This week I have DUTY. For those of you who are new to teaching or working toward your teaching career, DUTY one of those wish-I-didn’t-have-to-do-this part of your job. What happens is that the administration will give you random assignments before or after school where you will be asked monitor students as they arrive or […]
Hello all, Yesterday, I had to teach my students about the Fugitive Slave Act. This was a law that allowed slave owners to go up to the North and retrieve their runaway slaves. It was part of the Compromise of 1850, and one of the causes of the American Civil War. It’s a pretty tough […]
Hello all, Nice title, huh? Let me explain. I was talking to a friend of mine who has a daughter enrolled in my school. The daughter is not one of my students, but she attends the same school on another track. My friend was telling me about one of her daughter’s teachers who she’s a […]
Hello all, It’s been a while since my last post. The only excuse I have is that I got sick. Nothing serious, just a bad cold, but it made me want to sleep more than write a blog post. Thankfully, I’m better, so I’m back to blogging. Recently, something happened at my school that reminded […]
