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April 2008 - Posts

don't make this your life

Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:29 PM by mz.w :: 2 Comments
is what she said to me. she said she thinks it's why she never got married, b/c she was always at school. she was talking about how we should be going out with our friends until wee hours of the morning. how does a repsonsible adult do that though? the Read More...

i hate grading

Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 12:08 AM by mz.w :: 1 Comments
i will do almost anything other than grade this year. that includes other things i'm not fond of doing, such as working out and cleaning my classroom, house or car. this works ok for the most part as i know how the kids are doing really, i just don't Read More...

communication

Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 7:31 PM by mz.w :: 0 Comments
i made several phone calls home yesterday after playing enforcer for what seemed like the entire day. started this morning off with an intense parent-teacher-student conference that ended decently and i was totally unprepped for the day, but managed to Read More...

the enforcer

Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 9:41 PM by mz.w :: 1 Comments
that's what i felt like today. if they want to test the boundaries, that's the age group right? well there were just too many of them today. so many of them are crying out for help too, on top of their middle school angst. i printed out the full serenity Read More...

girl-girl break up

Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 9:35 PM by mz.w :: 0 Comments
so a couple of my students that i thought were awfully friendly with each other, well, it turns out they were dating and have now broken up! no wonder they haven't been getting any work done in class, as they sit next to each other. one of my after school Read More...

running amok at the zoo

Posted Friday, April 04, 2008 9:39 PM by mz.w :: 1 Comments
we went to the zoo. it's free zoo day the first wednesday of every month. in san francisco. our lovely science teacher has been teaching 8th grade up until now and had never been there before. she originally wanted to let the kids buddy up in pairs to Read More...