Farewell, Nashoba!
I’ve been teaching Law and Psychology (not my best subject, psychology, it turns out!) part-time at Nashoba Regional High School for the last two years, but I’ve decided to leave and take a break from teaching. First, it’s exhausting being passionate about one’s work…nah, that’s lame. Really, I find that Nashoba and I don’t really make a good match. Not because it isn’t a good school. In fact, it may be TOO good. And I may not be good enough. I was trying to stretch myself by teaching subjects I hadn’t taught before, and I think I may have stretched too far. I like teaching law, and I think I’m pretty good at that, but I found teaching psych to be a real letdown, and not just because Bob Griffith, aka Griff, teaches across the hall, and is easily one of the best teachers of ANYTHING that I’ve ever […]
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Another School Year is Coming to a Close; Moped Heaven
Because I’ve been working part-time, I’ve been teaching only two courses at Nashoba Regional High School this semester: Law and Psychology. The psych course is for seniors, of which I have only ten, and since the seniors end their year early, after May 22 I’ll be down to one class, Law. Since I’ve just finished my own graduate class today (thank gawd! It was awful!), that lowers my workload considerably, giving me time to ready myself for my upcoming tour ( blog for that is here) on the Eurodam in northern Europe.
What I’m really patting myself on the back for, though, is buying a moped. It hardly makes sense to drive to work at all for just one (or even two) classes, given the price of gas these days. At the end of the fall, I bought a Tomos Arrow, which is a no-ped — a moped without pedals. It […]
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The Telegram and Gazette’s Letters from Idiots
I love reading the T&G’s letters section online, because it is filled with choice, uninformed opinions that would be depressing if they weren’t so genuinely stupid. Especially worth noting are the comments to news stories left by idiots. These folks all have in common a worldview that divides the world into good and bad (policies, presidents, teachers, students, people in general). It’s as thought they must ascribe blame to someone, all the time.
A recent event at Wachusett High School spawned a long list of letters about kids involved in a beating. It was a nasty beating, and it was caught on video and put on Youtube for all to see. The opinions mostly fell into the category of “kids these days are spoiled rotten; punish them and they will improve.”
Many of the comments on this story fell back on the “bad kid, bad family” explanation; others asserted that school […]
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Moped Stolen!
My innnocent enthusiasm for mopeds has led only to mine being stolen on Wed. night. I reported the theft to the police, and my moped was registered, but I suspect I’ve seen the last of it. If you see it, let me know!
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Ireland: Great Music, Great Scenery: Lunasa Video
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