Comments on: I’m a Motherf*kin’ Problem [Genesis of a Nemesis Series]

By: Pam Thompson

Pam Thompson — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:59:57 +0000

A reminder that sometimes we react too quickly and take things for granted. Even in the comfortable suburbs in which I live & teach there are similar stories and we need to stay aware of them. thank you for sharing and raising awareness.

By: ken

ken — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:22:10 +0000

A lot of questions here, and I’m fretting b/c I have few answers (not that you were looking for anyone, especially me, to answer them).

If I add anything to this ‘conversation’, it needs to come by way of a quick, true story:

A young girl stays after class every day. Long enough so that it’s just her and the teacher. But she moves closer and closer to the door as students begin to arrive for the next class. She wants to tell me something.

Finally, a half day. When class is over, students leave, but again, she stays. Today she tells me. Today she shows me. Every streak of scorched skin on her back.

Her father found another use for an extension cord.

By: Jose

Jose — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:10:08 +0000

Wow, thank you all for your replies.

Amber, thank you. And stop hanging up your keyboard. You’re awesome in your own right.

James, that’s the serious. Can it be that it was all so simple then?

Laniza, hope you like what I just posted.

Tiki, I wonder the same thing too. It’s amazing how, despite the odds, some students still make it.

By: Tiki Martin

Tiki Martin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:38:08 +0000

I wonder about the definition of appropriate as well. Once I meet some of DAEP kiddo’s parents, I wonder how they manage to be as functional as they are.

By: laniza

laniza — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:54:09 +0000

I’m reading… curious how you’re going to flip this.

By: A Severe Case Of The Yeah-Buts | Graham Wegner - Open Educator

A Severe Case Of The Yeah-Buts | Graham Wegner - Open Educator — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:39:14 +0000

[...] that seems to be this way. Especially as our students on the whole don’t experience life to this degree. But a significant number (enough to be bugging me and both my co-planning buddy and tandem [...]

By: James Vilson

James Vilson — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:19:33 +0000

A dark, but “real” look at day-to-day stuggles of some single mothers and the effects of absent fathers on a young man’s (even young lady’s) life. Good work bro!

By: Amber

Amber — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:57:50 +0000

wow. 180 readers.
*hangs up keyboard.

good shit.