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Tim Barrus: Public Schools Are Finished
I am a communist. I am a writer. Did someone say rejection. The Shibboleth. “Waiting Times” are measured in years. They’re ghosting you. Rejection is when your agent hasn’t called you ever. But you keep waiting because you are a writer and you have hope. Hope is a rarity as…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
My classroom was filled with adolescent boys who had failed at everything. Violence on steroids. EduPsychoBabble. We called them Severeley Emotionally Disturbed. The teachers of typical children loved you now. Don’t come into my classroom because meltdowns were every hour of every day. Any stranger in the room was fresh…