Open this link to discover the big surprise that Steven Singer’s students gave him on the last day of school.
It defines the term “psychic income.”
it explains the rewards that teachers may get that are never never never available to lawyers, hedge fund managers, even billionaires. Eli Broad will never win this prize. No member of the Walton Family will ever receive what Steven got from his eighth grade students on the last day of school.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Go Steven Singer! Yay. Terrific. 👍🍎
I love PUBLIC school teachers! 🌈
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Sweet
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Singer must be a truly amazing teacher. Those student evaluations are really, really telling.
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This is a lovely “Mr Chips” story. After reading the student responses, I guess it is safe to say that cursive is a dying art.
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Wonderful! Carpe diem, o captain, my captain.
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How wonderful for students to have a teacher like that and desks you can stand on. My students would crush our forty year old desks if given the opportunity to stand on the seats, let alone the desk tops.
I too have seen the analogy between the story told in Dead Poet’s Society and the modern tug of war between kids and standards..
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In this dreadful daily news cycle, this is absolutely the BEST story I’ve read in a long time.
Thanks to Steven Singer (w/a smile so wide it looks as if it will burst right off his face!) & his fantastic students for giving me something to smile about. & thanx to Diane for reposting.
Nice to be able to read something before bed (other than David Sedaris, but I’ve read every single one of his books already) that will send me off into a happy, peaceful sleep.
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