The Ogre's Poetry Den: empty walls:
empty walls
posters taken down
so boring
desolate
testing takes priority
over teaching kids
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Posts about teaching, learning, writing and reading. All from the point of view of a retired old ogre of an English teacher. Hope you like it!
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