Education

there were a handful of real stars, but far more punching the clock til they hit retirement. a few were both.
even the stars had trouble w my rebellious kids.

i homeschooled for 8 yrs, in part cuz when i took my 5 yo to an open house at the local school, the teacher looked right past my son and asked me what his name was. there were almost zip toys in the overcrowded classroom. they had the old version of little people, the wooden peg ones. he had tons of the other ones, but had never seen the old ones. he cried half the way home because he wanted to check them out. but i knew that was an hour out of the school year he'd enjoy, bug most days i'd have a crying kid in my lap.

i've had a lot of convos like this here. i support public education, but we do ourselves no favors by lionizing teachers and burying their failures.