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Not liking his posts makes you look like Brozo the Clown! And you can take that to the bank, Dan Marinbro!
Bro my god, it's simple math, less MOP and more SWC = a better FFA.
I don't care George Brostanza!
Muldoon: They show extreme intelligence, even problem-solving intelligence. Especially the big one. We bred eight originally, but when she came in she took over the pride and killed all but two of the others. That one... when she looks at you, you can see she's working things out. That's why we have to feed them like this. She had them all attacking the fences when the feeders came.Ministry of Pain said:
Might be in for this one
I did not appreciate the awesomeness of SWC at first, now I have warmed up to the Brohan
A lot of schools down south are very desperate. They don't pay well, have tough groups of kids (lots of low income and ESL). Nobody wants to work there. There aren't enough teachers being produced in the area and the good ones want to work in wealthier districts. When I graduated from Eastern Michigan College of Ed, we had a job fair. There were dozens of schools from Florida, Georgia, Carolinas, etc. that were recruiting and some that were able to offer jobs on the spot. Some offered a furnished apartment, a car, etc. I had a friend take one of those deals (free place, car) in Hawaii. She was miserable. The school was a nightmare, all islanders that had no interest in being taught by white people, hostile parents, kids would disappear for weeks at a time. The apartment was a dive, but the car was ok. She did not renew her contract.
On Tuesday though I want to set some ground rules. We're gonna go with fist bumps, hi-5s will work, maybe a hug on the last day of the year. I'm not comfortable with it in the beginning, don't want to send the wrong message.
Women often have a knack for being right about that kind of thing, but still, family is family. I can see where that would be a soft spot for you. I say proceed with extremely cautious optimism. Maybe he's growing up and realizing his past mistakes.
Our parents both passed from cancer and it was really horrific towards the end. He was my father's caretaker the last few weeks he was alive. I was talking with my father everyday from the time he was diagnosed over a long and arduous 5 year journey and then my brother was away that whole time, he pops up towards the end and I was truly grateful he did. But those final 2-3 weeks, my brother thinks he knew my father better than anyone and of course he wasn't there for many years, so it's just a hard pill to swallow and he didn't appreciate the way I handled my father passing. And it goes a lot deeper but that's good enough for in here today.
Jets is by far one of my favorites. Never tried a round pizza because the deep dish is so good. You should get the all meat pizza sometime. It is ridiculously good, though you should only have it once a year due to the grease intake. I always get an order of their jets bread which is really awesome alsoMinistry of Pain said:
Since you've acknowledged you have a temper, it's good to see you're trying to do this positively. Kids need boundaries and this appears to be a first step.Ministry of Pain said:
Do not touch the children MOP. My wife works in school administration, once a year she seems to have to deal with issues/allegations around inappropriate touching by male staff with female students - even though it was innocuous on the part of the staff, particularly hugs. It can get nasty.Ministry of Pain said:
I needed 'em.
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tl;dr Anyway, can you please PM me and let me know when SWC posts in here again? Otherwise, I see no reason to check in this thread. TIA.Here is how the first day went. We have a home room from 8:45-8:55 roughly, kids are coming in from all over, 1st class starts around 9 AM. The classes M-Th are almost 2 hours a clip which I find to be excruciatingly long for 7th and 8th graders. Heck, I need a break at some point just to come up for air.
I did not allow any students to come into my classroom at 8:30 like they tend to do. These 8th graders I had lined up outside my classroom even as other students from other grades were walking by. They looked shocked. I had them line up on both sides of the hall with a shoulder touching the wall, very thin hall to boot so I've got 44 kids lined up. I do have a co-teacher for this group, in fact she teaches English Lit and that was the agenda today. I get the same 44 for my math class tomorrow-(Frackin Geometry). OK so I chilled them out with some small talk about their weekend and then I sort of laid it out how I want them to enter the class ready to learn and in an orderly fashion. These 44 children marched into the class and sat downthe teacher who watched the one before me have a nervous breakdown, I thought her jaw was gonna hit the floor.
I went over my little 4 rules and the consequences and immediately handed out a consequence(verbal warning) to the 1st kid that broke the rule. It turned out to be 1 of the 2 appointees in the class who re supposed to be the model citizens, that got their attention real quick. The English Lit teacher took over at 9 AM, they did Tell Tale by Poe and I pretty much can work on my lesson plans or if I am needed step in and handle some of the kids who might be acting up. We did have to give a couple timeouts. I did not raise my voice but went outside and had a very logical conversation and just let them know we were not gonna have these issues in class anymore.
I kept driving the point home all day that I am there to protect every student's right to learn. If you inhibit that process in any way than I have to correct that. It's not personal, I'm not mad, it's your choice how you want to behave but understand you won't stop this classroom from learning or me from teaching.
That 1st class overall was pretty good.
Class #2 is in what is called the loft above the cafeteria. They cram 25 kids into a broom closet and expect me to teach US History by myself. I played it cool but we have some real issues in there. It went OK but I fear the 9th graders in the same room tomorrow, THE N19.
Class #3 was the intensive math lab for 7th grade. None of the kids are bad and many of them take the class because they don't like the art teacher or any of the other electives they could sign up for so I actually have a few math nerds in there. Again a simple lining up outside as they were coming in from lunch, a couple verbal warnings and overall that class was a breeze compared to the 8th grade US History class.
It bugs me because I know I am most qualified for the history classes and unfortunately those are gonna be my toughest because of the cramped space, age of the kids, its just a mess. These kids have done all of 3 chapters out of their US History books and have not even gotten to George Washington being elected, just sad. That class had 1 kid that really made a horrible impression on me. I am able to deal with the talkers and those that have the ants in the pants syndrome but this turdmonster decided to play the Spanish card and tell me he can't really speak English which was a lie because he was talking to others. I gave him a verbal, a timeout, even went outside with him for a couple minutes and got him to agree to work with me and then he just started talking again in class and being disruptive. So that's gonna be a challenge but I think I can get him in line eventually, might need a phone call home.
My beef is with the administration who opted to give me no lesson plans, no information where things were left off, very poor organization. I had to beg one of the math teachers to help me and he says "This is my stuff that I have collected over the last 10 years and blah blah blah"I said to him "Well let's keep it locked up in the trunk so none of the students can benefit from it." Took him all of 10 seconds to finally forward me everything I need. I understand he probably didn't have anyone help him at first but that's no way to treat someone coming in cold with little to no teaching experience, you're only hurting the kids. He teaches 7th and 9th grade math so we are supposed to be on the same team. I also would have liked the principal to visit the classrooms and just sort of give me a positive reinforcement to the kids and let them know we are serious about them learning.
Overall though I loved it and I can see it is gonna be a lot of work. Did stop off for 2 drafts on the way home
