If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be In Your Revolution

In a perversely satisfying bit of irony, I was slapped with a civic fine on the day that I had decided to go and do a bit of research on anarchy. I was actually on my way to the big downtown library to find books on this man’s reading list, and I had only stopped [...]

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There’s Nothing Simple About it

Jay (age 7):  Mom, do you believe that the Canadian warriors in Afghanistand (sic) are important? Me: AfghanisTAN. Jay: Yah, that’s what I said, Afghanistand. Well do you? Me: Well, that’s a tricky question. It’s complicated. What do you think? Jay: Yes. They’re important because they’re making peace. That’s what my teacher said. Me: If [...]

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The Reality of The Classroom

Teachers have impossible jobs. My daughter is in a multi-age grades 1-2-3 classroom, with 20 or so other children. One of them has Down’s syndrome, another has a severe learning disability, and the entire clump of kids in grade one are very not-school-ready little boys who clearly would be much happier running around than sitting [...]

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School So Far

How are things going?   Pretty okay, I’d have to say. I had some trepidation going into this homeschool year, with young Tee back from his brief foray into public school. I wasn’t quite sure whether he and I could make it work, to be honest. He’s a difficult kid to “teach”. He doesn’t take [...]

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