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The Return of the girl with the black eye Part III: Snitches Get Stitches and end up in Ditches

Posted by The Awkward Educator | On: Apr 10 2012 | Comments (0)
Before reading the Part III of the girl with the black eye’s return, be sure to read Part I and Part II. I sat in my empty classroom alone for twenty minutes after the day’s end bell rang. It was silent but I could not hear.  My head was filled with the noise...

The Return of the Girl with the Black Eye Part II: The Reason She is the way She is

Posted by The Awkward Educator | On: Mar 21 2012 | Comments (0)
The girl with the black eye . . . Before reading Part II of “The Return of the Girl with the Black Eye” be sure to read Part I. “He did this to me,” she screamed, single drops of tears still squeezing out of her swollen shut eyelid, like rain through a...

The Return of the Girl with the Black Eye

Posted by The Awkward Educator | On: Mar 20 2012 | Comments (0)
The girl with the black eye . . . The girl with the black eye has been returned to my classroom.  Like  a shiny wrapped box with a bow under the ChristmasTree, she appeared unexpectedly.  What a gift.  She was supposed to be suspended for two weeks due to her...

The New Dean’s Game of Chess: Part Two of His Introduction

Posted by The Awkward Educator | On: Mar 11 2012 | Comments (2)
Before reading the conclusion of The Dean of Discipline’s Introduction, be sure to check out the first part of the story here. With the auditorium now completely under his control and even the higher-ups surrendering their full attention to him, The Dean continued...

The girl with the black eye

Posted by The Awkward Educator | On: Feb 27 2012 | Comments (0)
The girl with the black eye . . .   At some point during my old life, before my Tuesday night’s were scheduled around parties instead of PTA meetings, when I was the carefree student and not the stressed out teacher, a wise woman told me, “a lion keepers...