TRICK OR TREAT THOUGHTS
A Golden Chalk Award goes to any elementary school teacher who actually manages to get their students to learn something, anything, curriculum related on Halloween.
Elementary school teachers aren’t paid nearly enough for working on Halloween. There needs to be a bonus just for showing up.
If you are a substitute teacher and you get a phone call from a school on Halloween morning, DON’T ANSWER IT NO MATTER WHAT. Unless you have masochistic tendencies.
Years ago we had “bobbing for apples” as an activity during class parties. Can you imagine having a tub of water with apples and students doing that today? After twenty students had put their mouths in the water, there was saliva, snot, bitten pieces of apple, sweat, and God knows what floating in the unchanged water. Those students