Henry Ford
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In the unlikely event that you're actually going to do this, find some reinforcement tools. Not just punishment tools.
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Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
Agreed. Open to any and all suggestions. If the FFA can play nice(Not directed at you henry) I will be happy to post some photos of my class later on. The school job is not schtick. I'm a little concerned about the pee test, I put it down a couple weeks ago but it can take up to 30 days to leave your system. Gulping a lot of cranberry juice between long walks and a lot of water for now. Principal asked if I could start next Tuesday and then go for my prints and screening…I woulda thought prior to start date and hoping they could deal with a temp for a week but like she said "They're in a bind"
Sarnoff
Footballguy
No he's not.
Those kids would destroy anyone who actually wants to help kids. They're the type that would take a second-year Education co-ed and have her switching her major to Art History by lunch. They'd break any person who went in there trying to give them any boost in life.
That's not MOP. MOP is going to walk in there and know, from the beginning, he doesn't care. He's looking to punch a clock and pick up a check and go home. He knows he's a babysitter and he has no illusions about improving their lives or being their hero or anything. He knows he can do the absolute minimum and skate by with it.
They're not going to eat him alive. He'll give a solid effort for a few hours, maybe even a full day or two, but check the class a week later and he'll be at the front of it, sitting at his desk reading a magazine. They'll never get the better of him because he's not going to give them more than zero.
this worked out pretty well in School Of Rock.
Leeroy Jenkins
Footballguy
I'm surprised there's no permanent sub they can hire for this. You're basically what they call in PA, a para-professional. Here, they are pretty much relegated to study halls. I guess because this is a charter school, they have different requirements (none) for their classrooms.
Henry Ford
Footballguy
http://www.floridastudentfinancialaid.org/SSFAD/bf/
The Florida Bright Futures Scholarship. I don't live in Florida, but my understanding is that if you meet the requirements, you get the award. And it covers much of the tuition/fee cost to go to college in Florida. Somebody dropped a future, right in front of them. All they have to do is pick it up. Show them throughout the year how they are progressing toward that goal, what they are doing to get closer. Spend extra time explaining things, pushing them, and teach World History through the lens of the social and educational opportunities available in the world. What was the opportunity for a Roman Citizen, versus a random subject in a conquered country during the apex of the Holy Roman Empire? What is the first, best, and most effective way to subjugate an entire people - to remove educational opportunities and ply them with drugs/alcohol. It's a real opportunity.
But then you'd have to stop treating it as a business.
Tom Skerritt
Footballguy
The principal's first words to me "Look, we're in a little bit of a bind here"…and again a couple minutes later "I'm in a bind here"…few minutes later I get the news about the naughty 19 which will now be the N19 for short. I also found out this was not the 1st teacher in this position this year, at least the 2nd so it sounds like the N19 are doing a good job of winning the tug-o-war but I have different ideas. I'm smart enough to find the smartest teachers in that school who know what their doing and surround myself with them. I do this everywhere I go, find what's working and make it my own.It just baffles me that someone with no teaching experience or educational background can just waltz into a job teaching middle school or high school kids
KCitons
Footballguy
fantasycurse42
Footballguy Jr.
http://betterbracketmaker.com/#!/d3873ad1dbf25
Got the bracket ready... This will be a solid tourney... Not just based on looks, but also grading on the teachers effort.
ETA, piece of #### link... just copy and paste.
Got the bracket ready... This will be a solid tourney... Not just based on looks, but also grading on the teachers effort.
ETA, piece of #### link... just copy and paste.
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KCitons
Footballguy
fantasycurse42
Footballguy Jr.
Gandalf the Grey
Footballguy
I don't think you're allowed to post photos without consent. Maybe you already know this, or maybe I'm wrong, but I would think twice about that.
KCitons
Footballguy
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
Fortunately it's not an English class and I mentioned to the principal that would not be a great class for me to teach. She laughed and said yeah right, I said no really, ask Tom Skerritt. She said the Top Gun instructor? I said no, the grammar instructor on a free message board.The principal's first words to me "Look, we're in a little bit of a bind here"…and again a couple minutes later "I'm in a bind here"…few minutes later I get the news about the naughty 19 which will now be the N19 for short. I also found out this was not the 1st teacher in this position this year, at least the 2nd so it sounds like the N19 are doing a good job of winning the tug-o-war but I have different ideas. I'm smart enough to find the smartest teachers in that school who know what their doing and surround myself with them. I do this everywhere I go, find what's working and make it my own.It just baffles me that someone with no teaching experience or educational background can just waltz into a job teaching middle school or high school kids
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
That is exactly what I would be. I get slightly more money as a substitute because of the degree. I thought some teachers break in by being substitutes and doing well at it and then the schools they did well at would try to hire them on. I always that's sort of how it worked for those not coming straight out of college with education degrees.
