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January 2008 - Posts

better teachers?!?! *&%$ you, George!

Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:08 PM by mz.w :: 1 Comments
According to Mr. President's State of the Union Address, NCLB is WORKING and AMERICA NEEDS BETTER TEACHERS!!! I will choose to fully exercise my First Amendment rights elsewhere as I know their limits. Plus, there's always the PATRIOT ACT...phhhhhhbbbbbbbbbbbbbtttttttttttttttttt!!! Read More...

crack monkeys pay attention!!!

Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:19 AM by mz.w :: 1 Comments
ha! it's not me, it really isn't. still VERY cool to hear them talk about this election. some of them are totally disenfranchised for a number of reasons: too young to vote, don't pay taxes, not a citizen, not planning on being a citizen, general teenage Read More...

ridiculously blessed!

Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:18 AM by mz.w :: 2 Comments
ridiculously blessed! so this teaching thing...it ain't easy. and being a n00b makes takes it to a certain level of insanity. altho, statistically, being in my 3rd year i am no longer a n00b. still feeling like a novice much of the time, but also teaching Read More...

i <3 my crack monkeys

Posted Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:18 PM by mz.w :: 0 Comments
i do i do! see, they actually learn sometimes, despite their best efforts to the contrary:) also, annual squarebowl tonight(squaredancing in pe, then competition) and they were SO CUTE!!! wanted to just eat them up! busy weekend...actual social life alert!!! Read More...

10 lbs. chocolate=persuasive essay!!!

Posted Sunday, January 20, 2008 11:10 AM by mz.w :: 3 Comments
i had one of those middle of the night ideas a couple of nights ago: we're working on persuasive essays and i decided that the student who could write me the best persuasive essay on what i should do with the 10lbs of chocolate could have the 10lbs of Read More...

he walked out on his 3rd period

Posted Sunday, January 13, 2008 7:20 PM by mz.w :: 4 Comments
a teacher i work with walked out on his thrid period class this week. and i don't mean just walked out and away down the hall. he grabbed his stuff, walked out the door and got in his truck. and sat there with the door open. i know all this b/c i was Read More...

i wanna rock and roll all night

Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 11:24 PM by mz.w :: 0 Comments
and party every day! first iron maiden, now metallica. it wouldn't have to be metallica, but that is the version of the song i am most familiar w. and what i think will get the students' attention. not that they are into metal, most of them(i love my Read More...

political crack monkies

Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 11:14 PM by mz.w :: 4 Comments
ya, my 8th grade crack monkies are actually paying attention to the primaries--b/c there is a person of color and a woman running. i don't know that they would be paying attention otherwise. they actually asked me to stop the lesson of the day to discuss Read More...

back to the crack-monkey house

Posted Monday, January 07, 2008 1:38 AM by mz.w :: 2 Comments
*i would like to acknowledge the fact that i stole the metaphor of middle school students acting like monkeys on crack from jtspencer* when does the first-day-back induced insomnia go away? does it ever? sunday nights are bad enough, but the night after Read More...