In all of my brilliant wisdom I once again decided to do the ASP drill with my students. Stupid me - instead of getting a PVC pipe from Home Depot to use in place of the real ASP - I of course used the real ASP. Last semester when I did this lab, a special ed student almost hit me in the head - almost died - most of you would have not cared if I had - in fact you guys would be rejoicing. Back to my story..... This time one of my best academic students completely did it wrong and hit me with all of her strength on my upper right arm. I thought I had died!!!!!!!!!!! Of course, my wife who is a Certified Athletic Trainer and EMT, already thinks I am a poopy baby. I have a huge knot that has emerged. I am sure that by Saturday you guys will see a nice colorful upper arm. You would think that at the age of 53 I would know better - I guess not.
Anyways, highlights of my week................ caught a student in my first period class completely high, completely messed up my advisement, had my wife fix my advisement mistakes (now I owe her), had 1/3 of my students out of class of Graduation Test Remediation (how do I effectively teach when my students are missing), lost my wallet and of course "broke" my arm.
Looking forward to seeing you all on Saturday!!!!!!!!!!
Well Steve like my dad always told me (and it truly applies to me) "If you gonna be dumb you gotta be tough!!!" hehehehehehe hope the arm feels better i've been there
ReplyDeletePhew! Sounds like you had a rough week. I hope your arm feels better too.
ReplyDeleteI see you have the issue of your students getting pulled out for remediation. Well, in Januray, they made remediation a class and pulled all of my juniors and senior out of my class for remediation. They only took the kids out of their tech classes. Anyway, testing starts this week and the student want to come back to my class, but the counselor has told every last one of them that my classes are full. How fair is it to those students that really want to be in the class? Also, where are they going to go and what about those student that have work based learning and have to be in a tech class? Sometimes, I wonder where they get these people that make these decisions without actually getting some input from the teachers sometimes.
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