Frozen carrots on a stick
This is an excellent reminder about how fortunate we are. I think I’ll show it to my students the next time they complain that the cafeteria has run out of…
Harry Dicks is almost worse.
Late last summer, a judge in the town of Newport, Tennessee ordered that a 7-month old boy’s name be changed from Messiah to Martin, saying that “it’s a title that…
Baby pushing baby
My wife played with the stroller that my son is pushing as a child. I have nothing like that from my childhood. I have nothing at all from my childhood…
What teachers know about bedtimes
New, compelling research on the connection between sleep and student success: Researchers reporting in the journal Pediatrics studied more than 10,000 kids when they were three, five and seven years…
Witchcraft, I tell you!
My daughter was much less impressed with this than I was. But she’s four, so what the hell does she know.
Which okay is okay?
OK? O.K.? Okay? I choose “okay” every time, because it’s the only logical and acceptable choice. It’s the only one that represents an actual word. As an abbreviation, O.K. is…
Hashtag excuse
A student interrupted me yesterday. When I told him to knock it off, he said that he wasn’t interrupting. “That was a hashtag, Mr. Dicks. Not an interruption.” Sometimes an…
Unacceptable platitude #5: “It’s not the worst thing.”
In the past two days, two people have used told me that “It’s not the worst thing” in an attempt to mitigate my level of annoyance. On Sunday, I was…
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