1monster
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Thu Feb-14-08 08:00 PM
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It's my birthday... I'm 25 (okay, so I'm a little numbers dyslexic...) Anyway, the kids |
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were being really loud and difficult in 4/5 block today, so I asked the, as a special birthday present, to give me a break and keep it quiet.
"How old are you?" asked one student, I gave him the answer above.
"No!" he said. You can't be! Maybe forty. But I think you look like you're in your thirties.
"Thanks, Jon, I'd give you an A for that, if I could, but I can't."
"No, no! I really mean it! You don't look 52!"
So I didn't get the birthday prezzie I asked for (Those kids have one setting and that is EXTRA EXTRA LOUD.
But the compliment was a nice consolation prize. :D
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Thu Feb-14-08 08:07 PM
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Hope you're having a good day! :bounce:
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1monster
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Thu Feb-14-08 08:10 PM
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3. Thank you. I got a bottle of Kahlua, which will probably last me past my next birthday... |
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:D Having a nice evening.
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Thu Feb-14-08 08:09 PM
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2. Happy Birthday to you! |
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I'll try to keep it down, okay?
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Thu Feb-14-08 08:12 PM
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4. Since were are not in a small concrete block room with cement floors and hard desks |
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for the sound to bounce off and echo back in a continuous loop, you can be as noisy as you like.
School rooms are very utilitarian these days. Very little sound absorbing materials are used.
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Thu Feb-14-08 08:15 PM
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5. I don't know how you do it.... |
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But thanks a lot. To me teachng is the most noble of professions and it really takes someone special to even attempt it. thanks a lot.
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Thu Feb-14-08 08:28 PM
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6. I'm a substitute teacher and that is both easier and harder than being a |
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contract teacher. I love it. I love teaching different subjects on a daily/weekly basis, and I also love the long term subbing jobs (three weeks, five weeks, seven weeks, three months, etc.)
I have relearned so much that I'd forgotten and learned new stuff too.
There are days when I wonder if I'm totally insane, but there there are other days.
One of the best days was when my son came home and told me that a student who was really intelligent, but very unhappy with her home life and always getting into serious trouble was now doing fine and on the straight and narrow.
I tried, whenever I was able, to show her a future where she would be in control of her life if she stopped doing the stupid (and prosecutable stuff).
She told my son that I had helped her a lot and she owed it, in part, to me that she had turned her life around.
If I can make a difference for the better to just a few of the students, then even the worst days are worth it.
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Thu Feb-14-08 08:55 PM
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9. Sweet. That must be so rewarding... |
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Thu Feb-14-08 08:39 PM
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:)
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smart kids... ;)
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Thu Feb-14-08 08:47 PM
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