Richard Buerkle's Blog (1)

I travel a lot. And when I travel I try to visit schools because I am a Spanish teacher here in Atlanta and want to compare teaching methods. Five years ago I was visiting Buenos Aires and arranged to visit a Catholic school. I wanted to go to an English classroom to compare the way the class is taught. But the principal would only let me go to a social studies classroom. What can I talk to them about, I thought? So I talked about one of the bigger social issues here in the USA: illegal immigrat… Continue