Diary of a High School Teacher

Doreen Picozzi
2 min readSep 2, 2021

An intermittent reflection on another 182-day adventure, part one

First official day of class, September 2, 2021

After the last school year, we can handle almost anything. Photo by Brooke Cagle for Unsplash.

Things my students said today:

  • I want to be part of the newspaper club. But I don’t want to write. I want to join for the conversation.
  • Miss? Miss? Miss? Miss? Uh. I forgot what I wanted to say.

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Doreen Picozzi

Former journalist, former press secretary to a public official, now teacher of high school journalism and English, devoted wife, and mom of a true gentleman.