Getting Schooled 5
Andrew Snyder
Education on Broadway
I have a confession to make; I love Broadway musicals. Maybe this is not so much a confession as it is the further evidence that I am a complete nerd. There is just something about the concept of getting lost in the musical numbers of a famous play or watching actors onstage perform a different […]
Andrew Snyder
Cut the Teacher Bashing
If you have not already, I recommend you take a look at Dave Grohl’s article in The Atlantic titled “In Defense of our Teachers”. It is beautifully written and has a prose that I wish I had the power in me to mimic. In the article, he talks about his mom and the influences her […]
Andrew Snyder
The Decency of Masks
If I am like every other blue-collar American worker, I have had my fair share of grocery store runs during the age of Covid. Recently I took a trek to the local Walmart, mask in tow, in order to grab some quick things that we needed immediately and could not get through the pickup. As […]
Andrew Snyder
Race in the Classroom
The other day I had a discussion with a teacher friend about bringing up race in the classroom. If you cannot tell, I am not Black; and therefore I do not know what it is like being Black. I have never been the receiver of racist actions. Thus, to speak on race and racial issues […]
Andrew Snyder
Lesson 1: Welcome to Getting Schooled
Hello readers! Since this is the first of what I hope to be several weekly columns, I felt it best to introduce myself to the The Loafer’s readers. To start, every column or online blog has a theme, or what I am going to refer to as a vision. Some are satirical in nature, […]
