Being a substitute teacher at Pulaski County Special School District boils down to one thing – you are a per-diem employee that can be dismissed at any time for any reason. However, given that there are so few substitutes available, most schools simply ban bad substitutes – it’s rare that you hear of one get […]
When I was in high school, which was only a decade ago, it was a better time than today. While I wasn’t enrolled in the district I currently teach in, I’ve seen pictures of kids then and I see them now, and today is clearly more oppressive. We thought we had it bad in high […]
When I was in middle school, which was around the time modern high school students were born, there was a new phrasing of an old word that had really taken over the scene. For a long time the word meant happy and then, later, the word changed to mean homosexual; by the year 2000, the […]
Having lived in Little Rock for a while, and always cruising Craigslist in whatever location I am in (even in Taiwan, where no one uses it), I posted the following reaction to the ads I was seeing on there. This is what I wrote: Honestly, ladies, it’s not that I don’t […]
Substitute teachers have a few different brands. You were a kid once. Maybe you still are. You know the drill. There’s a reverse bell curve, with “insanely strict substitutes” on one end and “totally aloof substitutes” on the other end. The minority find themselves in the middle – 90% of subs are super strict […]
Teaching has its various merits and drawbacks, for me. First of all, no matter what educational bracket you are in, academia is the lowest income bracket you are looking at. This is why most teachers do lots of extra stuff – anything from coaching sports teams to staying after school to monitor kids getting […]
I’ve come to realize, over the last few months, that I’m in a unique position. Since returning to the USA in December on 2011, I began substitute teaching at Pulaski County Special School District at the end of January. I have worked the last 45 out of 55 working days, the majority of my work being at […]
David’s Burgers has done well for itself in Central Arkansas – after starting in Conway, their West Little Rock location has been open less than a year, and they are already creating a third one elsewhere – for a high-end hamburger joint to be that successful in this economy, you really know all you need […]