i have had a real tough week...
on tuesday i was struck by a student in the chest. i was trying to keep her from using a broom as an over the head allet on another student, and when it was pulled away from her her arms and body momnetum forced their way in to my chest.
and i have a bruise to prove it....
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on tuesday i was struck by a student in the chest. i was trying to keep her from using a broom as an over the head allet on another student, and when it was pulled away from her her arms and body momnetum forced their way in to my chest.
and i have a bruise to prove it....
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africa:
wow - thinking about that little girls life really puts my problems in perspective. life's just not as bad as it seems sometimes - you just have to learn to appreciate what you have.
dave_h:
Holy shit. Thats aweful.
in october of 2001 my computer crashed
i lost all my information, nothing was saved elsewhere
my last copy of my thesis from college -- i still have a hard copy thank god...
every piece of fiction i had ever wrote
and most humbling of all 5 years of a daily journal
this journal is the first time i have even tried to post regularly...
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i lost all my information, nothing was saved elsewhere
my last copy of my thesis from college -- i still have a hard copy thank god...
every piece of fiction i had ever wrote
and most humbling of all 5 years of a daily journal
this journal is the first time i have even tried to post regularly...
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turnstiles:
cool, another nyc school teacher. what's up?
turnstiles:
i teach high school math in lower manhattan.
i have yet to be hit by a student....although i have been 'hit on' by a student....
i have yet to be hit by a student....although i have been 'hit on' by a student....
ok
so i have one more day with the kids till my holiday break -- noththing like seperation of curch and state when all the major christian holidays are the days off of government, schools, etc..., but at least her in nyc we get jewish days as well. but what aboutother religions... i guess they just get a big fuck you.
hey welcome to america......
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so i have one more day with the kids till my holiday break -- noththing like seperation of curch and state when all the major christian holidays are the days off of government, schools, etc..., but at least her in nyc we get jewish days as well. but what aboutother religions... i guess they just get a big fuck you.
hey welcome to america......
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joyrider:
thanks for posting that thing about the detainments. i hadn't heard anything in the news about it.
i cannot believe what is happening in this country right now...
i cannot believe what is happening in this country right now...
neon:
best profile pic ever!
i am now done with all work for my thesis, i will have a masters in short order.
yet somehow i feel unfulfilled.
fell that i wasted the last 1.5 years (how exactly areyou to deal with a one half... it is not singular nor plural -- fucking hell). i should have been doing a phd in american studeis or history and not wasted time...
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yet somehow i feel unfulfilled.
fell that i wasted the last 1.5 years (how exactly areyou to deal with a one half... it is not singular nor plural -- fucking hell). i should have been doing a phd in american studeis or history and not wasted time...
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catculus:
I'd say that it's plural because it's more than one even if it's not quite two.
so i am a few hours away from having a masters in education...
just need to complete my paper on ebbets feild and how its creation and destruction were a metaphor for brooklyn's mental state... or some damn thing like it anyway.
so i have to complete this by monday of next week... strange really, i am about to have a degree even more worthless...
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just need to complete my paper on ebbets feild and how its creation and destruction were a metaphor for brooklyn's mental state... or some damn thing like it anyway.
so i have to complete this by monday of next week... strange really, i am about to have a degree even more worthless...
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catculus:
probably not healthy.
how is an education degree useless?
how is an education degree useless?
catculus:
hmm, I probably didn't need to hear that. I do however still have my heart set on teaching.
thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year -- i mean fuck the puritin and native feast -- i am talking great vegan food, freinds from all over coming to eat my food and simple conversation
and then a day of protest: buy nothing day, always a favorite -- and i try to incorperate it into buy nothing month, only food and beer, and the...
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and then a day of protest: buy nothing day, always a favorite -- and i try to incorperate it into buy nothing month, only food and beer, and the...
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jessica:
Yummm! Hey, I liked what you wrote in Siren's journal about why you're a teacher. Go you!
kingskottie:
hmm. a watchman profile pic.
so i changed my profile pic
the time is right for a left wing rorshach to inhabit the city and root out the filth of right wing crap
we are sitting in the broth of destruction right now
the bill of right slowly eroding, with champions calling for the chair for it
so i have gone from the dark knight of vengence to purger of...
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the time is right for a left wing rorshach to inhabit the city and root out the filth of right wing crap
we are sitting in the broth of destruction right now
the bill of right slowly eroding, with champions calling for the chair for it
so i have gone from the dark knight of vengence to purger of...
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nadir:
notice how i did not claim the democraps would help
'republican or democrats/its all the same to me'
they serve big money and not people
i a sick of the onslaught of rights eroding in the name of national security, hell they have been ticking away since the founding fathers signed them into law
just a rant
'republican or democrats/its all the same to me'
they serve big money and not people
i a sick of the onslaught of rights eroding in the name of national security, hell they have been ticking away since the founding fathers signed them into law
just a rant
catculus:
ooo! updates! 
so i am sitting here trying to finish a thesis project
is it so wrong to willfully make up data which has a basis in reality due to the fact i did not have time to log everything when it occured?
i am writing on how intrusions and disruptions in the school day create chaos and havok on the learning environment -- so i did...
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is it so wrong to willfully make up data which has a basis in reality due to the fact i did not have time to log everything when it occured?
i am writing on how intrusions and disruptions in the school day create chaos and havok on the learning environment -- so i did...
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i am now on the prowl for new employment come july...
i can not stick it out in a systemt hat is built to fail.
my principal and i got in an arguement last year about how the students are expected to fail. i said they were not, can not if we teach them right.
it boiled down to a shouting match.
i now know...
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i can not stick it out in a systemt hat is built to fail.
my principal and i got in an arguement last year about how the students are expected to fail. i said they were not, can not if we teach them right.
it boiled down to a shouting match.
i now know...
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eris:
working with kids is hard.
it's even harder to work with kids in a school setting.
but whatever.
isn't that also what makes it awesome?
chin up.
it's even harder to work with kids in a school setting.
but whatever.
isn't that also what makes it awesome?
chin up.
glamerdork:
I'm sorry that things worked out this way. Even if the system is fucked, I'm sure you mean more to your students than you think. If you're on suicide girls.com, you must be a pretty cool teach anyway. 
Best of luck w/ whatever you end up doing!
Best of luck w/ whatever you end up doing!i am: a school teacher, 99% vegan (would prefer 100% but sometimes you never know and perfection does not exist), a beer snob, a music snob, patient (though no idea how it developed), cynical's definition in the dictonary has my picture and sarcasm's says see cynical,
i enjoy: my cat, the fall: the best season ever, math problems that warp the brain, baseball -- as...
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i enjoy: my cat, the fall: the best season ever, math problems that warp the brain, baseball -- as...
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go_lately:
*poke poke*
my month off this summer made me seriously forget how tired teaching makes you
i am not sure how long i want to continue to teach -- but it will be here in my current school for as long as i last
but i do not know what else to do
i did the law thing for awhile, but got sick of sucking corperate dick...
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i am not sure how long i want to continue to teach -- but it will be here in my current school for as long as i last
but i do not know what else to do
i did the law thing for awhile, but got sick of sucking corperate dick...
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catculus:
oo, I want to teach junior high
i am finally getting settled with the new school year
my new kids
its wierd but i have an afinity to them that i only had to a few last year
today i found myself explaining how to write with such errie acuracy that i thought i had been possesed by some e.b. white clone
its actually coming along easily, i just hope it flies...
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my new kids
its wierd but i have an afinity to them that i only had to a few last year
today i found myself explaining how to write with such errie acuracy that i thought i had been possesed by some e.b. white clone
its actually coming along easily, i just hope it flies...
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