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DaN McKee 4/28/21 DaN McKee 4/28/21

Teaching Myself - A New Blog

NEW BLOG ALERT

DaN McKee 12/29/20 DaN McKee 12/29/20

Obligatory 2020 Year In Review Post

“despite 2020 being the obvious poster child for an awful year, I don’t look back on it as the worst year ever. 2010 already wins that honour for me. The year my dad died unexpectedly and I became a teacher at the price of all my freedom. Or maybe 2012, the year my mom got her terminal cancer diagnosis? Or 2013, the year that she finally died? There have been worse years on a personal level and even on a global level”

DaN McKee 12/24/20 DaN McKee 12/24/20

COVID 19 - What I Didn’t Want for Christmas

“We are a cowardly profession that hides behind a misplaced sense of duty and, as a result, normalised dangerous behaviours across the country which have led us into this mess. “Just following orders” is never a good enough excuse. The government should be held accountable, yes, but more so the school leaders and unions who let them get away with it.”

DaN McKee 10/11/20 DaN McKee 10/11/20

Forced Alienation: On Being Swept Under The Rug

“I was asked by a colleague on Friday if everything was alright? They hadn’t seen me much around the school, and when they did, I didn’t seem my usual self. They said I seemed to be on my own a lot. Quiet. Not talkative. I looked like something was wrong.”

DaN McKee 9/13/20 DaN McKee 9/13/20

Observations From The Front

“It has been a week now since being thrust back into a busy school full of nearly a thousand people after six months of living safely and solitarily in lockdown. Here are some observations from the frontline of Covid 19, in one of the UK’s worst areas for infection, Birmingham, just days before we return to a stricter, nationally imposed, lockdown…”

DaN McKee 8/31/20 DaN McKee 8/31/20

To Bury Me Alive Again

“I am not merely returning to work tomorrow, I and all other teachers across the country are returning to be pawns in a political stunt that will put much of the country at great risk under the propagandist illusion of a moral imperative to get children back in school.”

DaN McKee 7/24/20 DaN McKee 7/24/20

Juggling

“Of course I knew only too well that looking back at that time period - the summer of 2010 - would also bring with it memories and emails of that horrible August morning the phone rang and a police officer informed me that my dad was dead.“

DaN McKee 7/22/20 DaN McKee 7/22/20

I Was Lost But Now I Am Found

“There are few positive things we can say about Covid 19, but if there is any silver lining to this ever-blackening cloud it is that the world being forced to stop for a few months gave everyone who was able to take advantage of it the opportunity to reflect.”