GREAT Teachers
By Mickey Dunaway — Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine | OCT 2024| Cornelius, NC As a high school assistant principal and principal of 17 years, I always dreaded when October rolled… Read more GREAT Teachers →
Practicing Just in Case
By Mickey Dunaway Reprinted with Permission by Currents Magazine April 2024 | Cornelius, NC I worked on my bachelor’s degree at Auburn University from 1965-69 in the prototypical college town… Read more Practicing Just in Case →
Where is MY Student Loan Forgiveness Payment?
By Mickey Dunaway A few words about President Biden’s forgiving student loans for more than 800,000 borrowers of $39,000,000. Qualifications to comment. I was a loan borrower for my bachelor’s, master’s,… Read more Where is MY Student Loan Forgiveness Payment? →
The Amazins of 2002
By Mickey Dunaway The last four games of this forgetful Auburn football season and how one native Auburn son turned the gloom into glory even with a record of 5-6 is uniquely Auburn. This year’s Cadillac-turnaround actually began in November 1972, and here is the story. ~~~~~~~~ It was second-ranked Alabama and ninth-ranked Auburn playing the tenth and final regular season game at Alabama’s “home turf” of Birmingham’s Legion Field. Alabama was 9-0, and Auburn was 8-1, losing only to LSU in Baton Rouge. No TV for this game back in 1972. Seventy-two… Read more The Amazins of 2002 →
He Ain’t Southern—He’s my Hero
By Mickey Dunaway, Professor of School Law Mike McLeod and I spent many hours in the classrooms and hallways of Semmes High School, a good public back in the early… Read more He Ain’t Southern—He’s my Hero →
“Pissing My Pants” in Alabama
by Mickey Dunaway NOTE TO READERS: Normally, this time of the month, I post the column that I write for Limitless Magazine, a publication aimed at the older crowd who live… Read more “Pissing My Pants” in Alabama →
Wisdom of Willie T. Ford
By Mickey Dunaway Since 2002, a vast school district near me has employed and fired eight superintendents. That averages out to 2.5 years per superintendent. Makes me contemplate the smarts of Mark Twain regarding Boards… Read more Wisdom of Willie T. Ford →
NONNEGOTIABLES: 45 Years On
By Mickey Dunaway I was asked over the last weekend to give some long-distance career advice to a former student I taught when I was an adjunct professor at the… Read more NONNEGOTIABLES: 45 Years On →
Southern Exposures 