Category: teaching

Best compliment. ever.

Student, out of the blue, during second period: “Mr. Wells, do you remember when we were learning about poetry during our sophomore year?”

ave to admit, I’m not always the social peach I usually portray. I have my grumpy days, I have the days when I’ve got a hair-trigger… and yesterday was one of those days. I had not slept well the night before and I was fully prepared to hold the world and its occupants responsible for that.

With the rapid and consistent decline of the economy, the important of education is becoming more apparent… and it’s not looking good. There is talk of the state denying payment to the school districts for 15 school days or even a whole month.

In the space of a couple of days we actually had, not one, but two actual fire alarms at the high school. Pretty interesting stuff you consider we have a fire drill at least every month. The first was your run-of-the-mill elevator shaft filled with smoke because of leaking hydraulic fluid which was dripping onto the elevator motor.