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Last week I awoke to music blasting at 4:00am from the upstairs apartment. It was so loud that it was as if I had been playing it at a moderate volume in my own room. Quite loud. I went upstairs and knocked on the door, and he couldn't hear me for the music. So I pounded. He turned it down. He didn't come to the door ( Read more... ) -
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OK, I'm better now. I find that every month or so I need to murder a child. Oh, good the fire alarm. That moment of calm has passed. I'm glad you were here to experience it with me. -
ARGH!
OK, you wanna know why teaching is a fucked up job? You are paid to alter human behavior en masse. It's like trying to raise 30 children at a time. And they're little fuckers sometimes. So your job involves a constant breaking of the human spirit and a building back up again. And so if you're someone who is shitty at breaking people correctly ( Read more... ) -
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Uhh... I thought that that post was going to happen somewhere else. Not on my livejournal. So. Forget that last one. Actually, forget this one too. -
WELCOME
Welcome to the interweb, students of Bed Stuy. Here you can post all sorts of stuff. No longer need you be confined to paper and pencil. Here we ride the digital superhighway. Woo. -
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I'm having one of those days that the Old Testament God really enjoys giving people. The ones where He fucks with what you care about most to see what you're really like. Because He doesn't believe that I wont stab a child to death with a pair of scissors. I'd just like to say that I passed the test, even though some kids later said, "Wow, you' ( Read more... ) -
What teachers make, by Taylor Mali
He says the problem with teachers is, "What's a kid going to learn ( Read more... ) -
New Year
I do get a new beginning with my kids this new year. That'll be awesome. All my grades were due before break, so now I'm going to start this new unit, a new grading system, and a new book. The Color Purple. My principal knows Alice Walker's daughter, Rebecca, but apparently she hates her mom, so she's not going to help us get her to come in and ( Read more... )
