Published: May 1, 2005

Bull’s-Eye

I’ve enjoyed Teacher Magazine for several years, but the November/December issue seemed to have something for me at every turn. My sister went to Simon’s Rock [ “Classic Rock” ]; my brother had Frank McCourt for high school English at Stuyvesant in the ’70s [ “Joyless Endeavors,” Comment]; my own school is a one-room school on an “isolated island” [ “Lost & Found” ]; we had one of those “Flat Stanleys” visit here [ “Paper Trail” ]—we took snapshots of him “playing hockey” on a frozen puddle—and I’m currently reading The Arctic Schooner Bowdoin to my middle schoolers, and the author just mentioned the Clearwater [ “Hudson River School” ]! Just thought I’d let you know how well you’re hitting...