Dear So and So

[Veronica]

Thanks Crankin.

I'm just getting so tired of the excuses - from the adults!

I talked about it a bit with my principal today. Apparently, I'm goal oriented and driven and most of my peers aren't. I've got his kid in my room and he's just thrilled with how much progress the child's made this year. Nearly two grade levels in reading - nothing changed at home, parents weren't doing anything different... my bar is set high. And I don't lower it. I'll help build stairs and ladders to reach it, but it doesn't get lowered.

Veronica

[Owlie]

Veronica, I know I always did best with teachers who did place high expectations on their students. So thank you for being one of those teachers.

[OakLeaf]

+1. I don't say it often enough. Thank you, V.

[Crankin]

I had the kids of more than one principal. The year one of my teammates was verbally abusing my class in particular when they went to her for math, it got so bad that finally I said to the daughter of the HS principal, (I can still see us sitting on the rug and me saying this through clenched teeth) "tell your father." I now believe that this woman was bipolar, but after the kids filled up 4 pieces of chart paper with complaints about her and the counselor was having to come in to my class daily, I had had it. Fifth graders didn't need that.
How can you be a teacher today and not be goal oriented?
Fourth graders would occasionally cry when they found out they had me for fifth grade, because they realized they would have to work! It became less of an issue when i when to a 6th/7th loop in middle school. I was on the team that had high expectations, but in a kid friendly way. As opposed to the "kill and drill" b*tches who thought I was evil incarnate when I first arrived at the school. Thankfully, by the time I left, they all were gone and everyone was on board. My school was great and I was very lucky to have been there for 8 years.

[ultraviolet]

Dear self,

You're more than fully booked on projects. Absolutely no more until you've freed up at least 25 hours of billable time a week. I mean it. There will be consequences for non-compliance. Don't make me get rid of some of your toys.

Love,
me

[Owlie]

Dear friend, and boyfriend's mom--
I do not really want to hear anything else about Zumba. I'm glad you enjoy it, but I think you both need to find different things to talk about...

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Dear friend, and boyfriend's mom--
I do not really want to hear anything else about Zumba. I'm glad you enjoy it, but I think you both need to find different things to talk about...

LOL! That sounds like me with my contra dancing and beekeeping...I can't seem to shut up about it!

[divingbiker]

Dear friend, and boyfriend's mom--
I do not really want to hear anything else about Zumba. I'm glad you enjoy it, but I think you both need to find different things to talk about...

Haha. Zumba people do seem to be rather cult-like, don't they?