I'm no snitch, nor am I going to hold back. I am getting a bad black cloud inside me
and I may not be saying something as pleasant or warm as I usually say, but it will be very honest.
If you're a friend or a loved one I'd suggest you run off now & send me a comment; what I will exhibit will be the evil-Julian I keep under lock-and-key, in written form so that if someone wants to hide my obscenity it's easily destroyed. If you want to know more read on, and if not slip away quietly ...
5 ...
4 ...
3 ...
Point of no return ... 2.
1. And thus we begin.
I was at a school today and noshing on my lunch, sitting quietly and waiting to see who's going to enter the lounge. I really don't care about making friends, despite my open-nature, and whoever is there is there. Noone comes to greet me, and I just smile and accept the quiet room ignoring me without a second thought. As I eat I am listening to a woman tell a story about her friends' daughter failing the TAKS reading portion. The child passed the Math portion but not the reading portion, and her friend withdrew the child from public school and enrolled her into a private school just to avoid retaking the TAKS or the remedial classes given in the summerschool.
THEN she said, "But my friend is going to take her daughter out of that academy after she enters the 9th grade so she can drop her into high school." One of the teachers chatting gave this woman a sly grin, and said "Aaahh and by-pass the TAKS. Good. There's always a loophole." Then the pair went into overdrive laughing about this & smiling as if they had made a great discovery.
I am griping because this is what's called "High Stakes testing" which is supposed to measure a certain performance level of an average of students. In each school there should be a large percentage of students passing meaning the education they are receiving is adequate to function on many levels of social movement. Students should be able to make a show of their efforts with the testing that everyone takes. And yet, parents are seeking these 'loopholes', or moving their children out of public schools and into private academies and alternative schools where TAKS test are completely ignored for their lack of real ability to measure. I don't doubt the work placed for the effort of seeing how our children are doing, I have umbrage with how the state of Texas has students gamble with their future, stressing them and prepping them only for this test and not the real world.
Word around the water cooler is that there has been an increase in remedial classes by community colleges because students have no real writing skills, can't follow or create a clear train of thought, or use proper syntax. THIS means a large number of entering freshman are all working in classes on material they should have covered in high school FOR FREE! This means they're all falling behind quickly ... and noone's seeing that this is as big a problem as the children who slip through the cracks and never learn.
Now, when Bush was Governor here in the Lone Star state, did HE take the TAKS? Or any form of standardized testing within the parameters of what could be considered his time 'in charge'? I tried Jeeves & Google for an answer to this question, and didn't find anything tonight, so anyone who finds something similar will be rewarded with gratitude & beer or pizza. I remember the axiom of a leader was "I wouldn't make you do anything I'm not willing to do myself." Is this the Truth of are we in the Orwellian moment of "Do as I say not as I do" being the flagstaff of hypocricy for our youth and education system?!
I know I sound like a whiny asshole but I keep thinking about all the shit I put up with in being an education student, and what I'm enduring FOR FREE to maybe have a career in the future. Am I burning my bridges behind me or am I just jealous & petty about my feelings within this quagmire of bilge and waste that is education in Texas. IS it so important to gamble like this or are we wasting our fucking time at the drawing board with this horse-shit?
I am being given some bullshit handjob that I may not be allowed into the student teaching program at my university in the fall. I am on my goddamned hands-and-fucking-knees and I'm almost ready to rim the goddamned withered old bag of puss that is the dean of academics. I hated my university before and I goddamned well fucking loathe them now with the contempt usually only held for true evil like pedophiles or tax-collectors or credit card companies. VIPERS! A fucking nest of assholes and shitbags all turned on my body and soul. This means if I CAN'T get in this fall, I have to wait a fucking year! A goodamned year! If I have to wait to pass into the hands of student teaching this January instead of in August then I am bamboozled up-the-ASS!! This means I can't get a contract until I am in school, working the following fucking year of August 2009. SHIT!
I've taken every fucking class; followed every rote command and worked my ass off for free all this time and been the lackey-of-all trades in my district. Now after being in education for 10 fucking years the goddamned mother-fucking assholes at my university that I am paying are denying me a chance to work AGAIN for fucking free! FREE! I need to have an apprenticeship before I can enter professional teaching
and fill out a questionairre that begins with "Why do you want to be a teacher?"
BECAUSE I TOOK ALL THE FUCING COURSES AND SPENT $12000 ON MY EDUCATION YOU ASSHOLES!! THAT'S FUCKING WHY I WANT TO BE A TEACHER: BECAUSE I'M GONNA BE IN DEBT FOR A FUCKING CENTURY AND NEED TO MOVE THE FUCK ON AND PAY BACK SALLIE GODDAMNED MAE!!!
Maybe I need a loophole too. Get the fuck out of teaching and into a school environment for a chance to work! I need to work, period. Noone's liking my stories or chats or opinions to make me a book deal or ask for a screenplay. What else can I do BUT teach?
I hate this life. I am graduating because I want my father to have a diploma in his hands from me for a professional college degree. I don't give a flying fuck. If I could I'd graduate in absentia because Iam afraid I'd flip off my graduating class or moon the faculty.
bastards! Vipers! Scum! Communist! Shitbags!
http://www.topix.com/forum/state/tx/TLVSD7GOPHGD6ELKT
Maybe I just need to go Columbine or drip acid into the communal water system of the school - something very anarchist & cruel, like their making me the cosmic joke of the university.
Suggestions are always appreciated as well as smart-ass or dumb-ass remarks.
