I posted recently that I don’t have a set of class rules, and a responder wondered how I go without rules. This may sound overly simple, but I tell my (high school) students that I only create rules if we need to have them. We only have them in my classes if students can’t respect one [...]

At my school we don’t allow pop to be sold until a certain time during the day (1 or 2 pm) because of the rise of child obesity, the increasing ingestion of caffeine, and the higher rates of childhood diabetes among other health concerns. Of course, the drop in sales has greatly affected the ASB [...]