will you take me?

31Oct07

the little booger spat on me today.
three times. he did it three times.
i was a bit upset that this little third grade kid hocked a loogie on me when i encouraged him to take a seat.
i fully understood that this kid’s needy. he rarely receives love from adults. [...]

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tired of all this ign’ance

11Oct07

in the wake of jena 6, there have been a bunch of copycat hate crimes involving nooses…
At a Home Depot store in South Elgin, Ill
on the campus of the University of Maryland
in a police-station locker room in Hempstead, N.Y.
at two Coast Guard facilities
at high schools in North Carolina and South Carolina
at least two cases of [...]

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kozol in seattle!

08Oct07

this weekend, i had the good fortune of seeing the great jonathan kozol lecture at the seattle central library. he’s touring the country to promote a book he just wrote called letters to a young teacher, a collection of letters he wrote to a new first grade teacher working at the same low-income school [...]

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darfur is so last year

01Oct07

i was listening to a really interesting discussion on the radio a little while back en route to my internship.
it was about the faddish/ narcissistic nature of social justice — a term, they noted, that everyone embraces but no one cares to define.
faddish because it is so darn cool to be into social [...]

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