Yesterday I was in my all-too-usual state of barely suppressed frustration. I was thinking of all the tasks on my to-do list, and how most of those tasks will only need to be redone in a matter of hours, days, or a week at most. Dishes, laundry, bill-paying, cleaning the floor that looks streaky and [...]
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Posted in daily-life, family, life, life-in-general, marriage, teaching, writing on January 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
No Cure for Apathy
Posted in life, teaching on December 16, 2007 | 32 Comments »
I have a bright, articulate student whose ability to think abstractly and express his opinions has occasionally left me speechless.
He is failing my class.
He has no less than five zeros in my gradebook for this past quarter alone. The assignments he has turned in lately have been way below par (one was less than [...]
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