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This will also be the inevitable result of teachers using AI of their own accord, thinking it's a clever life hack

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Quick, someone start writing a musical called The Duelling Iagos

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So many smart, qualified, experienced, principled people out there, and yet so often we hand over the keys of power to grifty losers It's the biggest disappointment of them all

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Quick, someone start writing a musical called The Duelling Iagos

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HONK HONK 🏒

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So many smart, qualified, experienced, principled people out there, and yet so often we hand over the keys of power to grifty losers It's the biggest disappointment of them all

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The phrase is supposed to be "you break it, you buy it" -- but I guess 2025 is such an upside-down time in American politics that it's operating in reverse today

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And the CFL season has arrived -- another sign that the school year is almost done Canadian football is the best kind of football, followed by Australian football. Sorry America, just speaking the truth

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Untitled (Saskatchewan Roughriders) David Craig n.d.

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HONK HONK 🏒

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English teacher life: have basked in the glow of this accomplishment all day

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English teacher life: up just before sunset, finishing off a set of essays

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We have, teachers in June, we have indeed

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Monday night marking soundtrack: the Great Kate. Will never forget how evocative this track and this whole album felt in my teenage years, how mysterious and mystical, like nothing I'd ever heard before.

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Wake up, go to school, teach your heart out.

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It's a great day at school when you can serve your colleagues in several small ways. The little pieces you stitch together to make a satisfying career, a good life --

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And here's me feeling bad when the kids get their essays a day later than I promised

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So I have a hyper-optimistic teacher brain that creates a marking and schoolwork schedule, and a lizard teacher brain working on what the schedule will actually be in the deep subconscious background And when the hyper-optimistic brain is flailing, the lizard brain kicks in with the survival plan

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Sunday night marking playlist: It's 1985, it's Canada, and you're listening to this because it's the height of cool Fast forward to 2025, and as you start to read an essay on A Doll's House, it's a fitting soundtrack

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June's arrival means there are nine teaching days in the next three months. Time to finish off and then reflect, rest, reconnect. The satisfaction of completing another year and the chance to step fully outside of it all are great gifts of this profession that I treasure and don't take for granted.

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Or clones and body doubles of Lear

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Capulet: "Look you, she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly, / And so did I. Well, we were born to die." Romeo and Juliet, 3.4.3-4; or, a nation's new health policy

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Teacher life: when the Stanley Cup and NBA Finals are locked in, it means that the end of the school year is nigh 🏒🏀

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Don't have any streaming services. Don't feel like I'm missing anything.

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Life in 2025: Saturday morning coffee brings thoughts like "what are things going to look like after ten years of wildfiles"

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Want to build and live in a world where it's easier to experience what Wordsworth calls "the joy / Of elevated thoughts"

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English teacher life: the hometown team gets into the Stanley Cup Final, and among your first thoughts are "Is there a game the night of grad? Is there a game the night before the English Diploma Exam?" The answer is no on both counts. Thank you, NHL

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