Doctor Bates
My blogs
| Occupation | SPED Teacher |
|---|---|
| Location | Imaginal Morocco |
| Introduction | I have come to a frightening conclusion. I am the decisive element in the classroom. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or de-humanized. |
| Interests | Punks, Pirates and Paddy's |
| Favorite movies | Sacco & Vanzetti, Matewan, Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky And The Media, Land & Freedom - Ken Loach, La Commune [Paris, 1871], Lucifer Rising, Maybe Logic, Horns And Halos, Giant: Awake!/¡Gigante: Despierta!, The Corporation, Supersize Me, Murderball, CLITFest 2004: The Documentary, Bill Hicks Live: Satirist, Social Critic, Stand Up Comedian, Hidden Wars Of Desert Storm, Ammo For The Info Warrior, American Blackout, 3 Black Panthers & The Last Slave Plantation, Half Nelson, The Substitute - just kidding... |
| Favorite music | The Coup, The Stooges, Mc5, Black Sabbath, Amebix, Dystopia, Dead Prez, Axegrinder, Appalachian Terror Unit, Behind Enemy Lines, Motorhead, Bongwater and NoMeansNo |
| Favorite books | Wild Children: A Zine For Kids Age 0-18 - Peter Lamborn Wilson (Editor), Teaching Tough Kids: What We Can Learn From Five Provocative Educators - Bob Davis, Beyond Heroes And Holidays: A Practical Guide To K-12 Anti-Racist, Multicultural Education And Staff Development - Margo Okazawa-Rey (Editor), Criminal Of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless In America - Tiny and Lisa Gray-Garcia, The New Press Education Reader - Ellen Gordon Reeves (Editor), Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: WhatYour History Books Got Wrong - James W. Loewen, Stories From El Barrio - Piri Thomas, Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives To Suicide For Teens, Freaks And Other Outlaws - Kate Bornstein, Education's Iron Cage: And Its Dismantling In The New Global Order - Our Schools/Our Selves (Editor), A Little Piece Of Ground - Elizabeth Laird, Teaching With Voices of a People's History of the United States By Howard Zinn And Anthony Arnove - Gayle Olson-Raymer (Editor), A Place Where Sunflowers Grow - Felicia Hoshino (Illustrator) and Amy Lee-Tai, A People's History Of The United States Abridged Teaching Edition Volume 1%2 Abridged Teaching Edition - Howard Zinn, The Power In Our Hands: A Curriculum On The History Of Work And Workers In The United States - Norman Diamond and Bill Bigelow, The Color Of Dissent Book One - Jay Moreno (Illustrator) and Nicole Waugh (Editor), Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong - James W. Loewen, Walk Like A Warrior: A Young Man's Survival Guide - Health Initiatives For Youth (Editor), Robert F. Williams: Self Respect, Self Defense, & Self Determination. Freedom Archives (Editor) and Robert F Williams (Audio), The I Hate Corporate America Reader: How Big Companies From McDonald's To Microsoft Are Destroying Our Way Of Life - LIza Featherstone, The Modern School Movement: Anarchism And Education In The United States - Paul Avrich |