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Once a year someone stays after the bell and says they are done. I do not give them the speech about potential. I ask what hour of the day is the bad one.
Last spring it was third period, the class after a job that ends at 1 a.m. We moved one required essay to a lunch block and he finished the year.
He did not become a historian. He graduated. That is the outcome I am willing to say out loud.
The freshman book puts the Great Miami River on the wrong side of the old mill in the 1913 flood chapter. I noticed it in my second year and I have been correcting it out loud ever since. This fall a student, Mara, brought in a library map and showed the class the bend the…
I type the weekly plan into the school system every Sunday night. I still start on a yellow pad. Last week the pad showed me I had given the Chapter 12 reading and the quiz on the same night. The screen would have let me save it. The pad made the collision obvious because I…