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Comment on 14 days…not that I’m counting by sage

sage — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:26:35 +0000

Yeah, I’m counting the days too… THe spring break here starts on Easter and we’ll be heading to NC to visit my grandmother in Hickory then my parents over on the coast and be there for the Azelea Festival–it’s truly a magical time of the year there with everything in bloom. Hang in there.
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Comment on Teachers At Risk by Kontan

Kontan — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:21:31 +0000

Same here. I wouldn’t mind teaching what I teach if it wasn’t a constant battle for the job. It’s hard to give everything I have when I know that at the end of the year they are going to cut me. I wonder what it will be like when we know that our pay is dependent on difficult teens. I know people in the classroom, I refuse to call them teachers, who will simply fix the numbers.

Comment on Nothing that a few drinks and Friday can’t fix… by kontan

kontan — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:26:23 +0000

*sigh…no, we can’t hit them unless they hit us. I just took it with a scary calm and had her removed. Security is called at least once each week. Sometimes more. It’s the nature of it. Once they settled, we really had a good class Thursday.
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Comment on Nothing that a few drinks and Friday can’t fix… by Sage

Sage — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:17:43 +0000

Wow, sounds like a rough week. Things have changed, I remember in high school a girl cussed a teacher and the teacher, a woman who seemed ancient at the time, slapped her on the face. Hang in there and I think calling security was a wise decision.
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Comment on March 10th by Djembe

Djembe — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:36:18 +0000

You are her greatest legacy.
~*~

Comment on March 10th by Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:08:42 +0000

She looks like a wonderful person.
Born in the same year as my Granny.
A strong generation I think.
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Comment on All I needed was rain by Tense Teacher

Tense Teacher — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:32:22 +0000

Your last paragraph of this post said it just right.
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Comment on Teachers At Risk by kontan

kontan — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:50:19 +0000

Recently I have seen teaching to the test being practiced in its most pure form. Truly sad. I am hanging in there, and it is not all bad. There are aspects that I really like, but wow at the negative.
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Comment on Teachers At Risk by sage

sage — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:05:57 +0000

Hang in there and do your best, you can’t do any more. There was an interesting piece on NPR last week (I think Tuesday) by a former supporter of NCLB–who worked for the first Bush–she said that NCLB has failed and had a lot of criticsm of the “teaching to the test” mood that education has gotten into.
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Comment on Teachers At Risk by Elona Hartjes

Elona Hartjes — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:18:51 +0000

Performance pay? Who will want to teach struggling/reluctant learners? It’s easier to teach well behaved, motivated students.

People ask me all the time why I actually want to teach the classes I choose to teach. I tell them, I want to make a difference. But, I certainly don’t want to be penalized because of it.
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