As a guy who has taught in an inner city high school, I can appreciate the Tennessean‘s multiarticle feature on gang violence. It is a good primer for those wanting to be informed on this issue. And when it says that the gang South 8th is “locally based”, I can nod my head emphatically having [...]
The title of this post comes from Julian Norwich, a Chaucer-era anchoress. It is also a refrain of my favorite poem from T. S. Eliot’s The Four Quartets. It is a reminder to me that sometimes even the worst of situations can emerge with a silver edge. I tell it to myself, but I must [...]
It was odd to see this coming out of Germany and realize that school violence is not just my daily battlefield. Reports are that three teachers died trying to save students from this boy run amok. I was a junior in high school when Columbine occurred. That shocked me something awful. Now, I’ve seen lots [...]
Some days I really feel that I may be an awful teacher that I cannot make more progress with my students then I seem to do. Some days I feel that I am God’s gift to education when it all goes as planned. But then, there are days when I feel not dejected or jubilant, [...]
