Aug
17
An Update
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It becomes, upon even the briefest glances, that I have not updated my blog in some time and I have resolved to do that more frequently.
This summer, I was asked to teach 7th and 8th grade at St. Joseph Catholic School in Pilot Grove, MO. I have a combined, self-contained room. Yes, that means I [...]
Jan
28
A Pleasant Surprise
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I was at Mass at the Newman Center last night and was both surprised and pleased by something that happened.
Two students have been coming to Mass for some time. The both use wheelchairs to get around. I don’t know if their disabilities are acquired or if they have had them since birth; that is just [...]
Jan
28
Spanking and Classical Conditioning
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I was talking to a group of teachers today about spanking. I don’t know how we got on the topic but I was telling them about my cousin who is a vice principal in the St. Louis area and her school district allows them to spank children.
In any case, one teacher said very matter of [...]
Aug
5
A long time coming.
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It has been for some time that I have wanted to start a blog. I did briefly last fall but quickly stopped posting to it after only a few weeks. Keeping up with it was made difficult by the fact that I was using iWeb to maintain it, making posting rather difficult as I [...]