Teacher Tales: You will not believe what you read.

My blog is dedicated to the telling of hilarious and downright scary tales from the public school domain. Just to make things a little more fun, I am a Special Education Teacher that attempts to educate students who have emotional disabilities. Wait, thats not all. I teach in a title one (poor) school in the deep south. The things in which I will relate may shock you, especialy if you are a parent who is making a valiant effort to raise school-aged children.

Monday, January 18, 2010

Martin Luther King Jr.

It's nice to be off on this beautiful day in the South. The schools down here actually close for this occasion, unlike most other places of business. Among whites in the South, Martin Luther King Jr. is not really their kinda guy, even though he was from Atlanta. Luther was a man who incited change and concentrated his efforts on making things better for African Americans. Southern whites are as resistant to adhering to change as organic grocery stores are of selling corn dogs.
Red necks could care less about Martin Luther King Jr. They are too busy washing off the deer blood from the hood of their Ford truck - you know the truck with the Confederate Flag tied to a windshield wiper with chicken wire. I guess we have to give them a break, they were probably too drunk to tie the dearly departed deer to the hood properly.