May 18, 2010
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The Daily News1 Only shooting stars...2 What a great Monday.
3 Hey RACHAEL, helllllllllllllp!!!!
4 Haha!
5 I ain't explainin' that one. The hint, if there is such a thing, is this: who's gettin' married around here?
6 El Directore in me is already planning some shady stuff, lemme tellya.
7 What fun, I tellya.
8 It's like a WHOLE buncha people be watchin'!
9 And our joy gonna be doin' it, doin' it.
10 Oops. Got my eeeeeeside goin' on.
11 That's the fun of having been a teacher who had arugably THE most diversified club on the YB campus. Uh, nah. Excuse you? Drama be about everybahdy, beotches!
12 Yeesh. I gotsta tone it down some.
13 Happens.
14 Sorry. It's the coffeeeeee talkin'! = ) <-----sideways smiley guy.
15 You simply shouldn't try writing at the end of a long day, especially at the end of a long Monday.
16 You come up with the weirdest stuff, I tellya.
17 So how y'all doin'? I think I finally came down from the coffee high.
18 I don't even drink that much coffee.
19 That might explain it then.
20 So it looks like we're down to about seventeen days of school left, six of which are for projects and movies, and three more of which are for finals.
21 It's funny, because I keep thinking that I have tons more to teach, yet the year is winding down like a tired old clock.
22 The weather is a bit deceiving as well, because it keeps things moving along like it's mid-March or something, but really?
23 This school year is nearly over.
24 It's actually been an enjoyable year. I've great classes, and a great school.
25 The only thing that is bothersome is the cutbacks and layoffs. Outrageous stuff in a state that DOES have money.
26 Moving on, Part the First: It's sort of strange how this time of the year I tend to lose track of what's going on in the world. I'm trying like mad to plan classes and to keep up with all the paperwork and stuff.
27 This means I'm staying down at the school 'til six or seven at night each night, just trying to keep organized. Meanwhile, the world keeps turning. I get my news from sound bytes here and there, which is just about as good as the true news anyway, since it's all boushit.
28 Yesterday, for instance, I heard on the radio that some school somewhere fired all 87 of its teachers, with the absolute approval of Obama. WTH? I lost all respect for Obama on that one.
29 The entire "fire 'em all" mentality is SO ridiculously insulting. I'm staying down at my own school for hours on end, and then grading papers, planning lessons, updating my credential, taking classes, and doing everything on Earth to improve as a teacher, and some clown comes along saying that every single teacher is fired?
30 Wake up call, folks. It isn't the teachers. Period. And there is no easy solution to the challenges in education, but most of the people in the profession are pretty professional, and are trying as hard as they can to make things better.
31 So Obama plays the political "blame" card. He also uses scapegoating as a political panacea. Nice to know next time I vote.
32 Dude. Let me set you straight.
33 If loving parents put an emphasis on reading and education, we would have the strongest educational system on the planet. It's about that simple. Yes, we have some lousy teachers, but the vast majority of teachers give their hearts and souls to the profession. For some idiotic superintendent to blindly fire every single teacher is an act of political tyranny, and a slap in the face to people who give all they can to the profession. Anyone remember that moron who gave out 900 pink slips a few years ago? She thought she was infallible. I publicly called her on her boushit. She is no longer with us. I am still with us. And that's the way it goes. So you listening, Obama?
34 For the President of the United States to back that mentality shows that he has a degree of imbecile in him. Firing every single person? What is THAT about? Talk about throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Yeesh. Way to research, kind sir.
35 I'm no saint, and I certainly don't believe I rank up there with the best teachers around, but every single day I give everything I can to the classroom. I didn't always, especially this time of the year, but in the past two years I've stepped up my game, and have even been excited about trying to turn teaching into an art.
36 I tried to imagine what it must have been like for similar teachers giving all they have, only to have some bombastic moron suddenly pink-slip every single teacher, to give a "wake-up call". Maybe they should think about tripling the taxes on the parents whose kids fail because of their inability to show their children the importance of intelligence and learning.
37 Okay, okay, so that's a little harsh. But the point is the issues in education are much more complex than all of that, and making an entire staff of teachers the scapegoats shows ignorance beyond anything I've ever seen, and our President BACKED the decision. Obama, bad, bad, bad, kind sir. One of the stupidest things you've done, and I've had your back this entire time. But you ain't getting away with what you did, sir, even if it is popular these days to dump on teachers. I'm not going to stand there and listen to that, and neither should any other teachers. We jump through hoops for people, and our President brushes those efforts off in such a callous and idiotic fashion? Shame on you, Barry O!
38 Well, I suppose I heard all of it in a sound byte, but really, parents need to put education WAY up there in their priorities. Many of my current students are fortunate enough to have parents who do, and guess what? They are succeeding. It has little to do with how well I teach, or even how poorly. They succeed because their parents care. THAT'S the key to all of it. Period. I'll go toe-to-toe with you on that.
39 Okay. I'll get off my soapbox. Whew.
40 It's Tuesday of a good week.
41 I think I'll catch some much-needed sleep.
42 Read to a child today. Let them see the joy in reading.
43 Baby steps. I'm calming down. Word of honor; I'm calm now.
44 I love you all, everything.
45 Have an AWESOME Tuesday, and GO SHARKS!!!!
46 Peace.
~H~
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