Opinions I Cant Share In The Classroom

Things to be thought and felt but not said in a rural middle school science class

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I love coding in the classroom.

I love the drag and drop coding in the classroom for so many reasons.

1) Real world problem solving

2) Students who may not be good at “regular” science class, may excel at this activity

3) We all help each other out in the room, finding solutions for one anothers’ errors.

4) The kid that thinks they know everything might not succeed the first time

5) The kid that thinks they know everything might not succeed the second time

6) The kid that is made fun of by “the kid that thinks they know everything” might succeed the first time, and rub it in a little.

7) Then the kid that is made fun of by “the kid that thinks they know everything” nicely assists the know-it-all kid anyway, Further proving how wonderful they are.

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The week before winter break

The school:

Admin: Keep up the rigor! Put grades on third quarter if you need to, don’t just show movies or make holiday crafts!!

Me:

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I just don’t even know anymore.

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“I will marry your brother!”

The thought that frequents my mind when the student who won’t listen to me has an older brother or a brother that is their guardian.

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Recently there has been a lot of debate on my staff about a survey we have asking which gender students prefer to be recognized as.

Then I go to buy some clothes and apparently because I am fat, I do not have a gender option. What is this?

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I know it’s been about a year since this episode but Pete Davidson in a pink sweatshirt definitely looks like an uncut penis with the hood push back right?? 1am thoughts

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And now it’s 12:20am and I’m drinking wine through a red vine. What has education done to me.

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Can’t sleep. It’s 11:30pm. I thought it’d be a good time to try cutting open a pomegranate.

It was not.

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School Board Schmool Board.

Today as I sit in the school board meeting all day. I watched one board member chew out our student services director saying things like the Directors puts “Normal students in an IEP Program” because they speak a different language at home. The board member did not understand that ELL programs and IEPs are not the same and REPEATEDLY called students “Normal” when referring to general education students who may have ELL status.

They also asked that student services research if fluoride in water is causing students to “be on IEPs”

HOW ARE THESE PEOPLE MY BOSSES’ BOSS!!!???!!!

Someone tell me their School Board is also this weird

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I just don’t even know anymore.

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A ‘C’ is average

Yesterday during my lunch the very true story occurred

The school receptionist walks into the staff room with a post-it note for me, right as I was opening my blackend chicken avocado ranch salad that I had been dreaming about all day. The post-it reads

“Please call AnneMarie. She wants to know what her son can do to have a better grade.”

This child has a C. We are 8 school days into the new quarter. There are 2 assignments in the grade book.

I laugh. Then ask “When did she call?”

The receptionist says no no she is here.

So I get up, walk away from my salad with the glorious sweet scents of avocado and a hint of cilantro begging to be quickly shoved into my face on my approximately 25 minutes of lunch.

I see the parent looming in the hall as I come from behind the office door. We greet each other having met only ONCE before, despite welcome night, the open house, and parent teacher conferences all having already happened.

“So I need to know how he can improve his grade” she starts

I never quite know what to say when the grade is an okay grade. The kid just gets a few things wrong. So I try.

“Well I think with this one he is just going to have to wait for the next assignment, and really try his best .” I explain “There isn’t a lot in and he has gotten a few things wrong on both the assignments. I will be grading the Bill Nye worksheet by the end of the weekend so if he did well on that it should boost him”

“So there is nothing else he can do?”

“No, not really. I do want you to know that he does have a C and a C is an average grade”

At that moment, she twists her face ever so slightly and responds with a hyper speed voice “We don’t do Average in my house.”

I probably had a dumbfounded look on my face when I respond “Have you told him that?”

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Listen

Stop requiring teachers that have been sexually assaulted (especially rape or repeated assault victims) to have to take intense sexual assault/abuse training EVERY YEAR.

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I hate being touched.

Middle Schoolers hate being touched.

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Putting your desk in the corner,on the wall with the door, making you hard to find.