Dear Reader,
I instigated this blog a few months ago, planning to use my summer to share my most humorous teaching anecdotes to date. Then this fear overtook me: Why must the first post have so much pressure to be amazing? It probably doesn't, but then again, most of you know me. I also have an intense fear that, because I'm an English teacher, if I make a grammatical or even a stylistic error, I may be burned in effigy.
And so I begin today because I have something to say.
If you haven't heard, there is quite a frenzy here in Utah concerning Obama giving a speech to students on Tuesday. Wow. Parents are up in arms that their kids might be subjected to our president's liberalism. I don't know about you, but I remember listening to presidents that my parents didn't agree with, but if our president was speaking, we sure wanted to hear what he had to say, if only to spark debate and -- oh, I don't know -- democracy. What are these parents afraid of? That he might tell our students to work hard and stay in school? Damn those liberal elitists!
So today, our principal got on the intercom. She informed the students what was coming Tuesday. As teachers, we have to email her ASAP to tell her if we are showing the speech. Then we had to send a runner down to the office to pick up an excusal form for all students whose parents won't want them to see it. We must provide an alternative assignment.
A funny aside, I show Kennedy, Reagan, and King speeches later in the year and have done so for a few years now. Should I be getting excusal forms for those?
So there it is: first post -- check! I hope that this will be a lot funnier and less political in the future.
6 comments:
Looking good. That's a hot picture of you!
Oh my goodness! How do you know that I needed to see something like this. Lezli just forwarded me the link and I about fell of my chair. I'm showing it in class tomorrow for sure!
Wow, it's about time! I can hardly wait to hear those funny stories that we pick up teaching. This could be another "Up the Down Staircase" (Sorry, that's way too old for you).
Now, get a real picture of yourself.
Yeah! Kate I'm excited to partake in your stream of consciousness.
All the kids will love Obama if it means they get a day of a school to stay home and listen to Gayle Resecka.
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