Kathryn Mayer • Writing Out Loud
I write stuff down. writer • humorist • activist
Just a quick update on my email to seven Board of Education members, Superintendent, and Asst Superintendent in my home school district (in which rather attractive husband and I have 4 children), conveying concern of excessive security presence and disciplinary actions against all students regardless of crime, creating a learning environment based on fear. If you missed my rant, you can catch up quick here. Go forth; read; and get
This is not going to be funny, because I’m pissed. School restraints on children’s behavior are insane and I have a better idea: If you don’t like kids, don’t work in the schools. School budgets and zero tolerance and No Child Left Behind is an overwhelming obligation of a school district, but somewhere along the way, we forgot about the kids and families these rules effect. There is nothing black
Starting the day with a PPT for Kid2, the brilliant analytical problem solver who can’t read all that well. Go figure, we’ve been saying this since second frickin’ grade. I am so tired of this. Tired of playing nice and kissing appropriate ass in hopes that somebody will step up and do the right thing. PPT stands for Planning and Placement Team: the puppeteers that decide, together with the student
Four kids, three schools (one’s in college so that ship has sailed). We’re down to three open houses this year: elementary, middle and high school. Two down, one to go. I’m trying to become that coveted trust agent in my immediate network of friends and neighbors, ie the other parents at my kids’ schools. I swear I’m trying, but it’s really, really hard. I’m trying to befriend everyone as I
An irreverent storyteller with a foul mouth and big heart, Kathryn Mayer (aka Kathy and/or Kate) is a writer, humorist, and (former) activist writing out loud with humor and grace about little life moments with big ripples, including the space between parenting and aging parents, social issues, angsty reflections of midlife, and, sigh, gun humpers. Still. Sometimes a big deal, sometimes not Mayer is a national award-winning columnist, according to the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and her essays have been recognized as Voice of … Read More Here...
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xo Kate