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A Ten-Year Old Named Oscar (viewed as single page)
After my nine-month internship in a fifth grade classroom, I was not offered a contract to teach full time and had to substitute teach for the next two years. A ten-year old called Oscar (not his real...
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Avoid the Mainstream Parent Trap – Part 5/9
Parents are a vital element of a child and teen’s education. Parents must be involved even if the children are attending public or private schools. Teachers cannot do it all. Students must read daily...
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Putting the Blame where it Belongs — Part 4/6
To make this new Academic Index work, most if not all teachers use computer grading programs. All teachers need do is make sure there are categories for homework, class discussion, students asking...
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The Impact of Aging Public Schools on Teachers and Students
My last sixteen years of teaching took place at Nogales High School in La Puente, California. Nogales was built in 1961. By the time I left teaching, Nogales was forty-four years old. During the last...
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Dumping Teachers due to Standardized Test Results and Student Performance –...
In the August 2011 Costco Connection, Norm Scott, the founding member of the Grassroots Education Movement and one of the producers of “The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting For Superman”, said, “The...
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Due Process – Part 2/4
Lawyers are extremely expensive and even if a teacher accused of a crime or of incompetence was innocent, without the union to pay legal fees, most teachers would be helpless victims. In addition,...
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Substitute Teaching is not a “Tea Party”
During the 1976-77 school year, I subbed daily in a half-dozen school districts during the first semester. Substitute teaching is not easy. Whoever called first at five in the morning — that would be...
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