Join something.
When I imagined my retirement from teaching I thought of it as a distinct moment. One day I would be an active teacher. The next day I would be a retiree.Not quite.
It is true that on June 8th I walked out of the door of my school for the last time as a teacher.
But there are other moments.
The day I got notice of my first Teacher Retirement System check being direct deposited into my bank account
Hack journalism.
Sometimes I will get a phone call or an email from somebody who disagrees with me and asks, “What kind of journalist ARE you?”
And I reply, “I’m NOT a journalist. I’m a teacher who happens to blog.”
But unlike Scott Reeder, who claims to be a journalist, I don’t tell lies.
Scott Reeder calls himself “a veteran statehouse reporter and the journalist in residence at the Illinois Policy Institute, writes a weekly column for the Rockford Register Star and rrstar.com.”
The IPI is a corporate think tank and lobbying outfit that hates unions and is pushing for the destruction of public