about people that actually exist with the explicit purpose of encouraging them to treating those people like shit, I don't think that's a right you should have. I don't think parents should have the right to raise their children to be shitty humans. I don't think "parent's rights" outweigh the child's right to have a healthy body and a well-rounded education. I don't think "parent's rights" should ever be allowed to hinder a child in relating to the actual world.
More than that, I don't think your rights as a parent outweighs your responsibility to the rest of the world. Whether Americans, in our hyper-individualistic country, want to admit it or not, we actually do have a responsibility to one another to raise good children, look out for public health, and create a society where different people can live together effectively.
Feb 5, 2023
When a student copies an essay online instead of writing it and then painstakingly changes every word to a synonym until the text no longer makes any sense...
call that the Ship of Thesaurus
May 29
Thinking about how Grace didn't get to take down his classroom. It's a bitter sweet (and honestly annoying) part of the year. Taking down the posters that gave your classroom life. What made it yours. Going through the memories of the previous school year with your students.
My desk is clear. The chairs are stacked. The walls are bare. Ryland Grace left his room like a mausoleum.
Apr 14
When the new teacher arrives and you know right away, you are going to be great friends.
Aug 4
It’s that time of year for teachers to be reminded about how to handle blood and EpiPens, that you can’t accept gifts totaling over $50 from one party over the course of 365 days, that you are a mandated reporter for all things, except maybe work place harassment, that’s only suggested if you’re a manager—but it’s not cool, and what the district policy is if you lost children seems to be updated and you know the exact incident that created this update.
Currently, I am being forced to sit through the conflict of interest laws knowing that the town and state employees are rife with nepotism but me accepting wipes for a classroom could be considered a gift.
Dec 31, 2025
Part 3 of Pedro Pascal characters accurately portraying the life of a teacher
(Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 4)
1. Teachers making it to Friday:
2. Carefully configuring a new seating arrangement without your classroom descending into chaos:
3. Students using new slang:
4. Teachers at the end of field trips:
5. When your grade level team's vibe is chaotic but so are you:
6. Recess duty in August:
7. What you really want to do with the new curriculum:
8. When admin or curriculum specialists with a master's degree and only 3 years experience in the classroom try to tell veteran teachers how to run their classroom:
