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Farewell to Teaching

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I hope that you will keep the door open to teaching. We need teachers that care about what they’re teaching their students and aren’t just there for the paycheck.
I was dismayed when I started my college career at 34–the classes were mostly lectures with very little debate or exchange of ideas and viewpoints. Those open discussions expand an education beyond the confines of a textbook. In the few classes I had where debates were allowed, i found it thought-provoking for both sides.

Carol A. Hand's avatarVoices from the Margins

Carol A. Hand

This post is a farewell to a vocation I have loved – teaching. I awoke this morning with a clear answer to a question I have been pondering for several weeks, “Should I resign from teaching, perhaps this time with no intention of ever returning?”

Yes, it’s time. Although I love working with students, the context of teaching at the post high school level has increasingly provided too little space for liberatory praxis.

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Photo Credit: Graduate Celebration – 2009

It’s the structure of education, not the students, that has been the determining factor for my decision. During my brief time as an adjunct for a private college, I have witnessed the transformation of a program originally based on emphasizing critical thinking and experiential learning based on social justice to a “feeder” program preparing students for a clinical master’s degree. The transition didn’t occur over night, but…

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Not everyone is outraged by San Francisco’s most obnoxious billboard (Spoiler: Libertarians)

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…”Especially if you’re a well-paid white dude who doesn’t have to live in San Francisco, let alone work a minimum wage job (which seems to be the common theme amongst those loudly cheering the billboard for reflecting “reality.”)”

WORD. It’s always amazing to me that those who are making good money look down their noses at others who want the same. Hell, not even the same–but enough to feed their families, pay the rent, and take care of the average stuff in order to live.

Six Nations protesters stop Enbridge Line 9 dig in North Dumfries

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Well, some good news for a change…

Zig Zag's avatarWarrior Publications

Enbridge Line 6 6 NationsCBC News,  July 17, 2014

Protesters from Six Nations stopped work at a dig on a portion of the Line 9 pipeline in North Dumfries Thursday morning.

According to a statement from protesters, a group marched onto a work site east of Highway 24 near the Grand River between Cambridge and Brantford around 10 a.m. Thursday. They say Enbridge’s employees are working without consent or consultation on land that is on Haudenosaunee territory.

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Dear Congressman and Senators…

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I also object to my tax dollars supporting the Israeli military, allowing them to kill innocent people.

Unknown's avatarVoices from the Margins

Although I feel totally powerless to end the Palestinian invasion, what I could do today was share my views with my legislators. I hope they will listen…

Senator Amy Klobuchar
302 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
phone: 202-224-3244
fax: 202-228-2186

Senator Al Franken
309 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-5641 309 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-5641

Congressman Rick Nolan
2447 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
D.C. Office: (202) 225-6211
Fax: (202) 225-0699

Dear Senator Franken, Senator Klobuchar, and Congressman Nolan,

I am writing with a heavy heart because of the brutal oppression and slaughter of innocent Palestinian people by the Israeli government. I urge you to use your position as an elected official to do everything in your power to end this situation now. It is deeply distressing to realize that my tax dollars support the Israeli military to…

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