Wannetta's View
The Myths We Tell Our Children
by: Wannetta HartmanPublished on: 12/02/2025During a week of news filled with lies amongst leaders and conservative media, I am reminded of the missing virtues from those who are role models for our children.
A Call to Stand for Justice for All
by: Wannetta HartmanPublished on: 10/10/2020Standing alone, Colin Kaepernick silently stepped forward. Bending on one knee, hearing the crowd roar, seeing the fans stand and boo loudly, as the flag waved a sad good-bye to a united land of the free. Lowering his head, full of names of those who have died. Wondering how does a piece of cloth that stands for liberty and justice for All, become a weapon that allows the law to fall upon a knee on a victim’s neck? A victim who cries out in pain pleads for his life and needlessly dies. Whose only crime was being a Black man in a country that refuses to see.
Illusions vs Reality
by: Wannetta HartmanPublished on: 24/06/2020Are illusions being used as weapons by the current administration? Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play written by Edward Albee in 1962, and a good example of how illusion and reality plays out in the lives of people who try to fool others into believing the lies they tell themselves and the public.
My First Year of Teaching
by: Wannetta HartmanPublished on: 18/06/2020Education consumed a large part of my life. Though I am retired, memories surround me like a blanket that gives me comfort. Memories of my first year have lingered the longest. I guess firsts often do. I wasn’t a young first-year teacher. I waited for the realization that my children would someday find lives of their own. I feared that I would miss them so much that I might go crazy, therefore, I did the crazy thing first and became a teacher.
