Presumptions of the Average Me

Scrolling through Facebook these days is like reading through a People's Magazine -- it's full of engagement posts, marriage posts...

Today I brought a girl from another residence over to your old residence because she was put on Intensive Supervision (IS) after returning...

I can't tell you how happy I am that you finally have a place to call home and kind people to call family. With everything you've be...

From the day you returned from the inpatient hospital, you were perfect. You had your moments, but so does everyone -- making "perfec...

A lot of people ask me why I work overtime or why I like working at a psychiatric residential. Sometimes I want to ask why it matters to the...

I remember working an overtime shift as an overnight staff and you ran out of area. I knew why and did not feel mad about it, but I do re...

To be honest, I was a little nervous to work with you because I was warned about the types of kids I would have to work with. I was war...

I thought about what to do for your goodbye gift for a really long time. I know it's not much, but it's something that I hope will h...

When I found out one of the girls at the psychiatric residential facility where I work was getting discharged, I felt a tug at my heart. Thi...

A Word Cloud of the Infamous Thesis

Last blog post for Education Policy and Politics? That's a lot of pressure to really make this one count. After reading the post by D...

While doing work in the library this morning, I saw an overturned chair near a table of books and papers with the culprit no where to be s...

            The covers of People Magazine, Vogue, and Seventeen are splashed with photos of thin celebrities and models staring emptily at ...

Oh wait. That's almost always. So on one of the days I was doing research for my thesis (not sure which day, they all blend togethe...

I don't know how it all started, but one of my friends that I work with started the phrase "you don't know me!! You don't...

There is a particular stigma with public schools . . . such a stigma, that even one of my roommates brought up the topic when discussing c...

In light of both Dr. Powell's latest blog post (http://edjunto.wordpress.com/2014/03/23/sleeping-in/) and finals week creating a dark...

You know what really gets under my skin? People who make absolutely no sense. You know who makes absolutely no sense? People who are al...

One thing I have always found interesting is the debate between achievement and aptitude and the subcategory of the standard curriculum. W...

No more Scantrons!!!!!!.... I thought after elementary school. No more Scantrons!..... I hoped after finishing middle school.  No more...

     I will try to make this short and sweet (we'll see how well I fare...), but I wanted to address an issue relative to school operati...