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  • Jerks

    I have been contemplating the jerky student for the past week. This is the student I longed to rescue as an ingenuous student teacher--the same one that seasoned mentors encouraged me to get rid of so I could do my job.…

  • Minor reliefs

    My compañera had extra folders I could use for the imperfect/preterite project the other Spanish folk do, without having to climb up to the 2nd floor teacher's lounge. SB renewed my faith in student-kind by singing "Fot…

  • Which is worse?

    Having in your possession, in this day and age, a card on which a student wrote "We should BOMB THEM, kill them all" in response to "What are your final thoughts on bilingualism in the U.S.?" OR turning over said card to…

  • I hear you

    OK, I get it. You hate Spanish. You will make it a point never to use it. You'd much rather take French or German. Football will play a larger role in your future than the Spanish language ever will. This is harder …

  • Vindication!

    1) The kid whose mom e-mailed to ream me about how I wasn't teaching Spanish and how MLA was a ridiculous thing to ask of high school students (with citationmachine.net) not only had her works cited done basically right,…

  • BITCHES

    It's my first year all over again. Since I'm in a new district with a new textbook teaching no English--in a previously unfurnished trailer in a school with hours beginning an ungodly half hour earlier--I started with n…

  • Moving

    I was sorting all kinds of papers, folders, and binders today. You would not believe the cornucopia of artifacts I have saved over the past four years, but I resolved to have no more than 1, maybe 2, boxes labeled "MISC…

  • Teaching too long?

    I have no idea who they are sometimes. No wait, that's not true. I have an idea, one single solitary straw to grasp at as I try to match their face to a name to a class to a year. This was really easy about two years …

  • Shiny newness!

    I am so excited! My dear, wonderful friend, Ms. Cole, of media center fame, has been handing out the book money like candy this week. I've been impressed with A Long Way Gone (did you see the author on The Daily Show l…

  • Mixture

    It occurs to me that some of these heathens may never realize the lengths I've gone to for them. There are a few, I know, who blithely overlook the mounds of unscored assignments that periodically spurt off of the growi…