David HausknechtWe see it in the movies. We hear it in our music. And we hear it on the lips of our middle schoolers, those three big words: “I love you.” With as much ease as eating their sandwich for lunch, our students quickly and passively talk about the love they feel. They love their best [...]
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Hey everyone! I just wanted to let you know that I’ll be blogging again more frequently. I couldn’t keep up the frequency at which I was blogging last year and needed to take a break. But I absolutely love this age group and have been collecting thoughts to write about this year. If there’s a [...]
I played a lot of baseball as a kid. Inevitably from time to time someone would hit the ball over a fence into a neighbor’s yard, and I would always volunteer to go get it. Why? For some reason, I loved climbing fences. I felt it was a worthy challenge for a kid like me, [...]
I get this question all the time: “Why middle school?” Usually the person has some kind of smirk to indicate that underneath they’re really thinking, “Why in the world would someone like you willingly engage the craziest, most unpredictable, and often worst-smelling age group out of all the other congenial, predictable, and un-problematic age groups?” And honestly, I don’t [...]
