My Dear Students, I would be surprised if sometime in your school career you had not asked the question, Why do I have to go to school? I think that my younger self--who very often spoke those words--did not ask them because I actually wanted an answer. Instead, I used them as a tidy little …
Unspoken Words: Why I Began This Blog
As a classroom teacher, I was silent more often than I expected to be. One day, I overheard a student exclaim, “Guys, I’ve done the math. Dropping out now gets me way more money than going to high school.” As I watched the others swarm around him eagerly, I wanted to stop everything and spend …
