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It's Monday, May 12, 2025. Today, the editor details how teaching has forever changed the way he will approach education journalism, and threading together dignity.
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FROM THE EDITOR: How Teaching Changed Everything
By Martin Davis
Effective May 24, I return full-time to journalism. After two years as a teacher at James Monroe High School, however, my reporting on education will never again be the same.
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Providing Items of Warmth, Comfort, and Dignity to the Community
By Adele Uphaus
In November of 2022, 13 ladies with a love for sewing, knitting, crocheting, and community service came together to form Community Threads, a Fredericksburg-area nonprofit that provides handcrafted comfort items to local individuals, shelters, schools, and care facilities.
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Best wishes, and thank both you and your wife for your service.
Though while reading your article, I thought how similar the frustrations were to those of people who work in corrections / law enforcement. I remember watching many, many people, mostly young men, who came into the system without the basic capabilities to operate in society, yet who matured into strong adults. And couldn't help but wonder at the time that if someone had taught them right from wrong when they were 2/3/4/5/6 years old and beyond - they probably would have never been in jail.
But by the time they did mature, and understand their limits and responsibilities - they often had a felony label on them which we all know limits their capabilities unless they get on TV and start a cult for idiots, but that's a whole other issue.
Anyway, again, thanks for your work.
Time and again, we see our society use folk such as yourself in loco parentis, but then doesn't give them the time nor resources to perform the work. And no one is more of a BS detector than a teenage child.
Here's to all who have and had the patience to deal with them. Take care.