Hello writing family,
Anne Lamott's book, Traveling Mercies, is a blessing. I just wanted to recommend to to you as I go a-traveling again.
It's kinda cool, when I first taught for the District my family did all sorts of things that left me feeling like I somehow, was an imposter, that I hadn't earned it for myself. And I'd been teaching in all sorts of venues already, but this was the first time I would be a public school teacher, just like, mom, aunt, sister, grandparents, daddy, and on the list goes. The imposter thing, it's real and true.
In the way Anne Lamott thinks, all that has happened so far has allowed me to have a chance to see that I was always meant to be a teacher, to know that I'm not an imposter, I'm real. I can bring that reality into service, communication and understanding, to everyone's benefit. We all learn when service is our purpose and language is our tool.
So thanks, keep me in your prayers as I cross the desert and go to the sea.
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Drug and Prostitution charges against a FMS Teacher!
FARMINGTON — The Farmington woman arrested on allegations of drug trafficking and promoting prostitution Tuesday is a teacher at a local middle school.
A Farmington Municipal School District administrator confirmed that 40-year-old Anna Marie Schroth of Farmington is a teacher at Mesa View Middle School.
Chris Pash, the district's executive director of human resources, said in a statement that Schroth has been placed on leave while the district investigates the incident. She has been teaching at Mesa View for about two and a half years, Pash said in telephone interview.
"We are aware of the charges against Ms. Schroth. We are looking into the situation," Pash said in the statement.
Schroth, 40, is facing felony charges for promoting prostitution, conspiracy to commit drug trafficking and a misdemeanor charge for tampering with evidence. Her charges are in connection to the arrest of 41-year-old Jordan Carter on July 15.
No attorney had been assigned to Schroth's case as of Wednesday evening, according to the New Mexico Courts website.
Carter was pulled over by a Farmington Police Department officer after the officer spotted a vehicle speed through a stop light at Tucker Avenue and San Juan Boulevard.
During the traffic stop, Carter allegedly reached for a handgun that was next to a bag filled with a white powder on the floorboard, The Daily Times reported.
Ammunition and 11.11 grams of methamphetamine were found during a search of the vehicle, according to the affidavit for Schroth’s arrest.
The vehicle Carter was driving was registered to Schroth, according to San Juan County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Kevin Burns, an operations supervisor with the Region II Narcotics Task Force, which is handling the ongoing investigation.
According to the affidavit, Schroth admitted to law enforcement officials that she received a phone call from Carter from the San Juan County Detention Center telling her to “clean the house,” and she understood that to mean clean up the drugs and drug paraphernalia in her home. She also stated Carter was living with her at her Farmington home.
Schroth also admitted to helping Carter package and deliver methamphetamine, according to the affidavit.
A search warrant was executed on Schroth’s home, where drugs, including prescription medications, marijuana and a brown powdery substance that tested positive for codeine were found, according to the affidavit. Drug paraphernalia and two guns — a .22 caliber revolver and a bolt-action rifle with a scope — also were found.
According to the affidavit, Schroth admitted to authorities that she set up an ad on a website for a woman called Star for “the purpose of sex activity,” that she paid for Star’s motel room, clothes and cell phone, and that she received money from Star's activities with her clients.
Carter remained in custody today at the San Juan County Detention Center with no bond, and Schroth was released on a $30,000 bond Tuesday night.
Joshua Kellogg covers education for The Daily Times. He can be reached at 505-564-4627.
Equity Immigrant self-deports op-ed piece for Daily Times
Equity Immigration and New Mexico
People who try to benefit from their earned equity in states that are richer than New Mexico, that would be the 48 states, except for Mississippi, will not succeed. On purpose.
In 2005 I brought my heart, soul, talents and money to San Juan County. At the close of escrow in 2005 I should have known what was coming - the seller's agent was the only agent working the sale. No wonder I am getting sued for possession of my driveway 11 years later.
And then there's the thing about working here. Schools are pork, the money is for the locals. But the problem is that the locals lack education. Locals administer and outsiders work, but not easily or for long. Job performance is irrelevant in New Mexico. Pay to play, if you know the right person to pay.
Last year I earned top evaluations, but still was terminated for NO REASON. The district refused to give a reason, or even a termination notice for that matter. Get a lawyer? Not unless your injuries killed you, then the lawyer will represent your estate and take as much of it as possible.
In 2007 my neighbor physically attacked me. The sheriff who wrote the incident report wrote things that even in SJC, nine years later, cause alarm. Painful as it was to see things so ignorant and prejudiced in print about me, I'm glad I reviewed the record. It was written by a guy named "Webb." The clerk who printed out the report read it, and told me I needed to see the captain. She said "none of these people still work here, and this is not how we document cases now."
