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sweetsubsarahh said:
Yes.

Most times, knowing that you can make that sort of a difference as a teacher can counteract all the negativity - the lack of pay, the idiot parents, the uncaring administrators and uninformed public, the poorly funded programs -

Most times.

:rose:
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Do NOT get me started on the uninformed public. The uninformed public pisses me off as far as what they think about teachers. :mad:
 
Chantilyvamp said:
It helps when all the teachers on here are so yummy;)

I have a hell of a lot to thank a few of my teachers for. They were the best in the entire world!:cathappy:
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This teacher is so senior that he doesn't feel underpaid at all, but I'm approaching retirement. The current set of stupid hoops and hurdles that new teachers have to go through is enough to drive any thinking young person away from the calling (not profession, calling) and into (shudder) law school. No Child Left Behind is essentially a lowest-common-denominator-ization of American education. Set the bar low enough and everyone can jump over it or set it so high that 50% never graduate. Whatever happened to a broad range of options?
 
Katyusha said:
Do NOT get me started on the uninformed public. The uninformed public pisses me off as far as what they think about teachers. :mad:
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Let me share something that just happened today.

I teach summer school for elementary and middle school age kids. This is district-wide and the students are gathered at several different locations for classes. They're young, they don't drive yet.

In other words, they need rides to get home after class.

The first few days were so bad with kids not being picked up on time (despite using office phones to call for rides, using my phone to call) that I finally got the number of security for the district. I told every single late parent that in the future I'd call security to pick up their kids since I refused stay so long after class was out. They could go to the security office and get their children, I said.

Strangely enough, that seemed to take care of the issue (for the most part). Kids magically found rides, some realized they could walk home because they really did live close enough and parents suddenly found themselves able to pick up their children after all.

Except today. Today after more than 30 minutes past class I asked this young man (4th grade) if he had a ride. Yes he did, he told me, but she was getting her hair done and she'd told him to wait here for her. Wait? By himself?

I had him call her, I spoke with her. She was nowhere near getting done. She told me ten minutes, I heard her laughing as I handed her son back the phone. I told the son I was calling security and went to my car to snag my phone. He called his mom again.

When I next looked up at him, he was leaving. Turns out his mom told him to walk to a nearby store and hang out there until she was done. Okay. Not what I would do my own child, but that is certainly her call, I guess. No longer my responsibility.

I left a few minutes later, and that's when the sky opened up - serious rain - big fat raindrops.

I go a different direction than this child but I know he must have arrived at the store completely drenched - and then to wait - how long? for his mother?

Although I'm certain her hair was gorgeous when she arrived.

I really hate some people.

:mad:
 
sweetsubsarahh said:
Let me share something that just happened today.

I teach summer school for elementary and middle school age kids. This is district-wide and the students are gathered at several different locations for classes. They're young, they don't drive yet.

In other words, they need rides to get home after class.

The first few days were so bad with kids not being picked up on time (despite using office phones to call for rides, using my phone to call) that I finally got the number of security for the district. I told every single late parent that in the future I'd call security to pick up their kids since I refused stay so long after class was out. They could go to the security office and get their children, I said.

Strangely enough, that seemed to take care of the issue (for the most part). Kids magically found rides, some realized they could walk home because they really did live close enough and parents suddenly found themselves able to pick up their children after all.

Except today. Today after more than 30 minutes past class I asked this young man (4th grade) if he had a ride. Yes he did, he told me, but she was getting her hair done and she'd told him to wait here for her. Wait? By himself?

I had him call her, I spoke with her. She was nowhere near getting done. She told me ten minutes, I heard her laughing as I handed her son back the phone. I told the son I was calling security and went to my car to snag my phone. He called his mom again.

When I next looked up at him, he was leaving. Turns out his mom told him to walk to a nearby store and hang out there until she was done. Okay. Not what I would do my own child, but that is certainly her call, I guess. No longer my responsibility.

I left a few minutes later, and that's when the sky opened up - serious rain - big fat raindrops.

I go a different direction than this child but I know he must have arrived at the store completely drenched - and then to wait - how long? for his mother?

