Kids Say The Darndest Things

The other day Michael happened to be in the office while a new student was being registered. The student, a boy who is probably seven years old, was there with his mother. The TA’s were telling the mother about the help available for students outside of class when the boy interrupted: “Oh, I won’t need […]

It’s HitlerMania!

The other day in class, my high school students were telling me about things they’re grateful for. That’s how I found out that Bernice really likes Nazis. At first I thought her classmates were teasing her, so we opened the floor for Bernice to defend herself. “I like Germany the country.” “Well, that doesn’t mean […]

Separate but equal

As part of my  lesson plan to teach American culture and history, this week I started teaching the Declaration of Independence to my high school kids. Apparently I couldn’t have timed things worse–after some prompting, my students informed me that this weekend one of the papers ran an entire ad-free issue entitled something like “American […]

Sometimes kids don’t get it

I hope everyone has a great Valentine’s Day. I spent it with my students teaching them how to make paper hearts and making pig hats (see photo–the coming lunar year is the Year of the Pig). We decided to make the paper hearts into valentines for our mothers, so I had them copy “Happy Valentine’s […]