New Athenian Academy

I find myself dodging the question of political affiliation many times in class and today was no exception.  Students ask me either straight out or by beating around the bush “Are you a Democrat or Republican?”   How do I answer?  or do I? I think all teachers (at least teachers of high school social studies) run [...]

Does anyone remember the days when we drank milk from paper cartons and on the back there were pictures of missing children?   I do and I want to add another category to the milk carton: missing teachers. During this school year, two teachers have been “let go” without so much as a word of warning [...]