#benotprouddeath

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benotprouddeath replied to your post: Part of my upcoming coffee table book ...

Did you get a haircut? Looks good.

Dang, good eye!!! Yes I did (more accurately, I cut it myself, because I'm cheap), and thank you!

onmypace replied to your post: Part of my upcoming coffee table book ...

first to order a copy/

For you I will even sign it, my friend LOL

[hithertokt]

Zinnia: Who was your best friend when you were six years old?

Christina? I think that would be the right age. We lost touch ages ago (moving in middle school will do that), but we had many many good times.

Calla Lily: If you died right now, what song would you want to play at your funeral?

Hills and Valleys by Rocket Summer. Pompeii by Bastille also comes to mind. I'd want to spark some smiles.

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benotprouddeath replied to your post: Carbed up over the weekend an...

You work out in the knicks’ locker room? What’s with the orange/blue lockers? haha.

Hahahaha, no it's the university locker room...I have no idea about the colors, since the school colors are red, black, and white.

knowncitizen replied to your post: Carbed up over the weekend an...

Lookin’ beefier today for sure

I think, of all my many, many selfies, this may be my favorite LOL

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benotprouddeath replied to your post: A switch (of sorts).

Same co-teacher you struggled with last year or different?

And honestly: who tells kids that they better be sure to get higher than a 64.5 because a 64.4 isn't passing? I mean, hello, high expectations? But whatever. It was her lead, I guess, and I had things to do.

But always the positive: for all that I genuinely believe she's got more to improve as an educator than not (NTS: that was a terrible way to start a positive note), she is absolutely there for the kids, which isn't a bad place to start. And regardless of flow: by the end of class, kiddos had access to grades and struggling writers had completed work with me. Win-win.

[Inner (terrible) glee though: she's co-teaching with three other English teachers this year and 2/3 have already come up to me with 'How the heck did you deal with this all year' diatribes. Ha!]

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themuscleboss replied to your post: So apparently I counterbalanc...

Traveling the world and makin all da gains

knowncitizen replied to your post: So apparently I counterbalanc...

Intl Gainz Inc.

benotprouddeath replied to your post: So apparently I counterbalanc...

gainz on gainz.

IHOG!  International House of Gainz!!!

alwaysyours49 replied to your post: So apparently I counterbalanc...

dude food in Japan is AMAZING. jelly

I didn't parse this sentence properly at first and I was like "Yes, yes the jelly there is nice, too..." but then I figured out what you meant LOL

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Do you have a masters? If yes, in what? Does your district pay more if you have one? If no, plans and why? I'm quickly approaching a timing window where I should start one but don't know what I should pursue!

I currently live in a district that has very low salaries for teachers across the board. To give you a frame of reference: if I had a PhD and 25+ years experience here, my salary would cap out at near the same amount I would have started at with just a Master’s and zero experience in MD where I student taught. I find the Master’s hardly worth it here; I would find it extremely beneficial back home.

But I do have a Master’s in secondary education (English concentration, of course). UMD has a pretty decent integrated five year program for education, in which you can get your Master’s in just one additional year of schooling/internships. I was late to the game deciding I wanted to be a teacher, so I was faced with an odd (or lucky) situation of needing one more year of school anyway, regardless of whether it was the B.A. track or the M.Ed. I chose the latter, for many reasons, but the most obvious of which was why the heck not.

But if I were to go back for another degree, after teaching for a few years? I (personally) would definitely not go the education route, at least not instruction. I would go for English/Writing — I think it would be invaluable to understand my content more deeply and I would absolutely love to be a student of my own subject again. I’m not sure what type of student you are, but I know that I’m a lazy one (just being honest). I would have to choose something that really interests me or else I’d be miserable. And that’s a lot of time and money spent toward being miserable…

Sidenote: I can’t see anything in the Education field interesting me enough, but that’s mostly because I dislike the “feet in the trenches/head in the clouds" divide between degree programs and actual teaching. It frustrates me.

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Sigh.

This is why we can't have nice things talks.

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sweatmorebleedless replied to your post: bucketofchum replied to your post: bucketofchum...

which is why i don’t understand wearing boxers…no thanks

benotprouddeath replied to your post: bucketofchum replied to your post: bucketofchum...

Oh the dangling is killer sometimes>.<

Thank you for the commiseration, brothers.  And thus it is proved that commando+Y chromosome+vigorous jostling = no, no, no....Amy Winehouse-style.