The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings February 14, 2017 It is only a dropped feather?   “If we consider the eagle feather with its light and dark colors, we could argue that ‘the dark colors are more beautiful and, therefore, naturally more valuable,’ or vice versa. Regardless of which colors are more beautiful, or necessary, or valuable, the truth…

Bird Droppings February 13, 2017 Is it saying goodbye or is it hello?   It might have been the fact I had never pulled out my Eagle Scout card from 1967 in class before that got me thinking back. While mired in controversy nationally in recent years the Boy Scouts of America have contributed greatly…

Bird Droppings February 10, 2017 What if treaties and promises were all kept   I begin each typical morning waking up and finding my way to my computer taking the dog out if he wants to, checking my iPad, making sure my connection is on or network up since we have an archaic internet provider…

Bird Droppings February 9, 2017 Trust and how we have such a hard time with it   So many special events coming up, Valentine’s Day, more “possible” snow, income taxes, and best of all one more week till winter break. Do I go out and cut down a tree, I wouldn’t know how to decorate?…

Bird Droppings February 7, 2017 Should our children be going to school?   After reading Joel Spring’s book, Political Agendas for Education, one might wonder why we even have schools. Spring’s implies they are simply to create and mold youth into whatever it is those in power deem feasible. His idea is that it is…

Bird Droppings February 3, 2017 The inter-connectivity of all that is; Is it a puzzle falling in place?   On Monday of this week my co-teaching partner shared a card with me from one of our students. At the beginning of the semester we hand out a card and the kids fill in information about themselves. This…

Bird Droppings February 2, 2017 writing for some, seems so difficult in a digital world   “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldus Huxley   In 1965 I was introduced to this author in a tenth grade English Class. The book was…

Bird Droppings February 2, 2017 Solitude is within ones soul and heart   “No person, standing before this mystery, has the wisdom or the knowledge to see across the curtain. But for those who stand before their dead with aching hearts and tear filled eyes, one affirmation endures..one truth remains…and one light shines clear. Where…