This is bad enough, but the San Juan County principal who has made it his mission to see me destroyed has the same last name. He said the same things about me as were written in this battery report. When my neighbor succeeded in using physical violence against me, I ws so scared I left and went back to California.
Equity immigration doesn't work from poor states to rich states. I left California over quality of life issues, crowded, not enough land too much pavement. As if we can really improve our lives. Most people who move here cannot leave. New Mexico will beat you down financially, physically and emotionally, and gloat as you circle the drain.
Farmington boasts of being American's fastest shrinking city. Everywhere in the press the deplorable state of New Mexico, New Mexicans and the patronismo that fuels corruption is news that others use to avoid this state. What's up New Mexico? Are you so scared of being a fair, just and productive society that a citizen of the United States cannot safely move here and expect to enjoy the same rights to property ownership and employment that those in less benighted states do?
Guess so.
People who try to benefit from their earned equity in states that are richer than New Mexico, that would be the 48 states, except for Mississippi, will not succeed. On purpose.
In 2005 I brought my heart, soul, talents and money to San Juan County. At the close of escrow in 2005 I should have known what was coming - the seller's agent was the only agent working the sale. No wonder I am getting sued for possession of my driveway 11 years later.
And then there's the thing about working here. Schools are pork, the money is for the locals. But the problem is that the locals lack education. Locals administer and outsiders work, but not easily or for long. Job performance is irrelevant in New Mexico. Pay to play, if you know the right person to pay.
Last year I earned top evaluations, but still was terminated for NO REASON. The district refused to give a reason, or even a termination notice for that matter. Get a lawyer? Not unless your injuries killed you, then the lawyer will represent your estate and take as much of it as possible.
In 2007 my neighbor physically attacked me. The sheriff who wrote the incident report wrote things that even in SJC, nine years later, cause alarm. Painful as it was to see things so ignorant and prejudiced in print about me, I'm glad I reviewed the record. It was written by a guy named "Webb." The clerk who printed out the report read it, and told me I needed to see the captain. She said "none of these people still work here, and this is not how we document cases now."
This is bad enough, but the San Juan County principal who has made it his mission to see me destroyed has the same last name. He said the same things about me as were written in this battery report. When my neighbor succeeded in using physical violence against me, I ws so scared I left and went back to California.
Equity immigration doesn't work from poor states to rich states. I left California over quality of life issues, crowded, not enough land too much pavement. As if we can really improve our lives. Most people who move here cannot leave. New Mexico will beat you down financially, physically and emotionally, and gloat as you circle the drain.
Farmington boasts of being American's fastest shrinking city. Everywhere in the press the deplorable state of New Mexico, New Mexicans and the patronismo that fuels corruption is news that others use to avoid this state. What's up New Mexico? Are you so scared of being a fair, just and productive society that a citizen of the United States cannot safely move here and expect to enjoy the same rights to property ownership and employment that those in less benighted states do?
Guess so.
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
THANK YOU!
I just wanted to say thank you Bisti Writing Family. I am going back into the classroom as a third grade teacher at Apache. My class will be writing the first day.
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
The Painted Bird
Dead Dove
A true story from a few minutes ago
The magpies are loud, always loud. The ruckus in the cottonwood outside my window took a while to get my attention. By the time I moved to investigate, it was too late. Even Cooper was laid low enough to stay behind in the house - labs are rarely so deflated.
Outside, I yelled and clapped and stamped my feet. Magpies rose from the branches like dust from an old rug, in billowing clouds of wing and cry. The crow they were harrying jetted away in a different direction. And I started to pick up feathers. Not crow black, not magpie white, but grey. Dove gray.
There were so many feathers strewn across the deck. Not just big wing and tail feathers, but downy clusters, pins bloody. I found her and buried her beneath the lilacs.
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The artist that lives in my writer head is done with this piece, right here. But the writing teacher that supports the artist, (or does her best to quash the artist so she can keep a job) has some more to say here.
What was a lone dove doing there, caught in a fight that wasn't hers?
Was she roosting when they all arrived in their war?
Was she killed some other way, and all the fighting from above just happened later?
Do people who get involved with caring about this kind of nature stuff have any legitimate claim on your attention?
I like a text that asks more questions than it answers. People like what they're used to:
Remember Gunsmoke?
Doc to Festus: Your brain must get lonely up there in your skull, rattling around like a mustard seed in a tin can.
Grace to Grace: Your brain must get hungry up there in your skull, with nothing but your own questions, rattling around like mustard seeds in a tin can.
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
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