About this newsletter
I started this newsletter because I thought much of education writing was not that great. Either pretty boring, or insufferably preachy, or downright irrelevant to what actually happens in a school building day after day.
I don’t think it has to be! The public school, after all, is the most interesting place in America. It is the crucible of American society. By which I mean it is the one place in America (maybe the only place) where all of the big conversations we with ourselves as Americans, about ourselves as Americans, converge. Or clash. Or combust. Or harmonize. Or sometimes all those at once. (Kind of depends on the period.)
If nothing else, the fact that there is no other single place where more Americans spend more time together for such a long period of time means that even the most mundane of what happens in school matters, to all of us, and should be made interesting, to all of us.
So, while much of what I write might seem inside baseball-y1, I do hope to do it in such a way — free of jargon, without sanctimony, and, most importantly, with a sense of humor and hope — that it is engaging, clear and relevant to almost anyone who cares about these United States of America.
Send all feedback and corrections to oncafeteriaduty@gmail.com2. I’ll probably get a few things wrong, and I hope you call me out on it.
About Me
I’m an educator in NYC.
I’ll probably write about, like, how great quizzes are at some point.
Can’t believe someone already has cafeteriaduty@gmail.com
