My sister in law teaches second grade. Did you know the parents of students that get flunked can veto the flunk and send them into the next grade? It’s true. Why? Because nobody wants to make children feel bad. There is no accountability. She had 17 out of 27 students last year that didn’t speak english. These people couldn’t be flunked, well, because they couldn’t spell flunked. They were “ESL.”

So I am doing student teaching now. I’m with these kids 20 years in the future and the can’t comprehend anything because they have not been pushed. There have been no consequences. They still feel good about themselves, but they are so far behind the rest of the world that it will take them a bit to get caught up and be ready. Where if we had told them they “didn’t cut it” and they need to bring their learning skills “up a notch,” they may not be in this bind. Let me say something, these are NOT stupid people. It is a group of people that either their parents, their schools, etc have not held them accountable for their education.

The result is people in their 20s who are ending week 2 of school and haven’t purchased the book yet. We have people who create and online account (login and password), and then can’t remember the password. That’s ok, we sent the password to their e-mail, and they couldn’t remember the password to their email.

Again, these people are not stupid. They’ve just never been held accountable for their learning.

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Tags: education system, teaching

Back in 1992 I was a copier technician. We wore shirts and ties. Then we went and ripped apart copiers and got toner all over them. It was wonderful. This eventually lead to me being a customer service person who would go into an office and teach people how to run their copier. This lead to me being the head of the training department. All along the way I was wearing a tie. Then we went business casual. - Halleluiah.

Then I got a position where I was training different people at newspapers (same job different position as I HATED being in charge (babysitting) the training department). unfortunately, back came the tie. A few years later I was back to business casual (with a new position).

It’s been many moons since I’ve worn a tie. Everyone is happy with business casual. However, tomorrow I start my position as a “teacher’s assistant” at Stark State College (where I got my first degree, and if they have an education degree program where I would’ve obtained this degree). I need to dig through my closet and find some long sleeved shirts and some ties.

It’s like being on one side of a hill, and smelling the flowers on the other side. I’ve got four classes to go (taking two now), and I will be returning to the “Corporate” world. It will be weird not having such a flexible schedule. But it will also be nice having more than a few hundred bucks in the bank.

Tags: back to school, business casual, music ties, pink floyd ties, rock ties, rolling stones ties, ties

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 Words are fun. I want to know who gets to decide when a word is officially a word. I was at a Cleveland Indians game and the other team had a guy named Chone Figgins. (his full name is Desmond DeChone Figgins ). Why do we name the first poo of a baby meconium If it’s that special why don’t we put it in a jar and sell it? Look at meconium fix this broken coffee cup! Look it’s strong enough to pull this 18 wheel truck! Likewise why do we need to name certain body parts. Do we really need the word Taint? apparently the Taint used be called the perineum. Was that not good enough? Shouldn’t words be taken into committee to see if we really need the word? Be sure to tell your daughters to threaten a “kick to the taint” to pressing males. When they go “a what?” they can then run away.

I still hate Elvis. We all know Little Richard was the king of Rock and Roll and the Beatles and Elvis stole it all from him. I still hate Star Trek

John Lennon liked words…..and acid, but that’s another podcast.

Having a bad day? Too hot for you? Go grab a box fan and a towel. I’ve got the cure.

Do you have a cell phone? Don’t have time to exercise? Walk and Talk people! Walk and talk took me from a size 8 to a size two! Thank you walk and talk!

When I was growing up I used to take a sheet and a box fan and sleep in a blimp. Looking back this is a bad idea. Sounds like a great way to lose a finger.

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Tags: Chone Figgins, meconium, taint, Words

My Cousin’s memorial service was people explaining how Shawn was “being Shawn” and tale after tale on what a great friend he was, and how he just didn’t care for rules. He definitely would color “outside the lines.”

So as I walked away from the service I thought, “I could stand be to a bit more bold.” I don’t want to be rude, but there are times when I’m sitting at the key counter of life being ignored that I need to stand up and say HEY! MAKE MY KEY!

In my latest class I’m learning that there are no more illegal immigrants. Now we have undocumented immigrants. PAH-LEASE! It’s called illegal. I L L E G A L. I had a friend who marriedan “undocumented immigrant” and one day with his daughter watching immigration came and took him back to Mexico. If he was simply “undocumented” could they have not just said “Oh here you are” and documented it and let him stay? NO! He was ILLEGALLY in the country.

The Nurse is now on my phone plan. oooooh.

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Tags: Assertiveness, Customer Service, Illegal Immigrants