Posted on 07/05/2005 12:51:18 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
HEEHEE. Cool. I only speak 2 languages. I will amen to the reading. Not enough of it being done by people nowadays.
Which two?
I will amen to the reading
That should have the word "say" in there.
Tough call.
As a kid growing up in Indianapolis, I spent a lot of May days sitting down at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. My folks called up the school, told the administration that I'd be at the track, and off I went. Of course, I went to a private school, so it's a little different, but things turned out fine.
But there are also the kids that can't afford to be missing days. I mean, there are some dumb folks out there that ought to be proficient in some basic skills so they aren't just sitting around collecting welfare. If we're going to have social programs, and I'm not saying that we should, the state has an interest in making sure that kids are educated to at least a certain level. Tough call here.
English and pig latin. Actually, Korean, though I don't get a chance to practice too often so I'm a little rusty and not good enough to be a translator.
Korean WAS one of my languages - lived in Etaewon, Ja'un J'taek, Yangsan-gu as a kid. That was a LONG time ago. ;)
Kamsahamnida.
Korean WAS one of my languages - lived in Etaewon, Ja'un J'taek, Yangsan-gu as a kid. That was a LONG time ago. ;)
Kamsahamnida
Chanmaneyo. :) Chega--onulun korang-ne katgo--iseyo. :)
Actually, sometimes I insert some Spanish in there once in a while as I did take high school Spanish. I used to be pretty good at Spanish, but have lost a lot of it because I get it too mixed up with Korean and little opportunity to speak it around here, not to mention no time to study it.
And BTW, the Japenese word for bed-and-breakfast means something ENTIRELY different in Chosan.
Hehe. Actually, korang-ne means stinky feet. With those people from Cheju-do, you can't even understand their Korean accent. I actually learned how to count to 10 in German before I did in English. My dad was in the service over there.
That is just ridiculous!
When I was coming up, I was allowed to miss school only if fever or contagion risk were involved. NO exceptions.
Man, do I ever miss teaching.
Am considering going for alternative certification so I can teach high school English.
That is just ridiculous!
When I was coming up, I was allowed to miss school only if fever or contagion risk were involved. NO exceptions.
That is exactly the only times I was allowed to miss too. I tried to make myself sick one year (8th grade), but my mom said, "You're going and that's final." In 9 years of teaching, I've missed an average of about 1 day a year and no sick days. Most have been due to either a class, funeral, or family reunion. Mom said, "You need to take off two days to come to the family reunion this year." I said, "Yes, ma'sm. I will miss one day this year due to my brother getting married too.
Holy cats! Remind me not to get on your bad side.
In Fort Bend, southwest of Houston, if I was absent from first period, the school called my dad, and if they couldn't find him they'd call my mother (who worked at another school in my district) and interrupt her class to find out where I was.
If I'd ever been present in first period but absent in second, and the office had no record of me signing out for a doctor appointment, the parents got called. (That never happened.)
And whatever my parent said I was home with had to be in the note I had to bring back next day. If Dad said I was home with the flu, my note from him or Mom had to say, "Xena missed yesterday because she had flu."
Fort Bend was serious about truancy.
Man, do I ever miss teaching.
Am considering going for alternative certification so I can teach high school English
You seem like a good cantidate for it. I think I'll stay in first grade for a while.
Almost no one says "Holy cat(s)!" I love that expression and use it as often as I can.
When I did teach (freshman and sophomore English at the University of Houston), I had the reputation of being VERY tough and VERY helpful. I kept about three times as many office hours as required, and about twice as many as most of the teaching fellows. I gave the students my home phone number, and they could call me with questions about any assignment just about any time (within reasonable limits).
I also firmly believed (and still do) that if my students didn't get two good laughs out of each class, they didn't learn anything that day.
The students often started by feeling like they were stuck taking my classes . . . which they were, since I only taught core . . . but by semester's end, they'd ask me if I knew which time slot I'd have next semester so they could try to get me again.
Hoo boy, but I was tough. And fun.
Whoops. Not my best topic.
See my profile. And remember, I flunked.
Your philosophy and mine are the same. I believe in being firm, but fair, flexible and funny too. Some parent told me that I would never make it in administration because I'm too much like a big kid. She's right.
I don't take myself too seriously and the kids don't either (except when it comes to the 3 r's that is).
Almost no one says "Holy cat(s)!" I love that expression and use it as often as I can.
There's a guy around here who says it a lot. PLUS I've been wathching old Superfriends shows with Batman and Robin in them. I never knew that Casey Kasem was the voice of Robin before.
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