Michelle on Jan 31 2007 | Filed under: The Personal
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!So it turns out that Pell Grants are a cause of divorce. I was filling out Sky’s paperwork for college next fall, and ran into some problems. When I called the support line, I was told that I had […]
Michelle on Jan 26 2007 | Filed under: The Teaching
I don’t know him. He has been to class three times and has done nothing but sleep each time. Today, I felt fed up with his refusal to do anything but warm the chair. The principal tried talking to him, but also got no response, and so she told him she would be calling his […]
Michelle on Jan 26 2007 | Filed under: The Teaching
Today, I had one of those moments that makes a teacher’s heart go pitter-patter. One of my students, who is about to be 18 and is in 10th grade, told me today that the book I gave him is the very first book he has ever sat down to read. It is about a boy […]
Michelle on Jan 24 2007 | Filed under: The Teaching
I got a call yesterday from a teacher at the high school. Seems they are going to expel a deaf kid who is in foster care. Lord knows what kind of hell this kid has went through and is continuing to go through. They are expelling him because they cannot handle his behavior. So, they […]
Michelle on Jan 22 2007 | Filed under: The Personal
Last year, I read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime, which was an astounding book. I have just finished reading The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon, a biologist and the mother of a teenage autistic son. I cannot recommend this last book highly enough. Not only does Moon effectively show us […]
Michelle on Jan 20 2007 | Filed under: The Fluff
1) What’s the most fun work you’ve ever done, and why?
Without a doubt, it was teaching my adult ESL class in Austin. I would leave the public school for the day, feeling beat down and exhausted, not sure how I would even stay awake for another hour, much less teach my night class. Yet […]
Michelle on Jan 19 2007 | Filed under: The Personal, The Political, The Teaching
Who is crazier, Bush or Chavez? What a crazy world of extremism we live in! Seriously, who do you think is worse? I’m having a hard time with this one… It’s sorta like the game I play with myself called “Which Is Scarier?”. The fact that 1000 kids are infected with AIDS everyday or the […]
Michelle on Jan 17 2007 | Filed under: The Teaching
Today, all of the “discipline” team members were called into the principals office for a quick meeting. It concerned a student we are getting. The student has not been expelled to our program or anything like that, he is just crazy. Meaning, he just got out of residential placement because he is 18, and because […]
Michelle on Jan 15 2007 | Filed under: The Personal, The Political
In spite of my constant discontent and scheming, I know I am right here, in this very apartment, for a reason. I think I have mentioned before that foster care is something that I am interested in. Interestingly, I am getting to experience it on a minature level of sorts.
My home has become the “after-school/weekend” […]
Michelle on Jan 13 2007 | Filed under: The Personal
Wow. Adjusting to being back on the school schedule took a bite out of me this week. I don’t know why it is so easy to adjust to staying up until two in the morning but so difficult to adjust to getting up at six, even though I have done this for years. Go figure.
After […]
