this is my first blog. i'm sure it will show. so many things to be frustrated and out right angry about. of the people, by the people, for the people...when did it stop?

 i am a high school teacher. this job should thrive as we choose to love our children. yes, we love them. teaching is no longer just telling kids what to add or what experiment to do or what verb to conjugate (tho that never seems to happen any more.)  teaching now is comprised so greatly with, in actuality, parenting the kids we get.

 i like in georgia. in my high school the blacks are 90% and whites 10%. do not misunderstand that the 90% are failures, because they are not. but present politics has put a large majority of them into the "i don't have to try because obama said he will take care of me and get me in college. he has fed my parents and grandparents and will take care of me. if i need i should be able to have it NOW. he PROMISED he would fix it. HE will find me work. HE will get me insurance. the white teachers don't know x*&!. i don't have to listen to them."   this is a small percentage but is generational.

 this year the biggest qualm was about letting kids who did not graduate/pass the EOCT's or graduation tests, walk in the graduation anyway. i guess they wanted the feeling of "time served."  HOW did it even become a topic to discuss. you graduate or you do not!

 yes, around 100% of the white, asian, indian kids gratuate. they WORK at it. they care. they have parents as support.

 THEN there is the notion that the way you build education is thru either.

    1. developing a DOE

    2. fire teachers to save superintendents jobs...make them principals...who cares if they've never taught.

    3. cut as much as you can from education(teachers) put it in technology. kids don't need to learn to write. kids don't need to research. kids don't need to think on their own. point and click...

 well, as you can tell, i can rant for hours. i won't. we are surrounded by quick fixes that come from pushing aside the reality of education and how you get it and replaced it...quick fixes, no money and RACES TO THE TOP. 

  all you who read this please forgive me. do i have answers? yes   am i fed up?  yes   but i love my kids and must prepare them, somehow, for the lunacy that awaits them.

 it's good i teach theatre and now science. i'm sure i would have...well, not been very good