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Teacher Tails - Karrer Shorts

Short stories. No annoying ads. No mercenary pitches. Just stories to warm your heart. Vetted published articles/tales/short stories (L.A.Times, Newsweek, Seattle Times, Teacher Magazine, Chicken Soup, Miami Herald, etc.) by Paul H.Karrer about: Kids, Teachers, Parents, Education, Korea, Incarceration, Samoa, Peace Corps, New Zealand, California, Connecticut, Teaching, Dogs, Chess, Multicultural Marriage, Foods-real or imagined and more. Most are light-hearted.

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16:28

40 Peace Corps UNCLE MIKEY (PART 2) - SUPER CHICKENS

Teacher Tails - Karrer Shorts ·

2023/01/29

Peace Corps volunteer Uncle Mikey is up to his catastrophic doings again. It's all about Chickens, but spearfishing matters too.Support the showThanks for listening.

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39 Peace Corps Uncle Mikey and the Famed Winged...

Teacher Tails - Karrer Shorts ·

2023/01/26

A Peace Corps volunteer attempts to set an example for his host village with his garden. Things go massively awry. This volunteer is renown for being shadowed by screw ups - these events were triggered by what became known as as THE TURMOIL FACTOR.Support the showThanks for listening.

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7:57

38. The Lettuce Curtain & Pablo Sandoval

Teacher Tails - Karrer Shorts ·

2023/01/23

On a morning P.E. run a 5th-grade teacher learns things about his kids. Some sad - some wonderful.Support the showThanks for listening.

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6:34

37. Fiddler's Tears

Teacher Tails - Karrer Shorts ·

2023/01/21

Some 5th grade girls beg their teacher to come in class during his lunch break. Teacher practices his fiddle. - WARNING!! THERE IS A SUPER BRIEF WRETCHEDLY HORRIBLE RENDITION OF "ANGELINE THE BAKER" But suffer a bit and listen to commentary. CuteSupport the showThanks for listening.

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36. Samoa - Pigs DO Fly

Teacher Tails - Karrer Shorts ·

2023/01/18

A Peace Corps teacher of science learns many things in South Pacific's Samoa - like Pigs DO fly.Support the showThanks for listening.

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35. Korea - A Glorious Robbery

Teacher Tails - Karrer Shorts ·

2023/01/17

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34 MLK Day-Teacher, were YOU a racist?

Teacher Tails - Karrer Shorts ·

2023/01/15

After a lesson on the origins of MLK Junior Day, a 5th grader asks, "Teacher were YOU a racist?" The teacher rethinks his knee-jerk reaction and admits yes. But there's even more to this story...Support the showThanks for listening.

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10:47

33. Jungle Boots

Teacher Tails - Karrer Shorts ·

2023/01/14

A Peace Corps volunteer in Samoa but from Texas looooves his boots. But how long can leather boots last in the jungle?Support the showThanks for listening.

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2:56

31. Kids - Bathroom Pass

Teacher Tails - Karrer Shorts ·

2023/01/13

One teacher has ZERO bathroom problems with his 2nd graders. WHY? A principal finds the reason.Support the showThanks for listening.

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32. New Zealand. HOPE

Teacher Tails - Karrer Shorts ·

2023/01/13

A Peace Corps Volunteer (me) completes his 2 years in Samoa. He goes to New Zealand and wonders will he fit in to normal society again. Will people be decent? He has a heart-warming and humanity at its best experience.Support the showThanks for listening.

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30. Korea - City of the Lepers

Teacher Tails - Karrer Shorts ·

2023/01/09

Korean story I had published in San Francisco Chronicle. A friend explains how her best friend in high school lived in a quarantined city of lepers Sang Dong - because both her parents had the disease. Heart-warming story about friendship, special shoes with a happy endingSupport the showThanks for listening.

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7:55

29. Prison - A Regular Day

Teacher Tails - Karrer Shorts ·

2023/01/04

A former student incarcerated at age 13 describes a typical day in Corcoran Prison.Support the showThanks for listening.

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9:52

28 Code Blue School Intruder!!

Teacher Tails - Karrer Shorts ·

2023/01/03

A teacher tells how he dealt with his 5th-grade class lock down after hearing a gun shot and seeing a police officer crawl beneath his class window with a drawn gun. Happy ending... fortunately.Support the showThanks for listening.

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27. Cracking Up

Teacher Tails - Karrer Shorts ·

2022/12/31

Two guys take a hike across a reservoir in Connecticut. The ice has a surprise for them. Also the story is a metaphor for one of the guys, who unfortunately like the ice, has become less and less solid over time.Support the showThanks for listening.

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7:57

26 The Hug-o-saurs

Teacher Tails - Karrer Shorts ·

2022/12/30

A teacher deals with series of events at the same time. A child has stapled her thumb. A child outside is dancing in a puddle. Some parents think they have a conference NOW!Support the showThanks for listening.

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25. The Baby Flight

Teacher Tails - Karrer Shorts ·

2022/12/26

A Connecticut Yankee teaching English in Korea delivers three orphans to their new families in New York on Christmas Eve. But one of the infants has massive disabilities. What is going on? Do the new parents know?Support the showThanks for listening.

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4:28

23 That's My Mom

Teacher Tails - Karrer Shorts ·

2022/12/19

A wonderfully resilient 5th grader deals with her mom's death in a heartwarming and magnificent way.Support the showThanks for listening.

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4:56

24 Granny The Racist

Teacher Tails - Karrer Shorts ·

2022/12/19

A woman in a store accuses me of being a racist after I address her and the child with her (she's Anglo) in English and then Spanish. My small Frenchie wanted to say hi to them and I wanted them to feel at ease.Support the showThanks for listening.

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22. Kid Story - Why a 5th Grade Girl Hated Singing

Teacher Tails - Karrer Shorts ·

2022/12/13

A 5th-grader confesses she detests singing. The why is heart-breaking.Support the showThanks for listening.

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21. Escape to School

Teacher Tails - Karrer Shorts ·

2022/12/12

An ill 2nd grader escapes to school. He doesn't want to miss class. The teacher told them finish school...go to college. Years later teacher and student meet. What happened to the kiddo?Support the showThanks for listening.

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