Author: Andrea Rinard

Andrea Rinard is a Florida native and long-time high school English teacher who is now also an emerging writer. One of her life's current luxuries is being a part of the graduate certificate program in creative writing at the University of South Florida. Her work has recently been published in Crack the Spine and is forthcoming in the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. She can be found on Twitter @aprinard.

I Really Do Need That Yellow Binder

I Really Do Need That Yellow Binder – Medium

As a mom, I know that back-to-school shopping gets expensive. When my kids were in elementary school, I spent around $50 per kid for school supplies. The amount went up when they hit middle school and had multiple teachers asking for stuff. When it was time for high school, there were things like large capacity flash drives and engineering-grade calculators that jacked my totals above the triple-digit watermark. Multiply that by three kids, and add in the uniforms and backpacks and other things my progeny deemed necessary, and it made me clutch my pearls at the checkout.

As a teacher, though, I am unapologetic about my supply list.

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Sixth Period

This piece comes from a bad, scary place. My teacher brothers and sisters in America will likely find it all too familiar, unfortunately. It begins with a term with which you may not be familiar: a “hard corner” is the place you hide where an active shooter cannot see you from the hallway door or window. Some schools even encourage (or mandate) that their teachers mark the hard corner areas on the floors of their classroom.

Sixth Period, Published in Spelk

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