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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

NYC Educator: School's in for Summer

NYC Educator: School's in for Summer:


School's in for Summer

I've never worked summer school before, but I've also found that a strange entropy seems to overtake me by the second week of August.  I think it's because I don't have kids of my own and Mr. Eyre works in the Big City, so I'm alone for long stretches of time in the summer.  On the surface I don't mind this, but I decided it might be better for my mental health to work at least a little this summer.  So I'm teaching two weeks of summer school.

This is not as bad as I feared it might be.  I'm working a"Bridge Academy" because my genius principal figured out how to afford it, and getting to know the incoming 9th graders