Wednesday

My senior English class is driving me nuts. I have several seniors in there, and they are lazy. I mean a few scored 22/100 on a test. My damn cat could guess close to that. But they don't study. They just hope to skim by. It's just frustrating to really like the students as people and get so confounded by them as students. You know you have a rather large test at the end of a week, so wouldn't you prepare? I shudder to what some of these kids will do in the workforce. Bounce from Taco John's to McDonalds to Walmart? I wish I could welcome them back into my classroom a decade from now instead. Let them get out there and see what jobs or opportunities are available for those without a work ethic or aptitude.

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Some snippets I've heard from students over the week.

"If I get an A, my parents will buy me a new car."

"I got into a fight at the dance this weekend. My mom just told me that I better beat her ass before I turn 18."

And then there was this gem, "Did you get the mirror part in my paper. I was using it as a symbol." Stuff like that can keep me going for months at a time.

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KoKo and I carved pumpkins last night. She, as the artist in the family, to create her own design. I decided to do a tracing. It's a cop out I know, but it was not as easy as it seemed.

Kristie found out that "Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin" was on ABC and watched that.