For lunch today, I’m going to do my usual half sandwich with cheese, turkey, and avocado. I might get some chips from the vending machine because sometimes you just need something crunchy to go with your sandwich. It all depends on whether I can scrounge enough change from the bottom of my purse (or mooch…
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Thanks at Thanksgiving
From myself and the rest of the editors and employees here at The Mailbox, thanks for… –Cleaning up some sick kid’s vomit when you came to school sick yourself –Staying at school until 9:30 PM for that last parent-teacher conference –Getting to school before 6:00 AM to prepare for a day of overseeing bubble-filling –Being…
Homeless Students
Recently, I was thinking about how I failed my students. Not because they couldn’t answer 15 out of 20 questions on a test, but because I might have let them down when they needed my understanding and compassion the most. During lunchtime yesterday, I thought about the great number of students who showed up to…
Let’s Talk About Lunch
Lunch in the teachers’ dining room at my school was an unpredictable affair. I never knew whether I’d find my fellow teachers talking excitedly about everything or sitting silently in the doldrums of discontent. Of course, there was the food. Nothing much had changed since we were the ones sitting in the cafeteria with our…