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A colleague sent this one to me recently, and it’s dead on. Most students (well, a lot anyway) are very pleasant to work with, but there are a few that make you want to jam your thumbs in your eyes. All teachers have had their share of such students. A typical exchange is illustrated brilliantly [...]

I’m a vegetarian and have been for many years now. Even so, I can respect cuisine of all varieties (even if I don’t eat it)–of the carnivorous persuasion and otherwise. It’s shocking, however, to consider the variety of disgusting processed byproducts our fast-food nation passes off as food–especially to our children. Jamie Oliver demonstrates this [...]

Sometimes our fears get the best of us. But other times our desire to become more than we are today pushes us past those fears into risky territory–full of promise and peril. For adults this can be life shaking. For kids, it’s just growing up. This past weekend, Aidan who is 7 now showed us [...]