I listen to 10th graders all day. I wish I didn't hear half of what I do. Now you can share the view from the trenches: the good, the bad, and the disturbing. Is this the future of the U.S.?
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
With great attention to detail
"How am I supposed to do this? I don't know what this is supposed to mean that I'm supposed to draw a visualization of the vocabulary word. All of mine are medical terms. You can't draw a colonoscopy!"
Diasporic academic, awash in secondary education. I assign classic canon novels that teach kids of color to believe that no one that ever looked like them wrote anything worthwhile. I teach girls that the only thing they ever did that was brilliant was "To Kill a Mockingbird." I listen to teachers in the lounge each day as they gab about Anna Nicole, pore over Fox news, and wonder why there isn't a White History month with straight faces. I'm ashamed of them and of my country. I try to teach myself, daily, that being a glorified babysitter is a mere stop on the career trail and that the literary fodder that I glean all day long is actually pretty darn funny. Coffee is my anti-drug.
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