The Backpack Drop Zone: One Sixth-Grade Truth That Exposed Our Quiet Crisis

the curriculum,” she said.

And there it was.

The great American compromise:

We will teach them dates and facts and vocabulary words.

We will not teach them how to survive being human.

I nodded because I have bills, too. Because I am retiring soon. Because I have learned that sometimes you pick your battles and sometimes the battle picks you.

When I turned continue reading …