Somewhere in your neighborhood tonight, a teacher is working . . .

May 11, 2013

Somewhere tonight a teacher is grading

. . . and noting the quote mark should be outside the comma, “free time,” but grading on the thought and not the punctuation, this time. From The Teachers’ Room on Facebook.

And in Texas, Attorney General Greg Abbott , the Tea Party, and CSCOPE critics are scheming to get that teacher fired, calling him or her a “communist,” mischaracterizing his or her religion as Islam instead of the Baptist he or she has been all his life, and claiming she or he is trying to tear down America for Obama, despite having voted Republican in every presidential election since he could vote.

He (or she) doesn’t need your sympathy.  He needs justice, and he needs you to help your children with their homework, and read to them and support them in learning about life.  Justice probably won’t come the teacher’s way, but he or she will consider it a good deal if your child learns, and does well.

Could we stop with the injustice, though?

 

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Teacher Appreciation Week 2008, October 11-19

October 12, 2008

Show a teacher some sort of appreciation this week, will ya?

Barnes and Noble offers 25% off of most books for personal or classroom use, and 10% off of CDs and DVDs, to teachers.  Teachers, you can buy your own appreciation gifts.

Barnes and Noble logo for Educator Appreciation Week 2008

Barnes and Noble logo for Educator Appreciation Week 2008

Starbucks in Dallas offered a free cup of coffee to teachers every Monday in September.  What other goodies are there out there for teachers?

Dallas teachers are looking for good buys.  Layoff announcements should come this week — Educator Appreciation Week.

Is there an Academy Award for irony in a supporting role?

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Substitute’s teaching job magically disappears!

May 5, 2008

This is teacher appreciation week, Tuesday is National Teacher Day. I sometimes wonder if education administrators mis-hear the announcement, and think it is teacher depreciation week.

In Land-o-Lakes, Florida, in Pasco County, a substitute teacher was fired for doing a magic trick. The district, apparently lacking in critical reasoning skills and reality-based life, accused the guy of “wizardry.”

Once the firing became public and the district started to look really, really stupid, the district came up with other reasons for the firing which they announced to reporters, but not to the teacher. Janie Porter at Tampa Bay’s Channel 10 News has the story.

Substitute teacher Jim Piculas does a 30-second magic trick where a toothpick disappears then reappears.

But after performing it in front of a classroom at Rushe Middle School in Land ‘O Lakes, Piculas said his job did a disappearing act of its own.

“I get a call the middle of the day from head of supervisor of substitute teachers. He says, ‘Jim, we have a huge issue, you can’t take any more assignments you need to come in right away,'” he said.

When Piculas went in, he learned his little magic trick cast a spell and went much farther than he’d hoped.

“I said, ‘Well Pat, can you explain this to me?’ ‘You’ve been accused of wizardry,’ [he said]. Wizardry?” he asked.

Wizardry? Shouldn’t the guy be made teacher of the year for a demonstration of wizardry?

Wizardry may be unappreciated in the teacher ranks, but the rank of the administrators sure do a good job with lizardry.

Tip of the old scrub brush to P. Z. Myers, on the lookout for Florida zaniness as always.

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!

Teacher appreciation day graphic

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