Erin Miller

Despite having a couple of friends who are teachers, I sometimes forget just how much gratitude they deserve. But then I will catch some vignette from their work that will remind me just what amazing things many of them are doing. Last night at a dinner party, a teacher for emotionally disturbed kids said that her favorite student, who is on an hourly point reward system, got a really high score, a 97. He came up to her and said, “l got a 97 today and I didn’t even try to stab nobody!” She said, “that’s right, you did a really good job today.” Even as she recounted the story you could see the pride written across her face.

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Surely the blogosphere has some sort of term for people who routinely rely on linking to the blogs of others on their own entries. But I have recently been struggling with writers block, and I doubt that I could explain this year’s thanksgiving any better than Dan. Link to Dan’s Thanksgiving 08 blog post. It was great to spend a week surrounded by the luxuries of the suburbs, like carpeting, washing machines, and the ability to put a gallon of milk and a six pack of beer in your car instead of having to carry them for a half mile in your hands, the plastic bags cutting into your palms and the tips of your fingers beginning to tingle. Mostly though, it was great to be surrounded by people I love.

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