My first year teaching, I had two much older mentors who guided me toward nit-picky rules like not giving pencils or refusing late work. I thought that was how you did things until I realized that some kids truly don’t have someone at home giving them school supplies or checking homework,…
I’ve graduated from holding my car key between my fingers to carrying a knife. When walking alone, I generally flip it out and hold it close to my thigh so it doesn’t attract attention, but I’m ready at a moment’s notice. I keep a smaller one in my running belt for every time I go…
I wish endometriosis and all the symptoms that go along with it was legitimized as a reason to stay home sick from work. There’s nothing worse than the judgy looks I get from co-workers when I’m actually honest about why I have to stay home, as if I’m just being dramatic. I feel like…
I’d post the depressing picture of my high school resource classroom crammed with desks and the bottle of 70% alcohol hand sanitizer that my district gave me, but what’s the point. Our voices won’t be heard and kids will come streaming back into the building no matter what we do.…
My grandmother (on the right) was born in Guyana and moved to Trinidad with her family as a teenager. Here she is in her early twenties, swimming with a friend.
When I graduated in 2000, my best friend and I drove away in my 1986 Volvo, only to have it break down on the side of the road a mile later. We had to stand beside the smoking engine as all 500 people we just graduated with crept by in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
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