English teachers beware
It's been awhile since I've signed into my blog, and now that I have given up facebook, I intend to spend more time writing. I found this draft from last summer sitting in my dashboard. One year later, I still feel it is very relevant to the crazy world of public school teaching. Here’s the thing: I think I’m a bad teacher. I don’t want to be a bad teacher, but I decided I must be because I could not answer the following question posed by a bunch of English teachers: How do historians use writing? Um...to express ideas? In truth, I’m not sure it is different from other disciplines, other than the obvious: 1. it is actually interesting and 2. it has no bias (ahem). Here’s my secret on why I wanted to be a teacher. It was not to ponder questions such as the one above. I wanted to be a teacher because I thought teachers were role models and, here’s the crazy bit, I fancied myself a good role model, especially compared to the World At Large. I vote, I recy