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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!If we want to improve schools and education, why is it the powers that be listen to everyone’s opinion except those that know best — the classroom teacher. Geeez, do you think the one on the front line seeing […]

I was a classroom teacher for almost twenty years. Eighth grade Language Arts. A very common question I hear is, “Why aren’t you teaching anymore?” It is not an easy question to answer because it is one of those things that if you haven’t been there, the answer often doesn’t make sense to the questioner. […]