Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Uncategorized on September 30, 2005 | No Comments »
The following is a direct quote from a witness statement I received this week regarding a fight off campus at a bus stop:
I didn’t see nuthin but violence.
- Deep Throat
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Uncategorized on September 28, 2005 | 3 Comments »
Unlike the original “water” version of the above statement versed so eloquently by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, I am not thirsty. I know I have mentioned that I work in one of the oldest schools in my district. I may not have mentioned that I am left a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Uncategorized on September 25, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Celebrate the freedom to read whatever you damn well choose by reading a banned book. This weekend kicks off “Banned Books Week” sponsored by the American Library Association and several other groups celebrating the freedom to read. Check out the link to the festivities above.To those groups, usually parents, who want books they deem offensive [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Uncategorized on September 22, 2005 | No Comments »
The two things about the time since my last post:
1. The sky did not fall, but it did come close.2. I successfully coordinated and ran my first official major school event!
The two things on my mind today:
1. Tomorrow is Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!2. My family is in the Houston/Galveston/Lake Charles area.
Some have been [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Uncategorized on September 12, 2005 | 3 Comments »
No, I’m not Chicken Little, but I am having a rough spell at work. Details will surely follow in this and other entries this week.
As my friend, KDW, says, “It is what it is.” Here are some things that are what they are:
The ghetto is the ghetto. (A student actually told me today: [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Uncategorized on September 2, 2005 | No Comments »
Eerie? Prophetic? True.
Read this Scientific American article from October 2001 which includes the title’s quote and which foreshadowed the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.
Words escape me during this ongoing tragedy. Today was the first day I really had time to process what occured in my homeland on Monday. I am so very thankful that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Uncategorized on September 1, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Since I have a school theme going this first week of school, I’ll keep it up for my regular Thursday entry. Which one is the lie?
1. A student on my alpha list told his teacher to “kiss his ass” and admitted to it proudly moments later in my office, stating “I did [...]
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