Posts Tagged ‘school’

Back when my sons were teens in high school, they came home telling me stories of how the fire alarm had been pranked day after day. It had gotten to the point that the administration and its teachers were announcing, “Disregard the alarm,” without stopping to check it out. That is scary. [...]

My fellow teachers are returning to school and their classes once again tomorrow. I found myself thinking about what my top tip to students and parents would be. I remembered how back in my own teaching days, all thirty-five years of them, boys and girls who regularly ate breakfast did far better [...]

I never fully realized how school affected kids and teachers until after I retired. Up to that time, I was sick every fall. I often suspected that it was a workplace building problem. Then I realized that it was the sheer number of children in the building in close contact with one [...]