Share your worst (or best) experience in your teaching writing career

If you've been teaching writing more than 20 minutes, you have a story about a year, a class, or a student that pushed you to the edge.

Maybe you had a student who was turned-off, struggling, learning disabled, or just plain ornery.

Maybe you had one of those classes that sat like lumps no matter what you did.

Maybe your struggle was with parents or (gasp!) administrators.

Whatever your story, your fellow sufferers would love to hear what happened.

We might laugh a little (we're human, after all), but we will feel your pain. And we'd love to hear what you learned from your experience. Would you handle the situation differently today than you did then?

Or course, we'd be happy to hear good stories, too. (Sigh). Those don't seem to happen as often.