Steve Pollock

About Steve
Steve has been inhaling and exhaling since 1963. Now retired, he was a small-town daily newspaper reporter, public education communications director, elementary/secondary teacher, author, and 911 dispatcher.

About the Pics
A big part of this site contains AI test pics. I'm not fond of AI. It will fundamentally change the world for the worst. But as a toy, it's interesting. But just as a toy. People are, as usual, rushing headlong towards disaster.

About the Dogs
For 32 years, we've had beagles, and rescued basset hounds and mixed breeds: Beagles: Bayley, Feargal, Fergus, & Fred; full Bassets: Roux I, Sasha, and Roux II; And mixes Bosco, Tessa, & Loula, the mother of Goose, Charlie, & Dilly.

Tag: Teaching

AI Image of a distressed teacher crying in front of her students.

Pressure Cooker

Posted on by AirBeagle

The UK is currently struggling with the regime put in place, in a highly punitive way, to “grade” and “evaluate” schools. Ofsted, or the Office for Standards in Education, has an intense process designed to strike fear in everyone who gets a visit. So much stress and fear, in fact, that one Headmaster (principal) of…

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What a Web We Weave

Posted on by AirBeagle

I ran across a Twitter thread once upon a time [2018] that really ground my gears. So I wrote a response, but it’s too long for Twitter. It’s just much ado about nothing. But here is my response anyway. I am reading this bandwagon fallacy-laden thread through the lenses of being an English major, a…

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