The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings March 6, 2020 The inability of surmounting learning difficulties   It has been a few months since my surgical procedure to repair my Achilles tendon. I have been extremely occupied with school lately testing and IEP’s. I had forgotten that two years or so ago I had four surgeries over about eight weeks.…

Bird Droppings March 5, 2020 Seeking perfection in a world full of mud “I have found there are those who can write and speak fluently and yet do not have anything to say and then there are those who have something to say who may not be so fluent. The big question is who do,…

Bird Droppings March 4, 2020 Teachers! We should always be near the edge.   I remember taking groups hiking in North Georgia and always there is that one person who has to be at the edge of a gorge or edge of the trail dropping two hundred feet down looking over and nearly falling. A…

Bird Droppings March 4, 2020 We need LOVE   Sometimes we so easily use the word love. It gets used daily by many folks and yet do we truly have any conception of what it is we speak. I was just in a conversation and the word love came up, I responded how we each…

March 2, 2020 Looking for a reason for kids to go bad   “Come; let us put our minds together to see what kind of life we can create for our children.” Sitting Bull, Lakota Sioux   Almost twenty years have passed since I did a research paper on the causes of various emotional issues…

Bird Droppings March 1, 2020 I am pondering about Dr. Carl G. Jung and “school reform”. I find the answer is simple, CARING.   “If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.” Carl…

Bird Droppings February 28, 2020 Thinking about other times   “The song that I will sing is an old song, so old that none knows who made it. It has been handed down through generations and was taught to me when I was but a little lad. It is now my own song. It belongs…

Bird Droppings February 27, 2020 A morning meandering while the moon is glowing   Last night as I took the dog out for one last pee break a smiling moon overhead. I started thinking back to tutoring a student trying to get caught up and return to public school. Eventually, she went on a different…

Bird Droppings February 26, 2020 Reading a friend’s book a sixth time   I was so tired when I laid down last night after leaving the high school, driving around doing errands, cooking supper, and attempting to get into my reading and writing. My youngest son in now a nurse at Children’s Hospital in Atlanta,…

Bird Droppings February 25, 2020 It has been a long time   “Teaching is a lifelong moral quest. You never have it exactly right and you keep trying to get better at it. You keep learning from your students and what they are going through, how you can do things better.” Nel Noddings   I…