Your Mama's Mad Tedious: Diary of a Bronx Teacher There are some things most of us will never know. Like what happens when you jokingly say "shake out your brain" in front of an autistic child. Or the way a classroom of inner-city kids will surprise you when you go a little loca en la cabeza over a missing miniature stapler. Or how things play out when a young boy officially classified as "emotionally disturbed" and a dean unofficially classified as "incompetent" converge on your math lesson at the exact moment that it's going well. But Miss Dennis knows, and she's willing to share. In the first entry of this "diary of a Bronx teacher," Miss Dennis details how "your mama's mad tedious" sprang from a word-a-day lesson. In her most recent post, she talks movingly about working with "Aspergery" children. In between, she gets exhausted and mad, but she keeps going. And we hope she always will. (in Education)
