Teachers, Twitter, Trump, and the First Amedment
I never aspired to be the Enemy of the People. But here it is in 2021, and here I am, a part of...
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Category: Politics
The Block’s Epistle to the Evangelicals
My Friends, As we all see our country in peril this week, many of us have felt a deep sense...
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Stars and Bars and White Guilt
Q: What’s the difference between a Yankee and a Damn Yankee A: A Yankee comes from the North. A...
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Being White on a Sunday Afternoon
Sunday afternoon, and it’s a luxury to plop into the woods and disconnect from social media for a...
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Transcending Political Divides by Teaching Rhetoric: an MLK reflection.
MLK holiday usually comes at the turn of the semester, and I am often awash with the professional...
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Teaching Logic in a Post-Truth World
English teacher peeps, I may need your help on figuring this out. At the end of the calendar year...
Read MoreMarinating on a Mid-Week Teacher Rally in Raleigh
It’s been a week since over 20,000 professional educators flooded the streets of Raleigh to visit the NC legislature on its opening session, which lasted a whopping 15 minutes before shutting down for the day. Many of those...
Read MoreThoreau Dreams of Teacher Protests
I’ve sat in this mental place mulling the choice. It came across my Facebook feed in an almost clandestine way: NC teachers are planning a walk-out on May 16, the first day of the new legislative session. The day of my...
Read MoreSpiritual Teaching in a Sacred Secular Classroom
All this is true, more or less. Teachers are consigned to a certain type of purgatory. Not hell,...
Read MoreDown the Highways of the Old Confederacy
I am not from The South. I have lived here all of my adult life, but I have always had difficulty considering myself a Southerner. I was reminded of it early and often when I moved to North Carolina, no matter how...
Read MoreThis is what democracy looks like
The sky over Charlotte as I drove home Thursday evening was a molten pastiche of pinks, oranges,...
Read MoreInsert Your Outrage Here: Learning to Argue in a Digitally Fractured World
Despite my verbal diahrrea of “analysis” as I tortured myself watching the RNC Monday night, I’ve actually tried to keep this blog apolitical. All my homies IRL know that I watch politics like a junky with a...
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