Why am I here?

Shit. Why did I start out with that question? Is the answer 42?

I'm new at this blogging crap, so excuse me if I use too many scattelogical references as I get started. And a Douglas Adams or two.

I am a veteran school teacher who has just re-entered the profession after a cushy day job. It is hard to do, this school teaching, and I'm hoping to make this blog a place where I can process this all, and maybe even publish it down the road when I become rich and famous.

Now that I've jinxed myself, I might as well lay it all on the line. I'm modeling this blog after one I admired a few years back: tardblog.com. It is now defunct, but it was full of shocking stories about public education in the special education classroom. My world is a bit less insane; it's a high school journalism classroom in the heartland.

Stay tuned as the editor-in-chiefs who know it all leave, and how the Adviser who knows nothing tries to survive without them.