Last year, I committed the very great heresy of telling my father that I would discourage any of my children from attending American colleges or universities. (This from the woman with a bachelor’s and three master’s degrees from American institutions.) My reason at the time was the overtly hostile attitude toward Israel on many American [...]
Posts Tagged ‘teaching’
Lies my teacher told me
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged education, history, politics, society, teaching on April 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sex, love, and advertising
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged education, health, teaching on November 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
One of the most useful things I learned from attending public high school was sex ed. It was taught to girls and boys separately (my first experience of single-sex education), discussed in an honest, factual, unabashed manner, and gave me all the information I needed about biology, pregnancy prevention, and sexually transmitted diseases, to make [...]
Back to work
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children, parenting, teaching on September 19, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Nine years ago I made the complicated, difficult decision to leave my cushy teaching job in order to stay home with my newborn (first) child. There were so many factors that figured into that decision: economics (it was cheaper than working and having all my salary—and then some—go to childcare), my desire to be with [...]
