Compassion Spring break this year was early and brief for Luxemburg-Casco, the district where I teach, but it wasn’t without special moments. On Saturday and Sunday, my daughter Genevieve (Viva) and I were able to go to the park and spend a few hours playing ball. She looked great with her new Rawlings glove, and we were able to break in her favorite Christmas present: the Louisville Slugger Blue Flame Pitching Machine. Those few hours were a taste of the many we’ll spend to

“Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam, we’ve all been there.” Michael Herr, Dispatches In my Advanced Placement Literature and Composition course at Luxemburg-Casco High School, one of our major units of study addresses America’s literary responses to warfare. It is an intriguing unit to teach in a school where students, staff, and visitors pass three shadow boxes upon entering the building, two of which contain the dress uniforms, and all three which honor, graduates who lost their live