“I wish more boys read more books.” Ever issued that lament? Help is on the way. I'm running out of ways to describe Jeff Kass' career in a succinct fashion, so I'll use list format this time: English and creative writing teacher at Pioneer High School, creative writing teacher at ...
My man Jeff Kass is performing his one-man show, Wrestle the Great Fear, Wednesday evening at the Eastern Michigan University Student Center. If you are now or have ever been a teacher or a student, then I highly recommend that you see this show. As an entertainment, Jeff's show is ...
A few years ago, my family took a trip to California during spring break to visit relatives. While staying with my brother-in-law’s family in Davis, I realized just how long a high-school student’s school day really is. In the morning, my wife and I would wake up at 7 a.m. ...
A week ago, feeling amped and restless after watching the end of the Michigan-Indiana game, I decide to go for a walk. We live close enough to the stadium to make a few bucks parking cars in our front yard, so after a game, a few thousand people stream through ...
You know that super-hip series, the Best American Non-Required Reading? Did you know that the content in the 2009 issue was chosen, in part, by teens in our community? One of the things I hear most at 826michigan, from adults, that is, is this: “I wish there had been an ...
At the top of the policies and procedures hand-out for my Creative Writing class, which I spend much of the first week going over with my students, is a quotation from the playwright George Bernard Shaw. I designate the quotation as the Mission Statement for what we’ll be doing throughout ...
At first, I don’t know them. They’re a blur. With Skyline now hosting sophomores as well as freshmen, I’m not sure how many students currently inhabit Pioneer, but it feels like around 2,000. I teach four sections of Creative Writing per day and I haven’t made an exact count, but ...
Recently I heard another person on NPR mention how Generation Y — loosely defined as anyone age 9 to 30, but perhaps more accurately translated as “kids these days” — is characterized by a sense of entitlement, selfishness, and materialism. The report cited as symptom a rash of college students ...
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