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The Time Is Always Right To Do What Is Right

January 16, 2012 – 12:01 am

Mamacita says: Why is this day a holiday in most communities? (This community doesn’t consider it a holiday, but that’s typical for this county.) (None of our schools closed. None of our schools has EVER closed for MLK Day.)(They don’t close for Veteran’s Day, either.) However, intelligent, sensitive, educated people understand that today deserves respect [...]

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Some End-of Semester Thoughts

May 13, 2011 – 8:59 pm

Mamacita says: I teach in a community college, and I have found that my hardest-working students are, for the most part, the older ones, the ones who have been out of school for many years, the ones who have been busy out in the workforce, or raising children. Now, for one reason or another, they’ve [...]

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There Are All Kinds of Enslavement

February 18, 2011 – 4:31 pm

Mamacita says: I posted this in 2006, but I’ve been thinking about this same thing all day so here it is again. My blog, my rules. Here’s the post: Is anyone else out there lucky enough to have a job that makes you so happy that all you have to do is walk into the [...]

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Euphemisms Cloud the Issues

August 11, 2010 – 1:55 pm

Mamacita says: Oh, is it time to be politically correct again? At school? Well, if we must. . . . Now don’t any of you be offended. I mean, “euphorically-challenged.” No one fails a class any more; he’s merely “passing impaired.” You don’t have detention; you’re just one of the “exit delayed.” Your classroom isn’t [...]

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Agog Amidst A Gig

August 11, 2010 – 12:58 am

Mamacita says: I love to attend conferences; I don’t know how people “keep up” with all the new “stuff” in any profession without going forth and finding out. Quite honestly, I believe that to fully appreciate the honing of one’s skills by attending conferences, we simply must attend more than one kind of conference. In [...]

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I Agree With Aristotle.

July 3, 2010 – 3:46 am

Mamacita says: There are many things that are wrong with and in this country – many, many things. Open a newspaper, watch television, listen to the radio, surf around the blogosphere, pretty much all we hear about are the things that are wrong. We SHOULD be hearing about them, too; if we don’t hear about [...]

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My Killer Instinct vs. My Safe & Even Useful Outlet

June 10, 2010 – 8:34 pm

Mamacita says: I own a pair of gardening gloves. Really, I do. I bought them after the ripping-poison-ivy-out-with-cloth-gloves-and-getting-resin-all-over-my-hands incident of a few weeks ago. They’re very pretty, and still in the package. The thing is, I don’t schedule my ventures into the savannah that is my yard. I start ripping into the weeds at random [...]

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A Good Principal’s Qualities

May 20, 2010 – 3:06 am

The Education Wonks did me the honor of posting my opinion of what makes a good principal on his blog several years ago, and speaking of the Wonks, I really hope he comes back soon. Most schools are in their last couple of weeks now, so I thought maybe it was time to post this [...]

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Outside of the Box is Better

March 28, 2010 – 5:31 pm

Mamacita says: Why stay in the box, all cramped and restricted and crowded with boring people, when it’s so much more fun to live OUTSIDE of the box? Nobody who chose to live inside the box has ever changed the universe in any noticeable way. Sing. Dance. Write poems and stories and plays and songs. [...]

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Why Do It Be: That So Many Adults Are Scum. . . .

March 22, 2010 – 11:10 pm

Mamacita says: Spring Break is over for me and just beginning for other people, so naturally I’m, to quote Jimmy Fallon, BOTHERED. Oh, not really. I love my job. All of them, in fact. In honor of my love for my jobs, I shall dedicate this post to things that BOTHERED me at my former [...]