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
You're not going anywhere, someone had to keep this train moving while I am teaching all the future leaders of the World. I doubt there will be much time to post while I am teaching during the day.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
MOP, can you just fast forward to the next fishing trip? This one has become an avoid.
Maybe just give us your write up of how the AP who's making goggly eyes at you comes on to you, you coyly decline, you both go to happy hour some time later, get drunk, have your tryst, you then get kicked out of the job and have to hide the whole sordid affair from your wife. Maybe sprinkle in a few inappropriate encounters with some of your female class members and you're done. I'm sure you have all this written up already, just post it and move on to bigger better things.
Maybe just give us your write up of how the AP who's making goggly eyes at you comes on to you, you coyly decline, you both go to happy hour some time later, get drunk, have your tryst, you then get kicked out of the job and have to hide the whole sordid affair from your wife. Maybe sprinkle in a few inappropriate encounters with some of your female class members and you're done. I'm sure you have all this written up already, just post it and move on to bigger better things.
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Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
Gr00vus
Footballguy
In truth I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt. You teaching junior high is just such an obviously, fantastically horrible notion, I can't bring myself to believe this is anything but fishing.
So let's just fast forward to MOP joins the circus, MOP - soldier of fortune, MOP the weather girl, etc.
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Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
I'm many things and wear the badges proudly but liar is not usually one of them. Of course I sprinkle in a little hot sauce but the corp of the texts are never fishing expeditions. I don't need to do that, reality in my life writes itself, not much need to make things up.
Sarnoff
Footballguy
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
Enough teaching for the moment.
Rant:
We just had the septic tank pumped last year about this time when we bought our house. We figured it was because the previous owners had let the place go somewhat, might not have been on their priority list. I did tell my wife though that this house being built in the 40s, older plumbing, probably not a good idea to flush a lot of paper so let's just bag it in the plastics from the grocery store and I'll just throw it in the garbage can outside about every day or two. Within reason of course. Also implored her for a courtesy flush at least to empty the toilet before the paper would hit it, figured that would make it all go down easier as she isn't that keen on tossing it in the trash. She also seems to have to use 1/2 roll per wipe which...
She stops up the toilet one night and I about had a conniption fit trying to unplug the GD thing and then low an behold the plumbing is backing up, tub not draining after light showers, my sink is not draining while I am trying to shave, bathroom trips are taking on a Lewis and Clark expedition that I don't think I should be subjected to. Now we gotta call out a septic tank person again, easily $300-$500. I know they are going to mention a new drainage area. Humans cannot be trusted. I laid out specifics so we don't have this issue.
Rant:
We just had the septic tank pumped last year about this time when we bought our house. We figured it was because the previous owners had let the place go somewhat, might not have been on their priority list. I did tell my wife though that this house being built in the 40s, older plumbing, probably not a good idea to flush a lot of paper so let's just bag it in the plastics from the grocery store and I'll just throw it in the garbage can outside about every day or two. Within reason of course. Also implored her for a courtesy flush at least to empty the toilet before the paper would hit it, figured that would make it all go down easier as she isn't that keen on tossing it in the trash. She also seems to have to use 1/2 roll per wipe which...
She stops up the toilet one night and I about had a conniption fit trying to unplug the GD thing and then low an behold the plumbing is backing up, tub not draining after light showers, my sink is not draining while I am trying to shave, bathroom trips are taking on a Lewis and Clark expedition that I don't think I should be subjected to. Now we gotta call out a septic tank person again, easily $300-$500. I know they are going to mention a new drainage area. Humans cannot be trusted. I laid out specifics so we don't have this issue.
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
Tom Skerritt
Footballguy
Yeah, why would you courtesy flush in a septic system? The goal should be to reduce usage.
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
The orange tree in the corner of the yard is starting to look like a good spot for some special fertilizer.
