The first week back was nothing short of really insane. Just to show you how insane it was, let me tell you about today. So I'm standing at my door and greeting my kids when this girl walks into my class. And I think to myself, “hmmm… somethings not right”, but for some reason I can’t quite put my finger on it. So the bell rings and I come inside to take attendance, and that is when I realize what it is. My student is dressed in a full on superhero outfit. Cape, tiara and for whatever reason black electrical tape on her face… and all I can do is look at my T.A. and say, “why me?”, to which he said, "seriously" and we both sighed in the knowledge that this was going to be the strangest of all my classes. You can’t imagine how hard it was, since today of all days was my teacher student confrence day. There I was thinking as she walked up to my desk, do I tell her to take the tiara off, since I don’t allow hats in my room? Or do play that ignorance is bliss and pretent that the child infront of me does not have electrical tape on her face? I chose avoidance, but could not help but laugh when she told another one of my students to get out of her force field.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Friday, July 2, 2010
Back in the saddle again
It has been a while since I wrote… and maybe I need to explain by just saying that this was the hardest year of teaching yet. And I am firm believer that if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all… so I have not said anything for a while…
But now it is summer vacation and I am ready to start writing again, because graduation and a few weeks of vacation reminded me why I am a teacher. I thought that I would write my first entry back in the blogging world about a student I wrote about earlier in the year. He was expelled for which I won’t go into detail, but it broke my heart. That was only the second time that I have ever let my kids see me cry (the other being when a close friend died). I was devastated, because I felt like I had failed as a teacher and mentor.
And then the next day came and I had to take what I had learned from the loss of that student and apply it to the kids that I was left with. But for the rest of the year I hoped that he would not give up, and I hoped that I would see him again. But in my line of work, we don’t often see the kids that we lose again. And for that reason you cannot imagine what it meant when I saw him walk into the graduation stadium in his gown. (Our school is so small that we combine with adult ed for graduation, which is where he went after his expulsion.) My heart stopped for a second, I was so proud of him.
There are no words really for that feeling. It was like someone gave me back something priceless that I thought had been lost. And for all the hardship of this past year, that one kid reminded me why I do what I do. There are a lot of kids that walked that day that reminded me, that no matter how hard it is, they deserve to have someone fight for them. Even if it is just fighting to help find them a place to do community service;)
Monday, June 14, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
The world is ending and we are all gonna die... get over it already
Why are you people worried about the earth getting knocked off its rotation? There are WAY worse things out there lurking around every corner. Let's stop worrying about the things we can't fix and focus on the things that we as a human race can wipe out with our mistreatment of the environment!
Down with the blob fish...
Check this people! Fear the Blob Fish
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