tardy reasons.

my favorite might just be "hair"

Longest Week Ever

I'm not sure why exactly, I can't pinpoint a single thing that has turned this into the longest week, but it has been. Last week flew by like a hijacked speed boat. This week, a snail crawling slowly along a hot sidewalk with a crack in its shell.

(way to go on using similes and metaphors)

One of my worst students isn't even in my class; he's in alternative school for a month.
Yet, yet...I just can't get back into the routine of waking up at 5:45am every morning since the Christmas holiday. I don't wake up till 10am, which is two classes into the day...oh my poor poor first period class. They suffered this week.

I am excited for a THREE DAY WEEKEND! woot woot
and I'm excited to teach something I didn't teach last year, Lewis Carrol's Jabberwocky. It should be a great little activity to get my kids thinking about grammar-something I absolutely hate. Honestly, I teach Reading, not Grammar so I don't know all the parts of a sentence or the difference between complex/simple/confklad sentences and simple/complex/subjunctive/farteinds sentences....

So I can learn with the kids!!!!!!hahaha that makes me a horrible English teacher...but I promise other than grammar, I know my shit, I swear!


have a lovely weekend,

thaangryteacher

Anger is burning my chest right now.

I don’t want children. OMG. And why is it that women think I have gone temporarily insane and treat my like an invalid who doesn’t know what she is saying. Gibberish is suddenly pouring out of my mouth. “Oh you poor thing, you don’t know what you are saying! Of course you want children, of course you do! I can’t wait till you have babies…you will change your mind in a few years. And laugh at yourself, silly girl.”

Oh I am so fed up with people’s opinions being shoved on me. Yes, I agree, I might change my mind in ten years, but right now, I am 99% sure I do not want to have children exit my womb. I kinda don’t even see why normal women want babies…but nope, I won’t get into that now, I won’t stoop to the frustrating-and-infuriating-people-who-assume-I’m-the-crazy-one’s level.

There are multiple reasons I don’t want children, and my list grows weekly. Some are very personal that I won't devulge except to a handful of people in my life, and some are pure “selfishness” (for example, kids are fucking expensive and I want that money for me.)

So next time some innocent woman tells you that she doesn’t want children, please, please, please respect her decision and STAY THE HELL OUTTA IT. You don't know what's going on nor are you the decision making person for that woman's life.

Things I’ve Learned To Deal With

1.      Students, with 7 years of education under their belts, still don’t know the difference between “their”, “they’re” and, “there”. They also don’t know what “don’t” stands for.

2.      Constantly being outsmarted by 13 year olds. Yesterday I found out that 3 of my girls have been skipping my UIL class for the past two months. I felt about as smart as an earthworm knowing that children out maneuvered me for so long.

3.      Kids don’t do their homework. Never. Oh yeah, there are those 2 or 3 that have it everyday, but the majority “are too busy” watching TV and eating supper. Because eating dinner usually takes 5 hours.

4.      Laziness.

5.      Tardies. These used to not bother me at all, but this year I have a first period class and I have 4 students who are consistently tardy. It is annoying. They don’t usually disrupt anyone, it is the principle of the matter though.

Sorry I haven't blogged in a month. I have to post entries from work because my home internet is SO SLOW that it can't run blogger. How sad.

I had a great break, and guess what? I'm running a half marathon in May! So excited!

-thaangryteacher