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    A Mouse in the Classroom
    A Mouse in the Classroom
    A Mouse in the Classroom
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    A Mouse in the Classroom

    By TJ Seitz

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    Essay about the day and what happened when a mouse appeared in an inner city in-school-suspension classroom.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTJ Seitz
    Release dateJun 1, 2014
    ISBN9781311852694
    A Mouse in the Classroom
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    TJ Seitz

    On the surface Mr. Seitz appears to be a quintessential middle aged male. TJ is married to his HS sweetheart and lives with his family in a suburban split level house located on the outskirts of Rochester, NY. Seitz has spend the majority of his professional career working as an information technology specialist in the fields of education, criminal justice/law enforcement and procurement. While working full time, TJ also attended college part time (and sometimes full time). To keep himself (relatively speaking) sane he majored and minored in non-technology subjects, earning a BA in English with a writing concentration from Saint John Fisher College and a MA in Social Policy from Empire State College. As an undergraduate student TJ attended writing classes taught by George Saunders and Judith Kitchen (though neither teacher would probably remember him). Distractions like kicking virtual wasp’s nests on BITNET Listservs (predecessors to social networking sites like Facebook), soliciting donations for a Panty Alter fund and hanging out with a heavily medicated professional drummer named Dirtbag interfered with TJ’s ability to write anything particularly noteworthy for either class. He also attended a workshop at the Omega Institute mentored by Marge Piercy and Ira Wood. In reality the stable full time jobs have been serving as functional fronts for TJ’s secret life as a writer. They provided him with money to pay his bills and experiential material to write about. The down side of working and going to college was that he did not have a lot of time to devote to writing and publishing. Adding a problematic first marriage, babies, a divorce, a few bouts with unemployment and colon cancer to the mix did not help much either. TJ is currently working on several writing projects/ideas and recently took a graduate writing class proctored by James Whorton. Mr. Seitz's essays and letters have been printed in both local and national publications. His poetry has been published both in the United States and England.

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      A Mouse in the Classroom

      T.J. Seitz

      Copyright 2014 by T.J. Seitz

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      While working as an in-school suspension (ISS) teacher at an inner city high school I noticed that mice liked to visit my classroom.

      Students didn’t pick up their messes and the cleaning staff was not very thorough. Most of the faculty on our level of the building did not have access to brooms and dustpans because they were all broken or stolen at the beginning of the school year.

      Teenagers indiscriminately littered the floor with their snack wrappers and food scraps throughout the day.

      Half eaten pieces of pizza, apple cores, orange peels and open packets of ranch dressing were removed from the insides of desks regularly.

      The former science lab was small and unventilated. All windows were covered with

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