The Poke-a-Hole-in-the-Wall Gang

When reading stories in Nevada's newspapers about your local school district, you can usually see traces of school-district news-management. Because reporters on the local "education beat" depend on district employees -- usually called something like "director of Community and Government Relations" -- for information on what's going on, the school districts are able to "manage" what the public learns by placing intelligent and highly paid public relations people in those press-relations spots. The result is that the public rarely learns what really is going on inside Nevada's school districts -- or why public-school failure has been systemic in the state for decades.

That's the reason we believe a real need exists for TeacherTalk Nevada. It's also the reason we call ourselves "The Poke-a-Hole-in-the-Wall Gang." 
 

Slim Slim, TTN's moderator, resembles Britt, the reluctant but lethal knife fighter in The Magnificent Seven. A former teacher union building rep, Slim has taught in schools throughout Nevada, as well as the juvenile detention system. He is a husband and father of two. Flatnose Former Northern Nevada art teacher who spent too much time out on the Black Rock Desert. Takes his screen name from George 'Flatnose' Currie, one of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch. Not much is known about the original Flatnose, and TTN's Flatnose aspires to be similarly unknown.

Yippee A retired Nevada social studies teacher and former pugilist, Yippee taught a total of 23 years in three public high schools in two school districts. He also worked in the 'real world' in sales and marketing and was successfully self-employed for many years. He tried to bring his "real world" experiences into the classroom and would like to see our public schools become more a part of the "real world."

Old Pancake Old Pancake comes from a long line of teachers and lovers of learning. Alienated in his dismay at what public schools have become, he's decided his loyalties now lie on the 'outlaw' side of the line.

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