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Reply to Depressed Fifth Grade Class in Misc JoeUser Forums

PF, I didn't mean to strike such a nerve with you. I love this country. My political view aren't really important, but they are more left than yours, I'd guess, and they weren't through any indoctrination, but instead through a lot of reading. I don't loathe this country's symbols. Every country deserves a representaion in a classroom though. (PS: your point would have been better taken without the personal attacks) The reason I'm so upset w

Reply to Depressed Fifth Grade Class in Misc JoeUser Forums

This student IS "special education." I understand that this child will have areas where they weill need IEPs. I thought the way the teacher used the term special education in relation to the child was ridiculous. She said, 'She's special education' like that's all she is. The student does fine in mat

Power Loving Teacher Wants African American Students in Misc JoeUser Forums

Something that Marcie Helen said reminded me of a conversation I had with my lead teacher. We were talking about the changing demographics in the area that this school is located. Ten or so years ago, most of the school's population was African American. Now, it's about 1/3 Hispanic, 1/6 African American and 1/2 Caucasian. My point is coming now. She said

Reply to Depressed Fifth Grade Class in Misc JoeUser Forums

That sounds awful. How is she allowed to continue teaching if she treats the kids this way? I don't know. Other people keep saying it is because she is tenured. Still though, you'd think one of these kids would go home and tell their parents some of this stuff and their parents would make some kind of

Reply to American Idiot in Politics JoeUser Forums

I feel ya! You're so on with "It'd riddled with conservative slant and underhanded character judgments". I just started using this site, so there is no JU elder in me, but in just a few days of poking around I did notice that Draginol is all over the place and there does seem to be an awful lot of liberal bashing going on...not to say the two are connected...I don't see that much conservative bashing going on though. Maybe the people that t

Reply to The arrogance of the left in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I agree and I already said so. Both sides have sheeps who have been swept up in populism. The Left does not have exclusive rights to it. The reason the Right is characterised as having more of these people is because the Right has more support overall. This fact meant that the Right probably couldn't help but mainly pick up a who

Reply to Are you a Nazi if you support Bush? in Politics JoeUser Forums

As if they have a valid reason for their zealous hatred? Nobody knows if they hate this guy, and they wouldn't have a reason to. It sounds like they are anit-Bush and they shouldn't have done that, but that doesn't matter. Responding (and initiating on their part) in a violent way is unacceptable. Ma

Reply to Are you a Nazi if you support Bush? in Politics JoeUser Forums

You can't be serious. It isn't very thoughtful to make statements that start with 'people like that' or to make assumptions about what people would say if you asked them a question about their reasoning.

Depressed Fifth Grade Class in Misc JoeUser Forums

For the last two weeks before school started this fall, I was sent as a student teacher to an elementary school. I didn't have a choice which school or grade I would be assigned to. It was luck of the draw. I ended up in a fifth grade class room. I had two weeks alone with the techer before the students would arrive. In those two weeks, I saw only the tip of what

What do you do when your hand won't write? in Welcome JoeUser Forums

After journaling for years in pen, pencil, crayon, and whatever else there was, I can't write on paper anymore. The desire is gone, and worse, it makes me get the same feeling that I used to when I was home sick from school watching ET for the 100th time. This wasn't sudden. This has been coming on for two years or so. My journal sits next to my bed. It used to sit o