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Bring Back the All-School Sing

February 4, 2012 – 12:12 am

Mamacita says: Back in the day (when dinosaurs roamed the earth) every American student knew hundreds of songs, all the same songs, for the most part. Every Wednesday morning, kids all over the town would gather in their school’s auditorium, or cafeteria, and sing. In my little grade school, it was called the All-School Sing. [...]

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Where Were You When The Planes Hit?

September 9, 2011 – 12:05 am

My tribute to Craig Damian Lilore can be found here. Mamacita says: I’m guessing that many most bloggers will be posting tributes this weekend, and telling the blogosphere ‘where we were’ when the planes hit the World Trade Center. Here is mine. This is actually the second third fourth fifth sixth seventh time I’ve posted [...]

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April is Poetry Month: Elizabeth Bishop

April 10, 2011 – 12:05 am

Elizabeth Bishop Sonnet I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow. Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low, Of some song sung to rest the tired dead, A song to fall like water on my head, And [...]

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Standardization, Administration, & Other Bollocky Things

April 9, 2011 – 3:01 pm

Mamacita says: Beethoven and Rodin would never make it in an American public school these days. Neither would Lincoln, or Clara Barton, or Thomas Jefferson. Nor Einstein. Or Edison. Administrators have forgotten that ultimately, our culture will be judged on the arts; that’s how we learn about ancient cultures. We did not find any remnants [...]

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April Is Poetry Month: Edwin Arlington Robinson

April 8, 2011 – 12:04 am

Edwin Arlington Robinson Richard Cory Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him; He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said, “Good [...]

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This Teacher Loves GLEE, and Here’s Why

December 7, 2010 – 1:05 pm

Mamacita says: Glee makes me want to sing. Glee even has the power to make me think I CAN sing. But that’s beside the point. When I watch Glee, I switch back and forth with my point of view. Sometimes, I’m one of the students, and then I absorb the wonder of having a safe [...]

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Halloween is Rocky Horror Time!

October 31, 2010 – 11:32 am

Mamacita says: “Great Scott!” Halloween has been and gone but it’s still THAT SEASON, which means many things, one of which is that I have a giant bowl half-filled with Tootsie Roll Pops and Hershey bars on my coffee table, and another of which is that I am once again compelled to obsess over my [...]

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Too Bad, So Sad. . . .

July 21, 2010 – 12:00 am

Mamacita says: So many people have emailed me (doesn’t anybody comment any more?) about the following lines from a previous post that I decided to feature them by themselves. Yes, my readers are the boss of me. There is such potential in every classroom, such stories to be told, such wondrous talent and creativity and [...]

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You Want A Creation Theory? I’ll Give You A Creation Theory!

July 19, 2010 – 12:05 am

On my Flickr page, there is a picture of a dulcimer. Mamacita says: Back in the day, all middle school/junior high students had to take shop and home ec. They entered high school, and life, knowing how to use a hammer and nails, how to put together a simple meal, how to sew a straight [...]

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Quotation Saturday: Rain

May 22, 2010 – 1:29 am

We’ve had nothing but torrential rain for over two weeks. Our grass is so high it can’t be mown with a regular mower; we’ll have to use the tractor and the bush hog. I’ve seen other people who’ve tried to keep their grass mown, but their yards look like a weird combination of nice short [...]