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Columnist Susan Wozniak: Lessons learned at a community college
SUSAN WOZNIAK
Published: 2/26/2021 8:58:13 AM
A college friend, who made teaching at a community college her career, is glad to see that our new First Lady will shine a light on the necessary role CCs play. Although my time teaching first remedial writing, then college writing, at a community college was brief, it gifted me with indelible memories.
During my remedial teaching time, I looked up to see one of my students typing at a high rate of speed. The assignment was one of those short drills meant to help them tackle essay exams. He had nothing else open on the computer. I thought this fellow was misplaced. He passed the exam to go on to college English, skipping, one, possibly two remedial classes. I was right and was happy for him.
Columnist Susan Wozniak: ‘No other word for my feelings but crushed’
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Published: 2/2/2021 1:31:26 PM
In high school, I was half of the girls who did not take home ec. I had immediately become involved with the school paper and I filled the blank hours of my schedule with the opportunity to work with the journalism teacher. The other free-from-home-ec student was a musician, a pianist who accompanied the newly founded chorus and spent her open hours with the music teacher.
Frankly, at 14, I was happy not to take home ec. I heard stories about making white sauce and sewing aprons, which I never wanted to do. Learn to bake bread? Sure! Work with a local seamstress to design my own clothes? Delightful. Otherwise, I wanted to avoid what I saw as busy work.