I talked about bullying in the past but on seeing some recent news stories I thought I’d dive back in but in another part of that unfortunately large lake. I was bullied as a kid. Welcome to the world, right? Everyone is bullied during their life, whether by schoolmates, friends, lovers, family, or strangers. There… Continue reading Because Maybe We Don’t Care
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End of Days – blog
You hear it a lot but things were simpler when I was a kid. It’s not that there was no established internet, or streaming services, or faux-lebrities that found fame because of a stupid viral incident. No, it was that the world outside of the high school and towns I grew up in seemed so… Continue reading End of Days – blog
Save Our Schools
To say I have a love/hate relationship with my city of Flint is to put it mildly. I fiercely love this city and its people and its culture and its resilience. I loathe the bureaucracy that is so rampant here and the way that the leadership never seems able to coordinate or work together… Continue reading Save Our Schools
For Educational Purposes Only- blog
When I look back at my school days, I can’t say I look back at them fondly. I wasn’t great in Kindergarten, finding myself and what it was like to be in school and around so many kids. I had been in a sort of preschool, but it wasn’t like it is today and… Continue reading For Educational Purposes Only- blog
Fighting The Good Fight
There’s a familiar sentiment that comes up every so often that is just Gatekeeper Talk trying to dissuade you from doing this or that for reasons we are told are for our own good. I remember being in 8th grade and choosing what I wanted to do with my future as far as a… Continue reading Fighting The Good Fight
What Do You Know? – blog
Are you like me and really, really feel like parents that make a scene about what their kids are learning should have to pass some sort of competency test before the matter moves forward? Am I crazy? Naw. I doubt it. Now, I am sure that through the ages there have been parents who have… Continue reading What Do You Know? – blog
Where We Come From
All of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, come from somewhere. Some of us hold where we come from in high regards, spouting off to whomever will listen about our grand background and lineage. Others of us will act as if we sprung from the darkness fully formed, tied to nothing and owing nothing… Continue reading Where We Come From
School Grays
School Grays Fair warning, this is a very long bloggy post. After writing my last blog about Halloween I heard something that got me thinking, thinking about school and the way we treat school…and the way we treat our kids. You would think that in 2015 we would be at a place where education was… Continue reading School Grays
Asking Too Much
Two posts in one day? Outrageous. YET TRUE! So I got a funny letter in the mail the other day from my collegiate alma mater. Now, I have never been close with either my high school or the colleges I attended. I stayed away from the high school because I didn’t enjoy my time… Continue reading Asking Too Much
The Spooky World of Chris Ringler 