Shasta County School Children Need Your Help Our children are grown, as are our six grandchildren. Three of them attended Shasta County Schools, with the youngest graduating from Shasta High a little over eight years ago. To my knowledge, they were not exposed to the craziness you see these days, with school personnel pushing critical […]
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An Enduring Classroom Assignment One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down.
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The Middle Wife By an Anonymous 2nd grade teacher I’ve been teaching now for about fifteen years. I have two kids myself, but the best birth story I know is the one I saw in my second-grade classroom a few years back. When I was a kid, I loved show-and-tell. So, I always have a
The Innocent Honesty Of A Child While I sat in the reception area of my doctor’s office, a woman rolled an elderly man in a wheelchair into the room. As she went to the receptionist’s desk, the man sat there, alone and silent. Just as I was thinking I should make small talk with him,
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A Smart Kid A young boy enters a barber shop and the barber whispers to his customer: – “This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch while I prove it to you.” The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters in the other, then calls the boy over and asks: