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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Would Not Miss School for That

Back when I was in middle school in the late 1990s, the Baltimore Blast indoor soccer team would have the occasional school day home game. I imagine the team stopped those games due to a lack of attendance. For me, going never entered my mind. I was in school and was going to do my job, not go to an... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 15, 2013

Not As Much Time As I Thought

"Do you want to teach another lesson?" Casey Farmer asked me on a Thursday. Without hesitation, I enthusiastically replied, "Sure." I was coming off the heels of a successful second lesson. Teaching was even greater than what I thought it would be going in. After having had two lessons that went so... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Nap Time? No Thanks

Once I got to middle school, I would hear every so often different peers talking about how they took nap time during pre-school and kindergarten for granted. They did not want to lie down, preferring to do other things. Fast forwarding to middle school, they said that they could really use a nap... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 8, 2013

I Did Not Go to Detention

In fifth grade, I enrolled at a private school. The school was different from the previous elementary schools I had attended in that it had lunch detention, where offending students ate in silence in another room during lunch and recess. Lunch detention could be given for five different reasons. The... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Lost Passion

Annicita wrote in response to last entry: "you seemed to enjoy teaching so i don't understand why you are working at the car wash " UtahJay wrote: " I have been thinking the same thing as Annicita, you should do what you love. " What happened in my life was that I lost my passion for teaching. In... Sign in to see full entry.

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