Always,
~j~
and I may not be saying something as pleasant or warm as I usually say, but it will be very honest.
If you're a friend or a loved one I'd suggest you run off now & send me a comment; what I will exhibit will be the evil-Julian I keep under lock-and-key, in written form so that if someone wants to hide my obscenity it's easily destroyed. If you want to know more read on, and if not slip away quietly ...
5 ...
4 ...
3 ...
Point of no return ... 2.
1. And thus we begin.
I was at a school today and noshing on my lunch, sitting quietly and waiting to see who's going to enter the lounge. I really don't care about making friends, despite my open-nature, and whoever is there is there. Noone comes to greet me, and I just smile and accept the quiet room ignoring me without a second thought. As I eat I am listening to a woman tell a story about her friends' daughter failing the TAKS reading portion. The child passed the Math portion but not the reading portion, and her friend withdrew the child from public school and enrolled her into a private school just to avoid retaking the TAKS or the remedial classes given in the summerschool.
THEN she said, "But my friend is going to take her daughter out of that academy after she enters the 9th grade so she can drop her into high school." One of the teachers chatting gave this woman a sly grin, and said "Aaahh and by-pass the TAKS. Good. There's always a loophole." Then the pair went into overdrive laughing about this & smiling as if they had made a great discovery.
I am griping because this is what's called "High Stakes testing" which is supposed to measure a certain performance level of an average of students. In each school there should be a large percentage of students passing meaning the education they are receiving is adequate to function on many levels of social movement. Students should be able to make a show of their efforts with the testing that everyone takes. And yet, parents are seeking these 'loopholes', or moving their children out of public schools and into private academies and alternative schools where TAKS test are completely ignored for their lack of real ability to measure. I don't doubt the work placed for the effort of seeing how our children are doing, I have umbrage with how the state of Texas has students gamble with their future, stressing them and prepping them only for this test and not the real world.
Word around the water cooler is that there has been an increase in remedial classes by community colleges because students have no real writing skills, can't follow or create a clear train of thought, or use proper syntax. THIS means a large number of entering freshman are all working in classes on material they should have covered in high school FOR FREE! This means they're all falling behind quickly ... and noone's seeing that this is as big a problem as the children who slip through the cracks and never learn.
Now, when Bush was Governor here in the Lone Star state, did HE take the TAKS? Or any form of standardized testing within the parameters of what could be considered his time 'in charge'? I tried Jeeves & Google for an answer to this question, and didn't find anything tonight, so anyone who finds something similar will be rewarded with gratitude & beer or pizza. I remember the axiom of a leader was "I wouldn't make you do anything I'm not willing to do myself." Is this the Truth of are we in the Orwellian moment of "Do as I say not as I do" being the flagstaff of hypocricy for our youth and education system?!
I know I sound like a whiny asshole but I keep thinking about all the shit I put up with in being an education student, and what I'm enduring FOR FREE to maybe have a career in the future. Am I burning my bridges behind me or am I just jealous & petty about my feelings within this quagmire of bilge and waste that is education in Texas. IS it so important to gamble like this or are we wasting our fucking time at the drawing board with this horse-shit?
I am being given some bullshit handjob that I may not be allowed into the student teaching program at my university in the fall. I am on my goddamned hands-and-fucking-knees and I'm almost ready to rim the goddamned withered old bag of puss that is the dean of academics. I hated my university before and I goddamned well fucking loathe them now with the contempt usually only held for true evil like pedophiles or tax-collectors or credit card companies. VIPERS! A fucking nest of assholes and shitbags all turned on my body and soul. This means if I CAN'T get in this fall, I have to wait a fucking year! A goodamned year! If I have to wait to pass into the hands of student teaching this January instead of in August then I am bamboozled up-the-ASS!! This means I can't get a contract until I am in school, working the following fucking year of August 2009. SHIT!
I've taken every fucking class; followed every rote command and worked my ass off for free all this time and been the lackey-of-all trades in my district. Now after being in education for 10 fucking years the goddamned mother-fucking assholes at my university that I am paying are denying me a chance to work AGAIN for fucking free! FREE! I need to have an apprenticeship before I can enter professional teaching
and fill out a questionairre that begins with "Why do you want to be a teacher?"
BECAUSE I TOOK ALL THE FUCING COURSES AND SPENT $12000 ON MY EDUCATION YOU ASSHOLES!! THAT'S FUCKING WHY I WANT TO BE A TEACHER: BECAUSE I'M GONNA BE IN DEBT FOR A FUCKING CENTURY AND NEED TO MOVE THE FUCK ON AND PAY BACK SALLIE GODDAMNED MAE!!!
Maybe I need a loophole too. Get the fuck out of teaching and into a school environment for a chance to work! I need to work, period. Noone's liking my stories or chats or opinions to make me a book deal or ask for a screenplay. What else can I do BUT teach?
I hate this life. I am graduating because I want my father to have a diploma in his hands from me for a professional college degree. I don't give a flying fuck. If I could I'd graduate in absentia because Iam afraid I'd flip off my graduating class or moon the faculty.
bastards! Vipers! Scum! Communist! Shitbags!
http://www.topix.com/forum/state/tx/TLVSD7GOPHGD6ELKT
Maybe I just need to go Columbine or drip acid into the communal water system of the school - something very anarchist & cruel, like their making me the cosmic joke of the university.
Suggestions are always appreciated as well as smart-ass or dumb-ass remarks.
Always,
~j~
