Thursday was an interesting day. I subbed for the gifted teacher at a middle school. Fir some reason this teacher has only five classes instead of the usual six. Two each of 7th and 8th grades, one 6th grade. Now what happens when the reason for the teacher’s absence is because she took the 8th […]
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This has been an early week for me. I know a friend of mine over here always gets up at 5 or 5:30, and once upon a time I had a job where I had to do that, but these days I am just not used to it and exhaustion leaves its mark on me
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And mostly due to my laziness I am subbing once again, and that is good news for this blog. I have been on hiatus from this for too long. I still intend to have some posts of my life outside of teaching, but for a while I have just been turned off from writing during
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Okay, now that I’m back I will finish up the rest of yesterday. I mentioned that they had gone through one time practicing picking up diplomas (at least eight Patels by the way 😛 ). Once finished, they all had to stand up one last time (“and now presenting the class of 2008”) and then
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What a snooze… No, not me last night which was anything but- I think I may have gotten about five hours of sleep if I’m lucky. I’m referring of course to the assemblies that happen sometimes at schools. Especially those that totally mess up the schedule. For me, it was pretty much irrelevant too. Not
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Tonight I write this as I should be partying instead. Tonight is the end-of-year cast party for the children’s drama. Or rather, that is what the schedule says. The party was actually canceled due to lack of interest, plus a general grim outlook on people showing up on Wednesday nights for past rehearsals. If it
I am very tired so I will make this one quick. Besides, it was PE again, at the same school as Friday, so there isn’t much to say about it. Kickball again. The only real difference was I had 8th grade health instead of 6th, so I had the 6th graders for PE instead of
I keep meaning to mention this bit of info. Or maybe I already did but don’t remember. In any event, I was at a middle school doing PE, but you already knew that. Unlike Thursday’s PE, we actually got to go outside. Well, there were two periods of sixth grade health, but that’s why I
IT for short, not to be confused with information technology which was a possible career track for me once, was where I was Monday and today. This is the class that was once know as shop, as it used to consist solely of things like woods, plastics, and metals. Nowadays those three still exist, but
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In days of banning tag from the playground because some kids “get too rough” it seems only natural that dodge-ball is so far banned, it is even anathema to mention it. Perhaps that is really only valid in the elementary school though. Or maybe the ones making the rules don’t like the attitude of middle
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