I was just looking at the Poll Results that are coming in this week on the latest poll “Best Classroom Management Practice is managed by…”.
Initially, I was actually surprised that the “5 years of more Experience” is rivaling “school leadership” in a neck-to-neck tie. I put in my vote (had to tip that little baby [...]
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‘Nigger’ is a word white people don’t get to use. My Year 8 students ask me why: “Black people call each other that all the time, Miss!”
I stammer: “There’s connotations—meanings—in that word that suggests ‘hate’, when white people say it to black people.”
My students constantly voice their disgust for things by saying, “That’s gay!” [...]
At a car dealership recently, a salesman admitted to me that when he sees teachers coming, “he runs”. As a waitress, a colleague once stiffed, “bloody teachers never tip”.
We have long been regarded as stingy. And most sales people that we have to deal with dislike our supposed thriftiness. So what I’m wondering is–where does it come [...]
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