"Take me Higher, higher, baby can you feel it?"

what you know about that BTNH?!!!!


So tomorrow's gonna be 4/20...2010...and some time at the end of the day my class done REEKED of weed more so than normal...and it's not like i necessarily IGNORE the fact that some (many) of my youth in my charge find ways to get high between passing periods...but damn, it ain't 4/20 yet!

It's a "chronic" problem (*cough* *cough*) that we teachers do acknowledge, but it's tough for me to kick kids out of my class who are so...quiet...and obedient...and work so hard on their assignment and do so fucking well in it...even if they do smell a lil weedy...I don't trip too much about it but I do talk to my kids about understanding that...there's a time, and there's a place...and school ain't necessarily the place or the time for that business...anyways...

When my kids asked me what I was gonna do for 4/20 I said I was sure as hell NOT SMOKIN...I took the time to tell my kids that I had quit smoking altogether a good while ago (since 2007 if not some time in early '08 would be my last? as for the weedies...damn)...i used to be hella straightxedge, wouldn't smoke, wouldn't drink...then life took a shit on me and I smoked like a chimney and drank like a fish...I did clean up real well a few years back and encouraged them to quit while they're still young cuz it's HELL on the lungs! Funny that they were like, "YEAH, I'MMA QUIT TOMORROW FOR REAL THOUGH, I'M BOUT TO HIT BOUT 50 BLUNTS TONIGHT HAHAHA!" Yeah dat.

Anyways, it's Monday, I got lots on my plate...

The teacher grind continues...I got a few missions to take care of...

Winding down the last 8.5 weeks of school I feel like it's going to be a long stretch, but then I also feel like I don't got no time to finish all what I have to finish!

I ain't going to spend this blog space to recap every damn thing I did the past eight or nine months with my youth, but from here on out (for the week) here's the plan:

THIS WEEK (4/19-23): Finish LORD OF THE FLIES...we're down to the last two chapters, and we're fixin to watch the movie (B/W first, then with time. the color next week...which brings me to next week...)

...other things on the docket...
-Cal State University ERWC unit (of my creation)...the focus: Teen Violence...and we've been losing too many of them lately here in Oaktown...just this past weekend, the Federation lost one of its own (Media Academy's) and the outpouring of grief was evident in many students...they put up gigantic posters in memory of him all in front of the main office by the courtyard...so poignant yet so damn heartbreaking...
-CALIFORNIA STANDARDS TESTS (CSTs)
-Elie Wiesel's Night....
-The End of the Year

Let's make this shit happen.

Happy times,

~el M.