Journalistic Quest

Part VI: In which our heroine begins teaching in Federal Way, WA.

Friday, December 22, 2006

I neglected to mention that I will be in my homeland from December 17-27. I will resume my reviews when I return, but until then, check these books out:

2006 Global Reading Challenge

Many of these books were also used in the Kent and Federal Way, WA Battle of the Books last spring.

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2 Comments:

  • At 10:46 AM, Blogger Ludwig Richter said…

    Shannon--

    Did you see the story in the Seattle P-I on "An Inconvenient Truth" and Federal Way schools?

     
  • At 8:05 AM, Blogger Ludwig Richter said…

    Shannon,

    I have sometimes thought it would be interesting to work in a district like Stanwood or Yakima where the students, parents and administrators would often have values different than mine. Yes, there's a risk in that, but there's also a challenge.

    I'm not saying I would do this myself--at least not now. A math-teacher buddy of mine worked in Federal Way, but switched to Franklin HS because he said that in Federal Way they were trying to mold their "minority" students into models of 1950s white kids.

     

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