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by The Prince
Mar 9, 2004
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Hello Posters,
Your posts have given me a well-needed laugh today. I am a
retired principal (4 years retired) and you brought back a
memory from 1998. I had a second grader, (fictitious name
will be Mia) who was a real hand full. She had a severe
case of lupus and many times her medication would cau...See More/blockquote>
Hello Posters,
Your posts have given me a well-needed laugh today. I am a
retired principal (4 years retired) and you brought back a
memory from 1998. I had a second grader, (fictitious name
will be Mia) who was a real hand full. She had a severe
case of lupus and many times her medication would cause
extreme mood swings. The teachers called her my little girl
because she was from a dysfunctional family and my heart
just went out to her. I would intervene many times to keep
her in school until she was manageable and could be
returned to school. My intervention actually began in first
grade and by the time she was a second grader, she was
doing much better in the behavior category (still had a
long way to go). Now for the funny part.
We had a partnership with the Sears Retired Volunteers.
Every year they would give our second graders a book bag
filled with school supplies at the start of the school
year. In 1998, they gave all of the children a small pair
of scissors with pointed edges. As you know, that is a no-
no. We took all of the scissors and replaced them with the
blunt edged scissors (so we thought).
The next day, Mia's teacher brings her and another student
to my office. Mia had gotten upset and tried to poke the
other student (a boy) with the scissors. I told both of
them to sit down at the Peace Table (in my office) while I
talk to the teacher. Both sat down; Mia's seriously pouting
with much attitude. I'm thinking that they are the ones
that we had replaced. When the teacher gave me the
scissors, I couldn't believe my eyes. They were a long pair
of tailor's shears with long blades and a sharp point.
Now, I'm upset. I ask her firmly, "Mia! You've could have
hurt him severely with these scissors. You know what we've
talked about when you get upset and angry" (Sidebar: Mia
had a habit of throwing objects in class occasionally).
"He was looking at me and laughing at my hair!" she
exclaimed, "I was tired of him!" I continued with a firm
posture and more guidance before dealing with consequences.
Then I asked her the question. "Where did you get these
scissors from anyway!" All of a sudden the anger turned
into a search for an acceptable answer. As she sought for
the appropriate response, she remembered the scissor
exchange from the day before..."From Sears. They were in my
Sears Book Bag," she answers. I looked at her and told her
directly, "Mia, you're lying. We took all of your scissors
and exchanged them for the safe scissors and-" "But nobody
took Mine," she interrupted. "I still had mine."
I then told her, "Mia, you're still lying. The scissors
that Sears had in the bookbags were NOT this color and they
were NOT THIS BIG!" Realizing she was caught in her lie and
not wanting to get in trouble, she did what most kids her
age would do. She told a bigger lie. Are you ready for
this? She looked me in the eye with a look of innocence and
sincerity and replied, "They Grew."
The teacher and I left my office, retreated into the
hallway and laughed so hard that others looked at us as
though we'd lost it. After composing ourselves, we returned
to my office to confront Mia again. Before I could open my
mouth Mia said with even greater sincerity, "Really they
Did!" Needless to say, the teacher and I retreated to the
hallway to finish where we'd left off.
Mia is not her real name but the incident is true. We told
the faculty at the meeting the story the following day and
there was not a dry eye in the meeting from the hysteria.
The Prince (retired principal-Chicago Public Schools)
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Well this is just as funny to me as the day it happened. .
. . . Back when I was student teaching at a 4and 5 year old
Pre-Kindergarten School, I ha dthese group of kids who were
very jovial and upbeat. Now my mentor told me that when it
was time for the students to go home I was supposed to put
these colored...See More/blockquote>
Well this is just as funny to me as the day it happened. .
. . . Back when I was student teaching at a 4and 5 year old
Pre-Kindergarten School, I ha dthese group of kids who were
very jovial and upbeat. Now my mentor told me that when it
was time for the students to go home I was supposed to put
these colored necklaces on their necks, so that they can be
identified when their bus is called. Well, I would do that
everyday, and sometimes I could here the adults call the
buses and sometimes I couldn't because we were at the end
of the hallway and it was noisy. So the children would
repeat who they heard. There were children who had white
necklaces and outside the door I would hear the students
repeat, "white bus!", Then I had like, a green and yellow
necklace graoup and they would say, "green and yellow bus!"
But every day when it was time for the children who had on
these pink and gray necklaces, the student's would say,
"Marvin Gaye bus!" And I would ask the students what was
the name of their bus and they would, say with twinkling
eyes, "Marvin Gaye." For the life of me I couldn't
understand why they called the bus that! Since the school
was majority African American I thought that, hey, maybe
they like keep things real hip so they dedicated one bus to
a great black musican .. . . . . . . . Well one day, about
two three weeks into student teaching we didn't here the
children in the hallway call the Marvin Gaye Kids, and they
almost missed their bus. So I looked out the door and said,
"Hey! Have yall called the Marvin Gaye bus yet????!!!" And
the Principal down at the hall yelled back, "Marvin Gaye
Bus?? !!!!!!! Naw!!! They are the MAUVE AND GRAY BUS!!!!!!
Hurry up and send those kids!!" I was sooooooooooooo
embarrased. The necklaces were not pink and gray they were
mauve and gray!
by Hannah Jones
Mar 26, 2004
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ONE DAY MY SON CAME HOME AND TOLD ME THIS:
ABOY TOLD ME WHERE A BABY COMES FROM!
WERE?
A LADIES' BUTT!
OH MY! WE ARE TALKING TO YOUR TEACHER RIGHT NOW! COME ON!
by P Gilbert
Mar 29, 2004
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Anyone have a funny retirement letter tosend to a
superintendent. I have taught over 30 years......
by The Prince
Apr 4, 2004
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Hey Posters,
Someone posted this in the chat center. It's hilarious. I
thought it would be appropriate to repeat on this board. I
added a few revisions. Hope he or she doesn't mind. Enjoy
the humor.
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NCLB's New National Test for Kids
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Hey Posters,
Someone posted this in the chat center. It's hilarious. I
thought it would be appropriate to repeat on this board. I
added a few revisions. Hope he or she doesn't mind. Enjoy
the humor.
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NCLB's New National Test for Kids
In conjunction with school districts & teachers unions all
fifty states, the federal government under new NCLB
guidelines has designed and released a comprehensive new
student testing program, with nationwide implementation
scheduled for the upcoming school year. It will be called
the Federal Arithmetic and Reading Test (FART).
All students who cannot pass a FART in the second grade
will be retested in grades 3, 4, and 5, until such time as
they are capable of achieving a FART score of 80%.
If a student does not successfully FART by the 5th grade,
that student shall be placed in a separate English
program, the Special Mastery Elective for Language
Learning (SMELL), then reevaluated for FARTs.
If, after this increased SMELL program, the student still
cannotpass the required FART, he may still move on to
middle school by taking a one semester course in
Comprehensive Reading and Arithmetic Preparation (CRAP).
(One high government official has proposed administering
this exam to all teachers as well, to ensure that they
could pass a CRAP test. However, there seems to be some
blockage to this.)
However, if by age 14 the student still cannot FART,
SMELL, or CRAP, he may yet earn his promotion through an
intensive one week seminar, the Preparatory Reading for
Unprepared Nationally Exempted Students (PRUNES). It is
the opinion of the NEA and AFT teachers unions that a
concentrated, two-week long course of PRUNES should enable
any student to successfully FART, SMELL, and CRAP.
Hopefully this explanation will clear the air of any
misconceptions about the purpose of FARTs in the schools.
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