Dirty Boots: An Even Dozen (Years in the Classroom)

Dirty Boots: Irregular Attempts at Critical Thinking and Border Crossing offers a Deep Southern, Generation X perspective on the culture, politics, and general milieu of the 21st century. Every once in a while, a student who thinks she wants to be a teacher will ask me, “When did you know you wanted to be a teacher,” and I answer her by saying, “I never did want to be a teacher.” That’s the truth, I didn’t. When I was studying English in college, people would say to me, “What are you gonna do, teach?” and… Read more Dirty Boots: An Even Dozen (Years in the Classroom) →