Mueller Report
One thing that I have learned in my career as a high school teacher is that I should never try too hard to catch someone doing something wrong. I find that when I do, I tend to miss everything else that’s going on. For example, let’s say a student is on her phone in my classroom but she is concealing it in her bag. I know she is on her phone but I also know that this is a difficult crime to prove. If I accuse her of being on her phone, all she has to say is, “no, I was looking for my pencil.” What do I do then? Empty her bag? Check her phone and hope that something she was doing had a timestamp on it so I can prove she was using it at the exact time I accused her of using it? As the meme says, “ain’t nobody got time for that!” If I concentrate too much on this infraction, my teaching suffers. Learning suffers. Or, maybe, I miss some blatant infraction that is occurring on the other side of the classroom. So, what do you do, Mr. Walsh? Do you just let students use t