Last week there was a gang fight in the school where students and teachers had to go to the hospital. Generally I don't really care about cell phones in school. Don't be rude, pay attention and do what you're supposed to do and I will look the other way. That's my own policy. Like food. If you're hungry and need a little snack, you clean up ( Read more... )

Its official, things are different. Maybe never to return. It happened again on Friday. Only this time it was very public and not discreet at all and it also went further than the last time. This time last week we were back to normal, but this time somethign really changed ( Read more... )

Yesterday sucked. I had a meeting with a parent who is crazy. She is crazy and so is her daughter. Her daughter is actually pretty smart, which is what started this whole thing. I wanted to mainstream her, offer her support services and give her a part-time crisis paraprofessional. Somehow, in t he mix of all this, her mother decided I was ( Read more... )

Moving back to NY this time is quite possibly the best thing I could have done. It was a little rocky at first, which is to be expected, but things are great. I find myself having these moments where I am so completely content that I almost want to pray. Some days I wake up at 4:30am and don't get home until 9 or 10. When I finally slide into ( Read more... )

The world is such a strange place when, at one point in your life, you spent your days walking through the streets of a city you created with two hearts, and then somewhere down the line, you see that other person walking up the street toward you and without thinking, you just turn off, up the block to where your new life is and there is nothing ( Read more... )

Hmm. I'm feeling kind of beat up lately. Probably cause I've been taking some hits. Literally (broke up two fights after school on Friday). I'm having kind of an existential dilemma. Teaching is hard. I loooove my kids. This job makes me so happy, but there is something really alienating and exhausting about it. I think I'm depressed. Not ( Read more... )

Ran into you walking down the hall the other day when you were with a student. I heard you say, "and that is how you will be able to determine if a number is rational, irrational...". I gave you a smile perhaps too clear. Last night, when I leaned in to talk to you over the music and you leaned in to listen, we almost kissed. My smile to you ( Read more... )

One of my students came up to me yesterday in my resource class and told me that I was too flexible and she didn't want to attend my resource (study hall) room unless she felt like she had some reason to be there. The same day I checked out her NYS regents scores and found she hadn't passed her history regents. I went to other teachers and ( Read more... )

It still amazes me sometimes when I'm standing in front of my class that I'm even here. I talked to my mom last week. She told me that my father and she were having a good laugh about me. Apparently I am a weird child who always amazes you but that you're never really surprised by. It would just make sense that I would randomly decide to teach ( Read more... )

Oh, I remember why. Cause even when the most difficult students tells you he hates you and your class and storms out of the room, there are still all the other students who stay and when they are leaving some of them tell you they had fun, they liked your lesson and that you are a good teacher.