Talking Out of School - Softcover

Pilewski-carr, Lexsana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870128957 ISBN 13: 9780870128950

Publisher: McClain Printing Co, 2019

Synopsis

Occasionally my husband and I act like we're important people (Republicans), like people in smoking jackets and rich brocade lady jackets (stained jeans and West Virginia Cutie T-shirts). We sip our finest tea (ice-cold Coke Zero in measuring cups when dishes are washing) and dive into (we don't swim) the minefield of education (Boom!) We recall rousing key events (hell-on-earth whole chapters) of productive moments (all students awake) in our own teaching careers. During one busy morning (of drooling nothingness), I decided to publish my essoir (essay parts morphed into a memoir). Husband's interest piqued (feigned). So, should I finish that book I started ten years ago A memoir, maybe (begging the question), I asked him one evening as we ate smoked salmon at table (popcorn in our lounge chairs). A memoir Of what, teaching Do teachers do that I don't think I ever read a memoir by a teacher, he reflected, deeply (never taking his transfixed eyes off a NASCAR race). That was my epiphany about the profession both of us had just polished off like donuts (teachers holy wafers). The inference from his teacher-author memoir question was that the reading public (some actually can read, and still read actual books), would resist parting with $17.95 to buy anything written by a teacher (profession with apparent zero side talent, but still manages to teach all the earth s other professions). The second inference was that teachers supposed lackluster lives lack a life, because they are machines who never, ever veer from a forty-year daily grind. To paraphrase Lin Manuel Miranda (who knows about love of any kind and that mildly successful musical surrounding a ten-dollar bill on Broadway): Teaching is teaching is teaching is teaching.... We ruminated in the Hamptons one patriotic weekend (up on our hilltop mini patio, twirling sparklers), and let the juices flow (grilling hamburgers on a $19.99 WalMart lopsided charcoal grill)

About this edition

• Publisher: McClain Printing Co
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0870128957
• ISBN 13: 9780870128950
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328