Tis the Season for Conference Wankery!
Do you know what’s more boring than the insularity of academia? Bold Rebels Who Take Stands Against the Insularity of Academia by using minor players/subfields as weapons to bash someone who is...
View ArticleIf Your Holidays Aren’t So Happy
It wasn’t too many years ago that I was suicidally depressed. Because this is a public forum, I won’t go into what finally got me to a psychiatrist (I’d seen psychotherapists for years, but hadn’t been...
View ArticleI Propose a New Educational Mandate
To wit, a mandate that educational mandates be in line with actual current research on education rather than pulled out of someone’s butthole. So, for instance, some teacher(s) at this school in...
View ArticleDo You Trust Women
Sunday is Roe Day [edited to add: and some good news to celebrate!]. I wrote this piece a long time ago, and I’ve reposted part of it since then. And now I’m doing so again because I still think it’s...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal for Roe Day
I challenge everyone who has commented in the “Do You Trust Women” post and considers themselves pro-choice to donate $2 to Planned Parenthood (or your abortion rights organization of choice)...
View ArticleLet Us Ponder the Various Meanings of the Word “Boobs”
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View Article“Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you...
If you haven’t come across Jourdon Anderson’s 1865 letter “To [his] Old Master” yet, do read it; it’s marvelously pointed, far more rhetorically adept than its recipient deserved. Jason Kottke did a...
View ArticleCalling All Adjuncts
Sorry, this isn’t a job posting. Instead, it’s a request for adjuncts or recent adjuncts to add their salaries to a database, intended to “recognize the schools that are doing a great job . . . [and...
View ArticleI May Have Been Wrong
So. That post I wrote about charter schools? Where I argued that liberal, educated, reasonably affluent parents (like me!) should keep our kids in public schools, advocate for public schools, not buy...
View ArticleI May Have Been Wrong: Shorter Version
A “bad teacher” named William Johnson talks about the problems we’re having from the other side of the desk. my job can be extremely difficult. Beyond the challenges posed by my students, budget cuts...
View ArticlePK is Charmed and So Am I
A public thank you to Kieran for teaching PK two new vocabulary words–“diaphoresis” and “micturition”–which should come in very handy. And for the delivery of a package this morning that prompted PK to...
View ArticleHome, Schooling
So. On the advice of multiple therapists and after failing to get a transfer to the one in-district school that I thought might work for Pseudonymous Kid, and likewise failing to find a private school...
View ArticleIf You Can’t Whip Out a Boob in an Anthropology Class, Where Can You?
I must make a Public Statement about Women Who Breastfeed While Teaching. Because I am a woman who used to teach, and I breastfed, and though I never breastfed my kid during class I did on occasion...
View ArticleOne Day at a Time
So homeschooling is turning out to be kind of like sobriety? Which started as a joke–and no, I am not an alcoholic or addict, except for being a former smoker, which does, actually, count–but on...
View ArticleHow to Tell a Story: A Review of Ari Kelman’s _A Misplaced Massacre:...
Ari Kelman’s new book, A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek, is a complicated and beautiful narrative about narrative, a series of connected and interwoven stories about...
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