Shortest retirement in history!
Since I have five dogs and one cat, a few months before retirement, I started looking more closely at my finances. Even with my retirement, things would be tight. I had signed up last year with some...
View Article16 years later……
I will press the send button on the following email the day of my retirement. This harkens back to an incident that occured during the middle of the reconstitution of Fremont High when I was...
View ArticleThe Long and Winding Road 2003- 2026
I woke up one day a few months ago and realized it was time to retire. I have lasted exactly 24.6 years (some of that from previous subbing) in the behemoth educational institution that is LAUSD. The...
View ArticleJewish teacher in NY harassed for pro-Israel stance
I probably shouldn’t write while I am angry, but this event got me to post for the first time in three and a half years. And I am definitely not going to post the photo of the Jamaica Queens, NY...
View ArticleStaying at home has been the best thing that ever happened to me as a teacher
I guess I should feel guilty that I have been teaching at home since mid March of 2020 because of Covid, but I don’t. My luck further improved in June when I got a job as a non-roster carrying teacher...
View ArticleEduspeak: One Reason the Real Issues of Education Are Never Discussed
So you might be thinking, “Come on, you’re overreacting. Every profession has annoying, cliched jargon.” Yes, but it usually isn’t weaponized to shame members of that profession with legitimate...
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Disaster Zone USA: Politically, Racially, Economically, Socially and...
Protester holding a photo of George Floyd, 2020 Teachers, parents and students hold press conference to protest the reconstitution of Fremont High School It’s the tenth anniversary...
View ArticleDon’t Play it Again, Travis
Fascinating California governor’s candidate debate carried live on NBC Los Angeles, inexplicably sans the front runner, Gavin Newsome but with two Republican candidates, the most obnoxious of which...
View ArticleYou’ve Got a Friend
Tonight was Open House at my new school, Arleta High School, a little gem in a part of the San Fernando Valley sandwiched between Sylmar and Pacoima. Since I no longer have my own classroom, I...
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Respect Yourself
“If you disrespect anybody that you run in to How in the world do you think anybody’s s’posed to respect you” – The Staple Singers...
View ArticleSome progressives shoot themselves in the foot and endanger an emerging...
It has been a stunning two weeks of watching the rise of a movement of teenagers determined that the horrible school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School would be the last. As students...
View ArticleTeacher is a four – letter word
I emailed the letter below to Jamie Alter -Lynton, the founder of the corporate education blog LA School Report, a blog for those who love education but not teachers. They pretend to love teachers,...
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Duck and Cover Your Ass
The gate leading into the Belmont High -Sal Castro Middle School- Newmark Continuation School complex, a gate I often walked through to go to work. Student suspected of bringing pistol to school....
View ArticleA Moment Changes Everything
I haven’t written about Fremont or education in quite a long time. Part of it is shell shock from the current dystopian presidential administration spewing “alternative facts” and deporting immigrants...
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The Song Remains the Same
As teachers, we shouldn’t comfort ourselves too much into thinking much has changed in the LAUSD teacher purge department since Deasy’s drama-laden departure. A substitute teacher told me a story...
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And the greatest of these is love. Go Bernie
Well it looks like Bernie won’t let the DNC and establishment Dems get on with their “regularly scheduled programming.” He just won Indiana. I am in awe that the youngest people in this country are...
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Don’t Believe Everything You Hear
I attended the last showing of Verdugo Hills High’s wonderful production of Hairspray tonight, and in attendance was Dr. Trimis, the VHHS former principal who was kicked to the curb about a month...
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Perspectives
It’s great to have someone in your corner when you are a teacher. Today, that turned out to be a great resource specialist, Mr. Dixon, who comes once a week to our school to service the special ed...
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Good Vibrations
My students are fantastic and have kept me focused on my real priorities. Now that my coworkers have figured out I have disengaged from any interaction with them and I have posted the LAUSD...
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Cold Comfort
The Vergara decision was overturned today, which was not unexpected. Virtually every legal expert said it would be. Here is a letter I wrote to the LA School Report, the biased blog of the corporate...
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