Green Is Not a Good Look for Me
“Claire Lynch has a great song, “Jealousy, oh jealousy, what a devil you must be. With your chains around my heart…” I’m dying to sing it, I don’t actually want to experience it though but experience it is just what I what got to do. Recess is a nice part of the day for students and teachers. Melinda and I take our third graders outside after lunch and we joke that the world needs to give itself recess. The sun is shining and everywhere you look children are laughing and playing during a pause in the day. Most of the time one of us is grading papers or talking to kids. A couple of weeks ago she was grading papers, a math test her students had taken just before lunch. Did I say grading, chortle with glee is more like it. Her students had nailed a very difficult test and she was literally jumping up and down with joy. I was almost happy for her. I wanted to be happy fo...