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The job is hard enough. Let teachers teach | Lloyd E. Sheaffer
If I were teaching now, I'm not sure that I'd stay want to stay in the profession, a 32-year veteran educator says.
As the pandemic loosens its grip, it’s time to reengage with the world | Lloyd E. Sheaffer
As Gustave Flaubert noted, 'Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.'
Get real, Republicans. Americans elected you to work, not obstruct | Lloyd E. Sheaffer
And then you can stop spreading the Big Lie and defend democracy like Real Republicans would.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, or not | Lloyd E. Sheaffer
While decorated trees, flying reindeer, perilous gift shopping excursions, and an overweight hirsute elf receive much of the holiday adulation, we should not forget that Christmas is at its heart a religious commemoration for Christians, the birth of Jesus, the Christ. For believers, Christmas is much more than a time that represents, on average, 19% of retail sales for a year.
2021: Our year of irony and tragedy | Lloyd E. Sheaffer
Pay attention; be informed; take action to avoid the impending calamity. It’s the only way we can keep our republic.
We need you, face to face, please get vaccinated | Lloyd E. Sheaffer
Having been liberated—or at least paroled—from their Zoom prison cells, people are beginning to act like, well, people again.
Because we are involved in mankind . . . Wear a mask | Lloyd E. Sheaffer
Tone down your bombast and put on a mask. Make a noble sacrifice. You are worth it. We all are worth it.
The fight over critical race theory is a solution in search of a problem | Lloyd E. Sheaffer
The GOP, traditionally seen as the “Grand Old Party” has devolved into the “Groveling Orange Party.”
It’ll take more than free doughnuts to get Americans vaccinated | Lloyd E. Sheaffer
What other incentive should you need? Please . . . get vaccinated.
When we discover that ‘us’ and ‘them’ aren’t really that different, we have no reason to fear ‘them’ | Lloyd E. Sheaffer
If we as a whole do not soon take steps to heal these fear-fostered divisions, our humanity will wither, and our inhumanity will devour us. That is something we all should fear.
In this season of hope, we need it more than ever | Lloyd E. Sheaffer
Let us all, leaders and constituents alike, engage ourselves fully in our holy days. Maybe then hope will thrive.
Our pandemic year. What we’ve learned. What we’ve lost. Where we go next | Lloyd E. Sheaffer
Let’s begin to take the small steps that we can to heal the wounds and soften the scars left by the assault of the ongoing pandemic.