And it was that work that held and still holds our school community together during the ongoingness of COVID. I do small group work, social and emotional skill-building. I’m each of their family’s main point of contact. We have an advising model, so I have a caseload of students who I communicate with constantly.
I love our school’s community, and I love the work we are trying to do. You hear lots of words like flexibility and adaptability and such. I have a lot of criticisms with charter school culture: there’s a pervasive urgency that feels neoliberal at its core. I’m an 11th grade English teacher at a small charter school named Comp Sci High in the South Bronx. I asked seven writers about their day jobs and how they manage to produce work in their off hours without losing their minds. In a diary entry dated 1911, Kafka writes that having a day job “is a horrible double life from which there is probably no escape but insanity.” Academia and publishing offer literature-adjacent careers to a small number of writers (who must find time for their own work even within these literary industries), and the rest of us are left to eke out our livelihoods in nontraditional ways, balancing odd hours and demanding labor with creative work (not to mention regular lives of meals, children, exercise, even-dare I say- leisure?).
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