:with love and squalor

i am a pre-k teacher at a failing school in inner city baltimore. once before this i was a contemporary critical theory/phenomenology/critical race theory student at a cozy little school that taught me enough to make myself into an existential nihilist, but didn't teach me how it's possible to stay alive in the world that way. sometimes i post about that stuff.

other times i post about the mountain goats, the failure of public education in america, baltimore (we have a love/hate relationship), atheism, good politix, and the basic disappointments of the human condition.

i've started to amass a bunch of education followers which is GREAT! and welcome! but just know that this is my personal blog and some of the things i post on here are unrelated to education and may be explicit or not kid friendly in some way (personal stuff, poetry, LGBTQ stuff, critiques of capitalism and the state, etc.).

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# July 11, 2012 / 1:42PM 329 notes

brooklynmutt:

“Our favorite correction letter ever, from 5th graders @ Burning Tree E.S. in Bethesda MD.” - @RonCharles, Washington Post

Awesome.

I went to that elementary school!!! On another note, one of my favorite things to do with my students is have us write letters and messages on chart paper and have them sign their names. Good to know we’re achieving at high levels since this looks pretty similar to something we’d write, although these kids are 5 grade levels ahead of mine… huh.

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