The vice-principal of Jefferson Middle School, gives me a brief orientation before my first day substitute teaching 7th Grade Algebra. Also, a mnemonic for the members of O.J. Simpson’s criminal defense team (Robert Kardashian, Alan Dershowitz, Johnnie Cochran, Gerald Uelmen, F. Lee Bailey, Carl E. Douglas, Robert Shapiro).
June 9, 2014
“Remedial kids aren’t ‘dumb’—just chronically goofy. Until frontal lobotomies become commonplace, educators dutifully remain S.O.L.”
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