For Halloween yesterday, one of my students wore really tight pants... just to get attention, I think, because no one was really sure what his costume was. The principal walked in for my pop-in evaluation, but she left because it was just a catch-up day for the students to read. After she left, one student told me that he was very close to the ( Read more... )

I actually know damn all
about it, but I've heard
that every word in Arabic
has at least three basic

meanings; it means
what it normally means; it means
its complete opposite;
and every single word

has something to do
with a camel.
So here; I mean what I say;
I mean what I do not say;

and every single word
has something to do with you.

Me: (speaking to a specific student) You haven't done anything today ( Read more... )

One of the things that has gotten me through the past couple of weeks is Zeppelin III. I swear, that album can cure any bad mood. Which brings me to my next top 5. What are your...

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THE FRAY IS TONIGHT!!!

:-D

(Yup, I'm crazy. I'm driving to Chicago to see a concert with my dad on a school night. Who says grownups have to be responsible?)

... or, if you prefer, "stay a lazy Sunday."

It's been a while since we've had a good top 5 going, so let's do this one:

What are your...

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On Friday, I stepped in the middle of two escalating fights and a student asked me, in front of the whole class as the other students were working on group work, how I would feel if he jumped out the window (the first week of school, this student wrote about suicide in his journal and I had to take care of it then, as well ( Read more... )

"They put it in the teacher's manual -- that useless, slim, wire-bound thing -- Your students will die on you. Don't get too attached."