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The next of my to-be-abandoned blogs
When you move to San Antonio, you may notice stray animals. Often. They might even wander into your school on occasion (usually in the mornings, in my experience). Our city does not do a great job of caring for animals considering we still kill healthy stray animals due to lack of caregivers and shelter space.…
read more »My posting has been on hiatus due to the passing of my grandmother last week. It was not unexpected though no less sad. She was born in Galveston but moved to San Antonio at age 3 when her father got a job working at the San Antonio Light printing press. She graduated from Brackenridge High…
read more »(Source: If you pay peanuts, do you get monkeys? Paying teachers 10 per cent more results in 5-10 per cent higher pupil performance.) There’s a very famous slam poetry video clip starring Taylor Mali discussing the issue of what teachers make, and the gist of it is that teachers make a difference. Well, yes! I…
read more »The Non-Definitive Veggie Guide to San Antonio
read more »A very practical question one might have when moving to San Antonio is “Will I need a car?” I will say — with some equivocation — almost certainly, yes. I say this as someone who hates driving, cars, and all the million problems exacerbated by them. But because of the way our city is designed,…
read more »New San Antonio corps members, you might be asking yourself, “Where am I about to start teaching?” Pfft, only one of the most important cities in the history of Texas education, that’s where. Our Census numbers can be deceiving. Though we do rank 7th in the US in population, we are a mid-sized metro area…
read more »For the incoming San Antonio CM who wants to know more about the Alamo City, I hope this series of posts is illuminating. I’d like to start by offering a warm welcome as San Antonians are unfailingly polite, for the most part. This first post will explain some of the urban geography from a lay…
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