They are amendments, not commandments!

My devotion to posting has already seemed to subside, but I will persevere thorough this lack of motivation. I taught the Bills of Rights today. We went through the amendments one by one and deciphered and discussed each one. It’s always so interesting to see the kids who normally don’t give a damn get increasingly interested as they realize how their rights have been violated. I actually get to say “see, this is why you learn social studies.”

So I agreed to go see Freedom Writers with the Spanish teacher at my school tomorrow afternoon. I’m not sure how I’m going to react, but considering it is free with a teacher ID the only thing I am going to lose is time. Expect a very long entry in circa 26 hours.

Not much else to report. Hopkins started yet again; don’t hold your breath but I am in a class that seems genuinely worthwhile. As far as I can tell it explores (without answering) the issue of urban school reform. She presented one question to us that I will leave all you future policymakers with – do you feel effective school reforms comes from a service-delivery or holistic approach (a package and deliver, bring a functional school into a dysfunctional system and make it work in isolation approach or you must actively change the entire community to be effective, respectively)? Discuss.