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Various ventures into Mr. Scott’s mind.

Warszawa Centralna

Looking at some old pictures, I found a shot of Warszawa Centralna train station from about 2002. It was an exterior night shot, and there was little indication of what the station looked like inside. What it looks like now is vaguely similar, but there have been so...

Happy Thanksgiving 2023

adsf The header image is an AI creation using the prompt "a turkey on a table looking at people about to eat it for Thanksgiving."

Counselors Behind the Line

Our school counselors served Thanksgiving lunch today. They look snazzy in their hairnets, don't they?

Today’s Prompt

You answer a knock at the door and find a delivery guy holding a package for you. You open it up to find ... what? Describe the best package you can imagine receiving. What could i possibly want...

Why I?

Why I?

A student in class today asked why we capitalize the first person singular subjective-case personal pronoun, I, but none of the other personal pronouns. "Why don't we capitalize 'he' or 'she'?" the...

Four in the Morning

She gets up every morning at four, feeds the chickens, milks the cows, makes breakfast for her husband and four boys, then gets on a rusty bus to ride to where the tourists are. It's the same...

First Night

The beginning of the school year is a nervous time for all involved. Parents and students are worried about having a successful year. Even the most experienced teachers get a little nervous.  The...

Scavengers

Teachers are scavengers. We roam the halls, looking for others' cast away items. We rummage through boxes left by departing teachers to find useful items: hanging file folders, binders, dry-erase...

Summer Break

Summer Break

This site is now on summer break, as you should be as well. Enjoy the break. See you in August.

Snow Day!

Snow Day!

When it looked like this, it was obvious. Morning showed a cathedral of snow. All are excited, I'm sure. But we do have to make it up, so I'm not sure what the fuss is about...