Although I'm certain her hair was gorgeous when she arrived.

I really hate some people.

:mad:
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If you want to know what is wrong with some children, just look where they came from! We use the phrase "Fruit doesn't fall far from a tree."
 
So I haven't been on much mostly because my eyes are being tricksy with me still... but also because I am busy with my kids. I'm trying to spend as much time as possible with them this summer, knowing that although it won't make the separation easier it will reap major benefits for all of us in so very many ways...

...and my son is playing in a Little League All-Star Tournament, a wonderful thing in many ways. The tournament is single elimination (he is in a second-level tournament. Very few 10 year olds make the All Star Teams that compete in double elimination to go to Williamsport) and yesterday his team won 9-3 to qualify for the Championship Game on Friday.

I'm very proud of how he has played. The coach is using him as the team's stopper, saving him as a pitcher for a desperate situation and two games in a row he has come in to situations with runners on second and third and less than two outs and slammed the door. Both times his team has responded with big offensive innings, putting the game away after his first inning.

But why I'm posting this is because of the coaching staff on his team. According to the "official" Little League stats, only twelve percent of kids ever get the chance to play for a Championship like this. And those numbers are very similar for coaches.

As such, there is a great temptation for Coaches to lose sight of the mission of fairness and teaching. To fall back to "win at all cost" thinking, yelling at the kids and playing favorites, etc.

Although I am not going to use their names due to the nature of our forum, I want to speak out about how proud I am of my son's All Star coaches. They have been awesome. Yesterday, talking with the parents while his assistants were down the line talking to the kids, the manager almost lost it. Tears were an edge away. It's his first chance to win a title, as a child or adult. And his son has been a valuable part of the team. The emotion is thick and heavy.

But he remains focused on the kids, not on his own ambitions. I admire it and want to celebrate it. In a world where kids are too often sent to stores in the rain, the three men coaching this team and giving their time deserve to be celebrated even more.

And, with modesty about my own part, I'll add several parents to that list, who have helped out with batting cage trips, throwing batting practice, bringing snacks and gatorade, hosting pool parties or driving to pick up kids whose parents work schedule gets in the way.

It's nice to see the good side of people. *grin*
 
voluptuary_manque said:
This teacher is so senior that he doesn't feel underpaid at all, but I'm approaching retirement. The current set of stupid hoops and hurdles that new teachers have to go through is enough to drive any thinking young person away from the calling (not profession, calling) and into (shudder) law school. No Child Left Behind is essentially a lowest-common-denominator-ization of American education. Set the bar low enough and everyone can jump over it or set it so high that 50% never graduate. Whatever happened to a broad range of options?
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Do NOT get me started on No Child Left Behind. That stupid mandate pisses me off too. :mad:
 
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sweetsubsarahh said:
I go a different direction than this child but I know he must have arrived at the store completely drenched - and then to wait - how long? for his mother?

Although I'm certain her hair was gorgeous when she arrived.

I really hate some people.

:mad:
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:eek:

Okay I'm speechless, except to say, "WHAT THE FUCK?!?!" :mad:
 
bel ~ :kiss::rose::heart:

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bwahahaha, I don't think I'm ever gonna stop laughing.
 
Katyusha said:
Do NOT get me started on No Child Left Behind. That stupid mandate pisses me off too. :mad:
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:rose:


One year with a most incredibly, pathologically, insane principal really soured me on working in schools. Maybe my calling wasn't that strong if he could do that to me.
 
Multiple blurts warning.

Blurts:

I'm getting a tattoo on my side next Monday. It's a bird, an eagle, to be specific, and it's gonna hurt since I'm getting it so close to the ribs. But I'm damned excited.

I love wild flowers.

The little squares of grass on the pavements, what do you call them? :confused: Anyway, they're invaded by mushrooms, of all kinds! We've been getting a lot of rain the past couple weeks.

I'm going house-hunting again.

I'm gonna have to pack and move. Again. :eek:

I'm dead tired and I could pass out for 15 hours straight.

I bought Curious Wine online yesterday and it should be shipped to me early next week.

I've missed posting.
 
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