New Athenian Academy

I want to run you through my day today:   8-9am — gave a final to one student that took 20 minutes, then watched Shrek 9:05-10:10 – supervised study hall, then watched Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 10:15-11:45 — watched Elf (one of 4 movies the middle and high schoolers could choose to watch) 11:50-12:20 – ate lunch [...]

The other day my high schoolers started to jokingly refer to me as their mom… which brought up an interesting dilemma.  What is my role as the teacher?  Am I part mom, part educator?  Or, do I just focus on the academic education of my students? In a way, this dilemma is less of a [...]