It happens...

I'm a 20-something year old trying to find my way in the world. I'm also a teacher who appreciates all the little things in life. My posts are random, and I love it.

Thoughts…

I need some clarity in my life badly. Its foggy and I hate the fog!

Two jobs

Today was my second teacher workday. Today was also my first day picking up lifeguarding shifts at a neighborhood pool after school. I have been working since 8 o’clock this morning and I feel so mentally drained. Due to financial reasons I am forcing myself to work a second, part time job, after school and on weekends during the school year. Today was my first experience with this and I feel like I haven’t gotten a chance to breathe today until just now. I can’t decide if this is a good thing or something that will catch up to me in the next couple of days. I do know I need to get used to it!

After instituting abstinence-only sex ed., Texas has the highest teen birth rate in the nation

teachingtoday:

bringtheruckuss:

Texas lawmakers cut sex ed from two six-month courses to a single unit of “abstinence only” education. But early indications showed that the program wasn’t working. In fact, teens in almost all high school grades were having more sex after undergoing the abstinence only program. By 2007, Texas had the highest teen birth rate in the nation.

File this under “duh”

Teachers and schools tend to mistake good behavior for good character. What they prize is docility, suggestibility; the child who will do what he is told; or even better, the child who will do what is wanted without even having to be told. They value most in children what children least value in themselves. Small wonder that their effort to build character is such a failure; they don’t know it when they see it.

—John Holt, How Children Fail

I want to frame this in my classroom

(Source: teachingtoday)