Confidential Posts
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This Expulsion Rec Blows
There are some recommendations for expulsion that make sense: student safety has been compromised, someone brought weapons to campus, maybe someone has hit their entrepreneurial stride and expanded their drug sale empire in the new all gender restroom. And then there are expulsion recs like the one I made today. I have a student with…
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This Friday? I’m working.
If you know a high school administrator, then you know they work most Friday nights during the fall and winter athletic seasons. It’s just how it goes. But what comes to mind for you when I mention a high school football game? Of course there’s a game and fans and cheerleaders and a snack bar…
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She’s Allergic to What?
Years ago, we had a student who had a strangely shaped rash on her face. It looked like something had splattered on her cheek – it was red and raised and she complained that it was itchy. An admin asked her what she had gotten on herself, as it looked like some sort of contact-dermatitis. …
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Say My Name
When teachers are happy, they will call you by your name – as in “I just saw Mr. Miller and he was so helpful!” or “Cameron wrote a wonderful letter of recommendation for my Master’s program.” But look out when they’re not happy. “ADMIN was in my classroom today – so awkward.” “Why doesn’t ADMIN…
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Great Gatsby Has Got to Go
A lifetime ago, I was a lit major and LOVED my American Literature courses. I read Hemingway and Fitzgerald and Steinbeck, and wrote more than a handful of essays on the works of Edith Wharton and Kate Chopin. That was my JAM! And don’t get me started on how I felt when I landed my…
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I Don’t Want Free Lunch
I work in a state that began offering free breakfast and lunch to every student in the midst of the distance-learning period. Our nutrition department would put together meals that were more-or-less shelf-stable for students and offered them for pick up in school parking lots. My site had grocery bags for pick-up and students could…
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