Teaching in STX14 The Scholastic Aptitude Test or SAT has been vilified in recent years. Some colleges have dropped it and then added it back. What’...

Teaching in STX13 My eleventh and twelfth graders were a different story. In theory they had already completed their mathematical education and wer...

Teaching in STX12 Within the first few weeks at Manor School, I realized something was very wrong. I had distributed each class their textbooks and ...

Teaching in STX11 SHOW ME THE MONEY. If a private school is rolling in money, their finances can be kept under wraps. However, if a private school i...

Teaching in STX10 I got to meet the math teacher whose job I was replacing on his last day at the school. He had taught math to all the students in ...

Teaching in STX9 After my job at Complex ended in June, I thought about teaching in a private school. After all, I figured, it has to be better than...

Teaching in STX8 In February, after HOVENSA announced their closing and the end of our program in June, everything fell apart. This was both good an...

Teaching in STX7 I mentioned a couple of messages ago that I was determined to figure out why most of my students were such underachievers. Above, I...

Teaching in STX6 I seem to be complaining a great deal about St. Croix schools. However, there is one aspect of Massachusetts schools that I find fa...

Teaching in STX5 Cheating is universal. That’s my opinion based on my students in Massachusetts and St. Croix. As a teacher, I have always tried to ...

Teaching in STX4 Remember, I said that our program’s students were not very bright. One day I was walking the class through a problem at the board t...

Teaching in STX3 In Massachusetts, I taught five classes of twenty-five students each. They were packed in like sardines. The school district had in...

Blog update To everyone who has read or even just attempted to read my blog, thanks. I recently passed the one thousand click mark. If anyone has a ...

Thanks stxdreamer for the feedback. When I write these things, I feel like I’m speaking in a large room and the lighting is such that I can’t see if t...

Teaching in STX2 “I’m gonna mess you up.” These words came out of the mouth of a nineth grader who was standing toe to toe with me. I’m six feet...

Teaching in STX1 A quote that I will always remember came from a friend, Joneb Cohen, who when we had just arrived on island said referring to jobs,...

To stjohnjulie I intend to write about my time teaching on the island. But to answer your question – yes. If you look back a couple of messages to “...

Education can be a scary thing I have never been a fan of the American educational system. Growing up in Massachusetts, I attended a small town pu...

Dan McIntosh was a good friend. He was my boss AND he was my friend. We shared a desire to make the islands a better place. We both felt that the be...

DO NOT WASTE unless that’s the goal I’m not sure who the following statement is attributed to; I read it many years ago. It explains why the U...

I probably should stop talking about corruption. Judging by the volume of replies, no one is really interested. But I just can’t resist one more post....

Normalized Corruption – The DMV Going to the DMV is practically a euphemism for misery in the United States. In the Virgin Islands it contains an ex...

You gotta love WAPA, or not I read the other day that St. Croix was having rolling blackouts courtesy of WAPA. That got me thinking. Infrastructure ...

I would like to thank everyone who has attempted to read my blog. It’s veeeery boring; kind of like a high school textbook of a dull subject. So far i...

When Corruption Becomes Normalized Many years ago, when a friend of mine got married, he and his new wife decided to do something that would not be ...