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Posts tagged with education
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How 2 Beat Authority
I attended a violent high school. Teachers were overwhelmed. One broke my bones and made me walk to a hospital on a broken leg. Death threats every single day. Humiliation every single day. Degradation every single day. Enforced nudity every single day. Our problems had nothing to do with pushups.…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I have done a lot of things with my life. Most of it has been a huge waste of time. I carry around a zillion regrets. But being a part of the very complex process of facilitating deaf four-year-olds with how to read and write, was the best thing I…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
I am a communist. I am also a teacher, a writer, a photographer, and the voice of doom. Who knows what education will look like in the future. Robots will take the place of classroom instruction. We can’t find enough teachers. Technology will save us or will it. Parents Night…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
I find myself writing about education again. Is there anyone still standing who believes public education has not failed as an institution. They put my special ed class down in the boiler room (kids called it the boiler maker) so no one had to see us. We had separate playgrounds.…
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Appalachia Town
San Francisco Town. Tenderloin Town. Jones Street Town. “Rome never really burned. It smoldered for centuries.” It’s still there. Like New Jersey. I have never been to New Jersey. I could do Boca Raton Town but they would cancel my passport. New York Times Town. Enough. Dirt Bike Town and…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
The New York Times keeps trying to cover – the NEW education. How do we change what gets delivered to children has to be delivered to children. Now, let us go to special education. No one wants to talk about special ed as it is juxtaposed with typical children being…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Often, New York Times writers do not want to know too much because knowing too much is always trouble. It can seem like the writer has a preference within the context of one side to an issue or another. This is because the anecdotal is so pissed on. It can…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
When it comes to reopening schools in the middle of a Covid pandemic, foster children walk a very fine line. It is very easy for them to lose their balance. When we cover parenting, we forget about thousands when we leave foster parenting out of our focus. Foster parents are…
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A SHIRT I WOULD NEVER WEAR
BECAUSE WHENEVER I WEAR THIS SHIRT, MEAN AND CRUEL CHILDREN FROM OUTER SPACE THROW STICKS, USED TIRES, AND GIN BOTTLES AT ME AND I CANNOT WALK DOWN THE STREET.
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in these appalachian hills
in these appalachian hills groaning under not an anchor but a lack of them reading itself is like the scrap dealer bent so close to poverty one can only wonder why it is white people mainly cannot bring themselves to understand that reading is a warship that has kissed the…
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How Do We Reach the Hard-to-Reach
I call them Boys-At-Risk. The label is inaccurate. It puts human beings in a box we don’t want to look at, and it’s language as racism personified. I loathe the terminology. But I am at a loss, not in terms of examining the many challenges, but how do I reach…
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Everyone Has Something They Can Do
adults describe him as He Can’t Do Shit/ He Can’t Do Shit has alienated just about every adult he has crossed paths with especially teachers teachers would like to wring his neck/ cops2/ 3principals/ social workers by the dozens, and every single solitary member of his family/ if you ask…
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He Cannot Swim
I knew right away that this kid was going to push every button he could push. And then, he did. He’s draining but I have this magic weapon I can and do use which is called I CAN TURN AWAY AND STOP GIVING HIM ATTENTION WHEN HE BEGINS ANOTHER DESTRUCTION…