Taylor the Teacher

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!If I’m in public, and a child under ten is being obnoxious, that is absolutely the parents’ responsibility. Notice I didn’t say it was your fault. There is NO FAULT at this point. I, the childless adult, do not judge […]

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There were so many worthy candidates for this list, but since I want to have some fun on New Year’s Eve, here is the short list of people who need to kiss my plastic white ass.
Nick Saban

Nick Satan Saban used to be our coach. When we hired him, it was a big deal to us, […]

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I’m writing this post to reach out to mommy bloggers in an effort to start a conversation. If this conversation is going on elsewhere, could someone please direct me to it? I’ve been looking to join that conversation for a while. I’m politely asking permission to crash your party.
If I can figure out […]

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I’m trying my best to speak for a segment of teachers. If you listen and decide I’m full of crap, that’s fine. Just know that, down here in the blogosphere, we’re trying like hell to figure out how best to prepare your children. I may not be that voice that can say what teachers need […]

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This week was Christmas, and I’m pissed off about my job. So I’ve not been watching news or reading anything serious online because I can’t have any presidential stupidity threatening the peace of my holiday.
That means I’m out of the loop.
Then again, who am I kidding? I never stay in one loop long […]

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~~ I love Allen Ginsberg’s Howl. So many interesting turns of phrase. But I’ve only just discovered it. I once assigned Ginsberg to a 9th grader and his mother had a fit. Oops. “Windows of the Skull” came from that poem, which I title this post because it’s more like a Twitter bomb than a […]

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This photo is so beautiful that I want to put it on my desktop. But I’m still enjoying this one.
I love Christmas. Thanks for the excellent photos, Heather.

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Related quote from contemporary lyric poetry, a la Edgar Allan Poe:
Or for anyone who’s ever been through shit in their lives
Till they sit and they cry at night, wishing they died
So they throw on a rap record, and they sit and they vibe
                                           Sing for the Moment by Marshall Mathers.
                                          You know, the one and […]

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Teacher bloggers make asides in their blogs about how nobody reads except teachers. This is always said with a wink because deep down we all want it this way. It’s that us-four-no-more thing that happens at church. And between Larry and the Beeve.
Blogging will fail as a tool for widespread change in the education system […]

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This has been a strange Christmas. We usually get our tree around Thanksgiving, but a combination of budgetary concerns and various illnesses has put it off until today.
We were going to get the tree yesterday, but the weather was un*bear*able. Totally overcast, freezing. Raining. We just stayed in bed.
It was FREEZING. And our house […]

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