A Catholic Kid’s Semi-Rotten Childhood II
People who should know better refer to my generation as “Aging Baby Boomers.” Those who apply the term “aging” to us deserve to be strangled with a string of love beads with reefers stuck up […]
Tag: school
Older Brothers Behaving Badly
I was asked recently, “What story had the biggest impact on me when I was a child.” My response was: My older brothers made me read a story when I was in second or third grade, […]
Story Problems
Sharpen your pencils, get out your slide rule, and see how you fare with these story problems. Three pigs had 5$ each. Five pigs had 3$ each. Where did they get all that money? I […]
The New School Daze
My neighbor’s kids are the poster children for Apple with all their gadgets in preparation to head back to school to conquer the third and fifth grade. I was stunned and a bit jealous. I’m […]
Catholic School Memories: Christmas Pageants and Other Disasters
My onstage debut was unforgettable. I was Innkeeper No. Two in St. Joseph’s Elementary School’s Annual Christmas Pageant. That was the year that we First Graders were reenacting the Nativity as our part of the […]
Sarah Palin: American Schools Have Been Infiltrated by Al Gebra
Former Alaska governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin wrote an editorial in the Wasilla Times to “alert the country” to “the disturbing fact” that “Al Gebra” has infiltrated American schools. An exerpt: “You may […]
Another Important Use of the Spell Checker
Just as I suppose my parents lamented the arrival of the digital watch, which softened my generation’s ability to read an analog watch or a sundial, and their parents lamented the arrival of the calculator […]
School’s Out for Summer…
This week on ADHDivas….. School has wrapped up for the year, and well… there’s always next year! Were there A’s in May? Did Lisa’s son graduate? Will those missing assignments ever turn up? Lisa […]
The Loch Ness Monster Finds God
Private school students in Louisiana, many of whom receive tax vouchers for attending these schools, are learning a different anthropology lesson than other students around the country. The private school students are not only learning […]
The Teenage Boy’s Dream Date?
It’s Prom season–the season of young love and romance and the season when teenage boys and girls go on the hunt for their dream date who will put that special punctuation on their high school […]