Stolen cell phones

Stolen i-Pods.

Selling stolen goods after first period.

Sometimes it's overwhelming.

Don't quit your day job...

Does this still work?

Since I have no audience, it seems pointless to post...yet I'm compelled. Different teachers need to be paired with different students. Put more stuff online. Let the world in on the world of pedagogy.

He gave me a dirty look

I asked an immature kid to leave the room because he was giving me dirty looks.

The rest of the class was near hysterical from laughter.

We tried to do zen stories. I think it got through to a few of them. Ahhh, I'm such a teacher. :)

I don't know if I'm good or not...but I am one. I get it done.

Now I'm watching MTV2 and it's surprisingly awful.

Who won the fight?

The counselor pleaded for order from the class. He demanded to know why his "role model" would ask such a question. In a presentation about the dangers of fighting, the only thing that counted was who won.

I'll renounce my moral indignation after I can accept it as a metaphor for mankind.

I think I know my world-view now. It's all ironic.

Alternative certification

I'm pleasantly surprised by how much I've learned at the alternative certification meetings.

Tonight's class about ESE students was awe inspiring.

Wishing I wrote more

I wish I could teach a class based on ALDAILY.COM. I am so sick of this "Teach, RE-Teach, Answer questions, Answer for a test and Forget." I am so sick of this educational system at times.

Just read Aldaily.com. That's all.

The chaos of sixth period 2003

Time passes. I'm facing 2006 instead of 2003. The students I had as freshmen will be facing college and adulthood and I'll be a fourth year teacher, assuming I can pass my certification requirements.

What they face will be largely the work of their surroundings and genetics. I don't know how much of a role I played in their future.

But I would love to look back on my first few years as a teacher in this blog.

On the first day of school a girl asked if she could use my seat. I was so bewildered. I had no sense of authority.

Now I've developed that...to a certain extent. But I'm still working on it.

Well this post was pointless.

Allowing them to talk

A new student from Brooklyn came into class today and the guys went wild. Testosterone was pumping.

I couldn't get them to shut up. But it's funny.

I can't get the type of intellectually stimulating discussions going like in my other regular classes. I've had some real characters. I shouldn't say to them, "Why can't you be more like the others?"

Damn...if I had some readers I would be more compelled to write on here...Then again if I wrote on here I might have some more readers.

I was walking into my school and a few of the girls saw me with a dying branch of tabebua. I told them I was going to give it to my girlfriend and we had a pretty funny conversation about it.
TTD:
I gotta get the chess club in order!

Tests of Fabled Archimedes Death Ray Fail - Yahoo! News

Tests of Fabled Archimedes Death Ray Fail - Yahoo! News

Email has entangled me

A student is suffering and email has brought that suffering a little closer to home. Perhaps I made an inappropriate comment. I hope everything is okay.

I don't write enough on here but that's okay :)

No, writing every day isn't easy. But I worry about the overflow of information if blogging were even easier. Every second of every day isn't worth recording. Sometimes the banality is treasured better in our memories than in hard drives. Sometimes visions and thoughts are best fleeting. We don't get a second life to go back and watch it all again. Would we want to?

Common-place: Talk of the Past

Common-place: Talk of the Past

I need my NYTimes!

I couldn't take it! I had to sign up for the NYTimes editorial special. I'm addicted to their liberal pronouncements!

Teacher work day

Teachers should focus on efficiency. Hitting your head against a wall doesn't make you a better teacher.

Writing for yourself

I've forgotten the importance of writing for yourself.

So from now on, I'm putting my thoughts on the web for myself. Audience be damned.

Starting this business has been quite exciting...More to follow.

Can't let go of youth...but you'll let go of life

Youth has promise and beauty. And it's sad to see doors closing in your face. But life is full of so many precluded possibilities as Hobbes (Calvin's friend) once explained.

Give me 10 more years and I'll take up painting...I think Voltaire said that. I'll probably find myself with similar sentiments. But we shall see.

Our end is coming. All these storms and wars and planes dropping and AIDs remind us that. "Us" being myself and you the ready. It's just the end of our own lives. There's really nothing special about people as a group.

Yet as I write that it seems false. There IS something unique about us and it would be a shame if our experiment ended. Maybe I'll die and you'll die but it would be a shame if we all died.

At least that's my opinion right now. We shall see.

Don't let grades define you

-Human gangs seem to fight for the same reasons animal gangs do. Bio-psych has lots of hidden answers for us...
-I wish I was part of the scientific community at times. But am I any good at it?
-I'm trying somewhat with my students but I can't say I'm trying my "hardest".
-Bush is a failure of a whole new level.
-Blogs are a great way to end the day.
-Don't let your grades define who you are.

PDIDDY HAS NO TALENT

Katrina was a distraction for Miami...seemingly deadly for NO.

Life of Pi was a good book.

Walker moves you

"All we can do is give the kids the tools to make the right decisions and support them when they do!"

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Walker Texas Ranger when he saved Chesholm Middle School from the vatos

Classes are going great!!

I haven't been much of a blogger...at least blogging that doesn't pay. But classes are going great and I'm happy as anything.