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Dear 8th Graders, This Should Have Been Your Year Too

To my dear 8th graders: If someone had warned me that our school year would take such an uncharted and radical turn, I would never have believed it.…

They’ll never say, “I’m glad my last orchestra concert was a Zoom meeting instead.” They’ll never say, “A car…

Charles Dickens’ words certainly resonated with me this year during last year’s surge of graduations. My oldest son graduated with a BFA…

I had a wretched evening. My middle school son and I battled over his schoolwork and I felt completely discouraged. The next morning, I went to a…

God looked down from heaven and wanted to give a gift to the world. He wanted to give the world someone poised at the end of one journey and the…

Dear big kids, I love having you home. But I wish you didn’t have to be here. I wish you could be where you thought you’d be or where you want to…

Dear high school seniors, On Friday afternoon, a few seniors came into my classroom after the last bell rang. They were concerned about prom and…

Dear Class of 2020: It’s not supposed to be this way. As you head into spring of your senior year, you’re supposed to be preparing for…

Dear fifth-grader, I’m just so sorry. I know you were excited for that end-of-the-year party with your friends. I know you’ve been waiting to…

“College isn’t for everyone.” I heard that phrase kicked around quite a bit in the mid-90s when I was finishing up high school, but…