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Donate Now Are you familiar with the angry cartoon character, the one that reaches his boiling point and his face turns red and steam comes out of his ears? I was that cartoon character today, I’m sure there was steam involved too. I won’t go into details, but I raised my voice for the first…
read more »Donate Now I left the kids alone with a sub yesterday, for the first time, since I had to attend a mandatory TELPAS training (it’s an exam that measures ELL students’ english proficiency in reading/writing/listening/speaking), and when I returned today my usually wonderful kids were OUT OF CONTROL. It made me want to both never…
read more »Middle Schoolers: Invite you to their quinceaneras and into their communities, making you feel oh-so-special and giving you something really fun to do on a Saturday night. Steal pushpins off your wall to scratch their name into their hands. Ick. Tell you they want to throw parties on the electron cloud, with their negatively charged…
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