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Derek Davidson
- Jun 2, 2020
- 6 min
Snapshot of Minneapolis
trying to make sense of this crazy intersection of race and justice and safety and parenting and teaching.
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Derek Davidson
- May 26, 2020
- 2 min
We're here. George Floyd is not.
As part of my job as an educator, I have, at times, had to restrain teenagers.
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Derek Davidson
- May 8, 2020
- 3 min
Simple Wrong
There is a major difference between being not bad and being good.
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Derek Davidson
- Apr 28, 2020
- 2 min
The Skid
Today is not a Monday or Tuesday. It is only Today. Tomorrow and yesterday share its Today-ness.
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Derek Davidson
- Mar 30, 2020
- 3 min
Lessons that won't get taught.
If the relationships don’t persist, did the teachers only care because they were paid to?
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Derek Davidson
- Mar 30, 2020
- 4 min
Diego
What I’ll never be okay with is an arbitrary 50 minute cage around the learning in my room.
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Derek Davidson
- Mar 10, 2020
- 2 min
The Second Half of the Chessboard
Is that a quintillion?
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Derek Davidson
- Mar 5, 2020
- 3 min
Joy
Now the pile of non-related shittiness is sort of throbbing at me, begging to be aggregated.
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Derek Davidson
- Feb 28, 2020
- 6 min
LaToya
Between the years of 2007 and 2016 my car had the word “Bitch” keyed into the hood. I left it there as a reminder.
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Derek Davidson
- Feb 25, 2020
- 5 min
Invisible Gifts
It’s not an oxymoron: an Uneducated Gifted Kid.
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Derek Davidson
- Feb 11, 2020
- 11 min
Texas vs. Minnesota
Texas will always be my heart’s home. But my body lives in Minneapolis.
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Derek Davidson
- Feb 5, 2020
- 4 min
Sisyphus
Drowning was elegant—everything was the same except now you’re dead.
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Derek Davidson
- Feb 3, 2020
- 1 min
Ten Absurd Questions I Can Imagine My Very Educated Wife Enthusiastically Asking My Dog
Like seven of these are basically verbatim.
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Derek Davidson
- Jan 27, 2020
- 4 min
Mr. Huey
Mr. Huey was not cool, not even a little bit.
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Derek Davidson
- Jan 21, 2020
- 5 min
"Why don't you drink?"
I cannot stop eating gas station food, despite it being, you know, gas station food.
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Derek Davidson
- Jan 15, 2020
- 10 min
Wren
I would wake up looking a total mess, something like Encino Man, unable to find my clothes, languid and gawking at her.
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