I was by myself in the commons the other day when a fourth grade boy came through a set of double doors. Out of nowhere he says, “Mr. Stagg! You should come to my birthday party.”
“I can’t go to your birthday party.”
“Why not?”
“Well, where is it?”
“Hooters.”
“I’ll be there.”
This kid knows what’s up.
At my school I teach a theatre appreciation class. I began this class by teaching about Greek tragedy. Within this unit I was telling the story of Aeschylus’s trilogy The Oresteia. The Greek god Apollo is talked about in this piece of work. In my style of teaching, I’ll stop my lecture and answer a [...]
Today I was discussing my refereeing situation over Yahoo Messenger—my not having a phone situation made talking over IM necessary—with my boss. Now, this boss is not the boss of my school. This boss is Justin from my brother’s work. He’s the one who schedules my games for the Rice intramural sports program. (I’m a [...]
I feel like introductions are trite. I’m just going to go right ahead and let you know some things that happened to me at school.
A kindergartener peed his pants today and was standing in the office looking really angry. I secretly hoped someone peed on him, but alas he did it himself. When he was [...]