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
xulf
Footballguy
Gr00vus
Footballguy
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
MOP>you need to post less and have more people interact independent of your life, otherwise this thread will die.
phrozen
Footballguy
Bobby goes Plop, Plop, Flush, wipe, wipe, Flush in a 1.6 gallon per flush toilet. Sally goes Plop, Plop, wipe wipe, Flush in a 1.3 gallon per flush toilet. How much more water does Bobby use if he averages 2 poops a day and Sue averages 1.
Henry Ford
Footballguy
What. The. ####.Enough teaching for the moment.
Rant:
We just had the septic tank pumped last year about this time when we bought our house. We figured it was because the previous owners had let the place go somewhat, might not have been on their priority list. I did tell my wife though that this house being built in the 40s, older plumbing, probably not a good idea to flush a lot of paper so let's just bag it in the plastics from the grocery store and I'll just throw it in the garbage can outside about every day or two. Within reason of course. Also implored her for a courtesy flush at least to empty the toilet before the paper would hit it, figured that would make it all go down easier as she isn't that keen on tossing it in the trash. She also seems to have to use 1/2 roll per wipe which...
She stops up the toilet one night and I about had a conniption fit trying to unplug the GD thing and then low an behold the plumbing is backing up, tub not draining after light showers, my sink is not draining while I am trying to shave, bathroom trips are taking on a Lewis and Clark expedition that I don't think I should be subjected to. Now we gotta call out a septic tank person again, easily $300-$500. I know they are going to mention a new drainage area. Humans cannot be trusted. I laid out specifics so we don't have this issue.
Henry Ford
Footballguy
Gr00vus
Footballguy
moleculo
Footballguy
Did you not notice the thread topic change? This is no longer MOPTAN, This is now the MOP rant thread. I think we can all agree rants can be entertaining on the I own.
Leeroy Jenkins
Footballguy
So, is this charter school like an alternative school for kids who had issues in public school?
Mr. Pickles
Footballguy
You'd better work on GM then because he's absolutely convinced you make everything up. Like, all of it.
Dr. Gobbler
Footballguy
Let's not forget that we're talking about Florida here, MoP is probably smarter than 90% of the pool in which they can fish from. He's a regular Magnum Cum Loud in comparison.
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
Thanks Dr. G
Did you pay your gambling debt to Tim? We don't want any trouble in here
Gr00vus
Footballguy
rustycolts
Footballguy
77% of the folks living in Florida are originally from somewhere else.Other states exporting theirne'er do wells down here.
Oink Oink the Pig
Footballguy
I want you to call me MOP and I'm going to call you by your first names because frankly I would have a pretty tough time with some of your last names.Update: Interviewed with the principal, went vey well. She said she was in a bind and she needed someone who could start as early as next Tuesday, guess there is some holiday on Monday. She went to say she would make a decision by the end of the day today or tomorrow but she also started handing me the text books I would be teaching, the AP showed up again at the end of the interview.
The principal was a nice lady but means business, that was obvious. She definitely is on a different level than almost anyone else I met, meaning she has earned that principal position. She is about my age but looked older I have to say. She is working on her PhD and she told me she is pretty easy to get along with and most of her teachers want to stay. I hate to say it but she was trying to sell me on the job rather than me sell her, I wasn't expecting that. She did start to tell me about these nineteen 9th graders they have in a middle school that is supposed to be K-8. The naughty 19 as I am gonna call them are not very driven. Their parents are mostly from other countries and don't emphasize that they should be going to college…I will have to rectify that situation immediately.
The other classes and students are 7th/8th grade math and social sciences. The math book looked pretty easy, the other text books have a lot of pictures and the words are a little bigger than the college text books I am used to. It's good, it doesn't look all that difficult. I don't believe the material will be the issue, it's that classroom management. I plan on having a daily routine for the social studies classes, that routine is going to eliminate homework most nights. There will be no way around math but I want to try and limit it to about 30 minutes tops for homework, classes are almost 2 hours a pice but only twice a week and then we see all the students form all the classes on Friday. They even revers the times so that early classes on Monday will be the afternoon group on Wed…seems complicated for the kids but whatever.
80% of the students' parents don't speak a lot of English-And I asked about teacher parent conferences, principal said most of her staff are bilingual and that its not problem for them to sit in and help communicate. The students all speak English and that is gong to be the only language we speak in my class, that's gonna be on my expectations list.
If their parents work at one of the stores you're boycotting, that would enhance the story.
Alright, lets go!
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Doctor Detroit
Please remove your headgear
Limp Ditka
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