http://aaron219.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ Thoughts and tales from a teacher in the Mississippi Delta en Vox Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:04:07 -0800 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/ncaa-seedings.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Aaron) http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/ncaa-seedings.html?_c=feed-rss http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/ncaa-seedings.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:04:07 -0800 Of course there is still some basketball to be played before tournament time, but I took my list of 65 and broke them down into seeds if the tournament were to start today. Of course, there will be some flip-flopping and shifting, but what's the ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/ncaa-seedings.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd9730dc0c4cd500e398dee44d0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> ncaa basketball college sports tournament seedings http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/its-almost-time.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Aaron) http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/its-almost-time.html?_c=feed-rss http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/its-almost-time.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:32:45 -0800 March Madness is on the horizon, and in honor of this sacred tradition, I will, in addition to already taking the first Thursday and Friday of games off of school, offer my predictions for the field of 65. I won't try to make predictions of seeds... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/its-almost-time.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd9730dc0c4cd500f48cdcb7840002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> ncaa basketball sports gambling march madness http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/what-am-i-to-do.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Aaron) http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/what-am-i-to-do.html?_c=feed-rss http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/what-am-i-to-do.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:23:34 -0800 75% of my 5th period class is either on probation or has been at some point in their short life. From assault to car theft and just about everything in between, someone in that class has done it. How can a writing assignment or any other consequ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/what-am-i-to-do.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd9730dc0c4cd500f48cfb64d60001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> crime education poverty discipline probation http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/crappy-parent-of-the-week-vol-4-february-18-24-2008.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Aaron) http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/crappy-parent-of-the-week-vol-4-february-18-24-2008.html?_c=feed-rss http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/crappy-parent-of-the-week-vol-4-february-18-24-2008.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:15:01 -0800 This month's crappy parent hits home for most of my readers as we visit the Bluff City. Memphis police have charged James Hawkins with first-degree murder in the death of his live-in girlfriend Charlene Gaither. Police claim that after murde... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/crappy-parent-of-the-week-vol-4-february-18-24-2008.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd9730dc0c4cd500f48cdca6e80002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> parents death violence child abuse http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/crappy-parent-of-the-week-vol-3-january-14-20-2008.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Aaron) http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/crappy-parent-of-the-week-vol-3-january-14-20-2008.html?_c=feed-rss http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/crappy-parent-of-the-week-vol-3-january-14-20-2008.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:49:25 -0800 After a four week hiatus for the holiday season, we come back with our first "Crappy Parent of the Week" Award for 2008. There were several nominees to choose from, as the holiday season really seems to bring out the whack-o child abusers, but th... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/crappy-parent-of-the-week-vol-3-january-14-20-2008.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd9730dc0c4cd500e398d2a55e0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> parents violence child abuse http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/crappy-parent-of-the-week---vol2-dec17-23-2007.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Aaron) http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/crappy-parent-of-the-week---vol2-dec17-23-2007.html?_c=feed-rss http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/crappy-parent-of-the-week---vol2-dec17-23-2007.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:10:03 -0800 This week, we travel north up to the South Side of Chicago for our "Crappy Parent of the Week," where we find 24-year-old Lakeshia Murph behind bars for the death of her 2-year-old son, Brandon. According to the Chicago Tribune, Murph was fed up ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/crappy-parent-of-the-week---vol2-dec17-23-2007.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd9730dc0c4cd500e398c966950001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> parents death chicago poverty child abuse http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/crappy-parent-of-the-week---vol-1-december-9-16-2007.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Aaron) http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/crappy-parent-of-the-week---vol-1-december-9-16-2007.html?_c=feed-rss http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/crappy-parent-of-the-week---vol-1-december-9-16-2007.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:15:54 -0800 With so many stories of terrible parents, its not hard to figure out why so many of our youngsters are turning out the way they are. With that in mind, I will be highlighting great examples of terrible parenting starting this week. Our first win... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/crappy-parent-of-the-week---vol-1-december-9-16-2007.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd9730dc0c4cd500e398c744c40004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> parents crime poverty child abuse http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/in-the-words-of-clark-griswold-hallelujah-holy.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Aaron) http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/in-the-words-of-clark-griswold-hallelujah-holy.html?_c=feed-rss http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/in-the-words-of-clark-griswold-hallelujah-holy.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:47:40 -0700 At least somebody gets it... The following is an column originally printed in the March 7th edition of USA Today. For once, blame the student By Patrick Welsh Failure in the classroom is often tied to lack of funding, poor teachers or other ill... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/in-the-words-of-clark-griswold-hallelujah-holy.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd9730dc0c4cd500e398acb20c0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> education motivation no child left behind failing schools http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/we-dont-need-no-water-let-the-mother-burn-or-how-to-avoid-burnout.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Aaron) http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/we-dont-need-no-water-let-the-mother-burn-or-how-to-avoid-burnout.html?_c=feed-rss http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/we-dont-need-no-water-let-the-mother-burn-or-how-to-avoid-burnout.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:15:32 -0700 Burnout is going to happen to some degree. Accept this now, and it will be a whole lot easier down the road. Its part of the experience of being a teacher. You'll get so sick of some of the crap that teachers deal with and you will just feel l... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/we-dont-need-no-water-let-the-mother-burn-or-how-to-avoid-burnout.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd9730dc0c4cd500d4144adc846a47?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/6a00cd9730dc0c4cd500d414467d776a47.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Aaron) http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/6a00cd9730dc0c4cd500d414467d776a47.html?_c=feed-rss http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/6a00cd9730dc0c4cd500d414467d776a47.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:03:00 -0700 Summer school seems to be an overwhelming success for the one student in our classroom. She excels at just about everything that is given to her, and sometimes it makes us as teachers wonder how in the world she ended up in summer school. In parti... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://aaron219.vox.com/library/post/6a00cd9730dc0c4cd500d414467d776a47.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd9730dc0c4cd500d414467d776a47?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p>