umm...no.

January 26, 2012

Once a Student, always yours

I really wanted to come home today and write about how good the last two days have gone since we started the new semester and how exhausted I am, even after having Monday and Tuesday as work days.

I wanted to. But then I found out one of my Poly kids, who I taught for a year during my internship, passed away. Then I found out he took his own life. Then I found out it was with a gun. I am so incredibly sad. He, and my other students there, area l can think about.

Two years ago he was a sophomore who could not stop talking, laughing, smiling. Always smiling. I don’t know whats happened in two years; I’ve been working in the county since then. Those kids, collectively, were the best thing thats happened to me as a teacher and as a person. So bright, so talented. But they’re still teenagers. I hope they can lean on each other and pull each other through. I hope none of them ever feel they have do something like this. I hope no teenager’s parents or siblings or friends have to go through this. RIP Devin. This teacher loves you all, Poly 2012.

January 23, 2012
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kicksandgiggles:

iamlittlei:

Perfection.

(I will stop reblogging these eventually maybe.)

swoon swoon swoon

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January 20, 2012
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iamlittlei:

lorenlovesdopamine:

Bitches get stuff done!

Let me love you

True facts.

YES. Suck it.

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January 16, 2012
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January 14, 2012
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mochachai:

Why Teachers Drink

January 13, 2012

teaching makes you stupid

I swear that every day I walk into that building I get dumber.

January 8, 2012
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fauxrealyo:

Time to search for grants! My kiddos NEED stand up desks.

WANT WANT WANT!!!

January 5, 2012
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

—Elbert Hubbard (via myquotelibrary)

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January 1, 2012
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December 13, 2011
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Teacher in Training: Conversation with a parent... ★

teachintraining:

A little background first. The student involved is a home schooled student who comes to the middle school twice a day: once in the morning for choir and once in the afternoon for Drama. She has not been in class for the last week and a half and I have only just now gotten an answer on the phone:

They could just not care. Or there could be something weird going on. Have a guidance counselor call and check it out, and maybe guilt them into getting it together. They’re good at that.