November 5, 2011
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The Daily News1 I guess I've said this a number of times this year, but truly?
2 No news is definitely good news.
3 Hmmm.
4 The fonts aren't cooperating.
5 I never got to the DN last night.
6 Somebody at her job is bullying my daughter Coley, and it is ridiculous.
7 They're trying to cut her at the knees because evidently she cares about her students, at least that's my read.
8 She doesn't want to be what I call a "bot" teacher.
9 I have watched her research teaching methods, create a website for parents, completely design her room so that she has wonderful centers for her children, laugh with them, discipline them, and cry about them.
10 She is a tremendously incredible teacher. I have been in awe since we went to her room to set up in August.
11 Last year her parents gave her a flower bed with the kids' handprints on it. I posted that in the DN.
12 Whenever we get together, we have coffee and talk shop.
13 Yesterday she was pulled aside by a colleague, who told her that nobody likes her.
14 THAT'S pretty professional.
15 A bunch of people don't like me.
16 I couldn't care less.
17 And the reason I couldn't care less is that I put my students first at school. Meetings and all the rest, while helpful, often overlook the main ingredient of a good teacher: passion for the job.
18 That's how Nicole is. All she does is think school, and often we plan and discuss about students.
19 Even when we go to Tahoe, she tells wonderful stories about her students.
20 Needless to say I was livid with that lady. What she said would have been unprofessional to a third-grader.
21 And I thought, "Slander and jealousy are not news. They're olds."
22 Anyway, this one is short, and it is a salute to one of the best teachers I've ever met.
23 It's just...really lady? You say something THAT stupid to a probationary teacher?
24 Not even news. It's completely unkind and ridiculous.
25 Stand tall Nicoley. There will always be insecure people trying to take down the ones who work harder. They're old news. I've met many and outlasted them all. So no news there.
26 Gottago.
27 Peace.
~H~
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