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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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Write A 2-Page Report On Your Field Trip 2 The Slaughterhouse
We were not supposed to be there. I cannot tell you how we got in. If I did that, the lives of those who get us in once a year would be in gave danger. They would be murdered. They live with thousands of deaths every day. I am not…
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Tim Barrus, NYT
Tim Barrus, New York Times I worked in Special Education for years. With the “bad” kids. How bad were the Bad Boys. You don’t want to know. We had a category (for everything) called SED. Severely Emotionally Disturbed. In Special Ed, we threw a lot of words around. The language…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
I home school my boys. Public school sees them as failures. This stigma covers them like sewage. It does not wash away. Here’s what my boys can do. Find kids lost in the mountain woods we live in. Train dogs. Train dogs to find kids lost in the mountain woods.…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
Trump happened. This American enigma has devastated and wiped out an incomprehensible number of American lives. And then, there are lives standing at edges of the abyss. So much of America is holding its cumulative breath waiting to see if their government is able to respond to their collective need…
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School
I have been asked to return to teaching. It is a horrifying thought. I have years of experience teaching on the Internet. School is a nightmare, and it sucks cock. Can you even imagine me returning to the digital classroom. A classroom is a classroom. Hey, I’m just like the…
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The History of Getting Home
we were the boys who sat in the back of the class/ hoping against hope that no one would call on us/ bradon threw the football so hard that it hit bobby in the face and knocked him out/ we stood over him and kicked him to get up/ https://timbarrus.tumblr.com
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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…