NEW KIDS ON THE BLoG

NEA Today, Oct 2005 by Flannery, Mary Ellen

Many teacher Web logs are more overt about their advocacy-they serve to point a wagging finger at the No Child Left Behind law, shout about vouchers, and encourage debate on all sorts of issues. (Check out http://folkbum.blogspot.com/, www.shutupandteach.org, and www .assortedstuff.com/.)

But almost all are just plain entertaining, as your colleagues go whole blog.

EXCERPT FROM HIP TEACHER AN NEA MEMBER IN GEORGIA, WHO BLOGS AT http://hipteacher.typepad.com/

Teachers all over the school quietly about their business, suddenly perk up, drop everything and start running to the same location. Nearby students look up in wonder. What's going on? When I was a student teacher, I looked up in wonder. What's going on? But today, in the hallway going to duty, I received another reminder that I really am a teacher now.

I felt the fight before I even saw it.

And I ran. I don't know what I thought I was gonna do when I arrived, but, by golly, I ran. I ran with the teachers.