Talking to Chino the other day about what we were going to be up to in the coming weeks I realized that he was now done with school pretty much forever and that from this point on in his life, he was just kinda living. For pretty much ever, I’ve always had school as sort …
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Fuck You Michael Vick
A few weeks ago, Michael Vick visited some New Haven schools (not ours) as a hero come back to excite kids about learning and school and warn them away from dog fighting. Some of my students asked me if I liked him and I just told them “I hope he dies in a fire.” In …
Aspirations 2011
I think New Year’s Resolutions are pretty stupid. If you think about wanting to do something, you should just do it then. Or at least start feeling guilty about putting it off right then. You don’t need to wait until the new year to start getting in shape or reading more books or volunteering at …