Trying to rally middle school students is an interesting endeavor. Usually it takes an orchestrated event on level with the Oscars or, a miracle. We, as in my team and myself, have come up with a Survivor theme to help the students and more specifically us, SURVIVE the rest of the year. [...]
Entries from March 2007
March 22, 2007
It Takes A Village…
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Someone told me to write what I know. I know middle school. Let me know what you think of the new strip.
March 19, 2007
New Strip Part 2…
Okay…..I had a little more fun than I should have, since it was St. Patrick’s Day and all. The new strip will be debuting later this week. In the meantime, I will have an Easter theme cartoon in the next day or two for the Chewing Pencils Easter Cartoon Contest. Be sure [...]
March 16, 2007
New Strip
I am currently working on a new strip that I hope to unveil on Monday, March 19. Check back then. It will be an uncensored look at life as a middle school teacher! In the mean time Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
March 15, 2007
How to Start A Day…
If your day starts out like this just go home and go back to bed. Teenagers think that adults, especially teachers and parents do not have feelings. They are robots that exist in a vacuum unable to be penetrated by their barbed diatribes or outbursts. Oh how they are wrong!
March 14, 2007
Homework….What homework?!
Some questions are just so ridiculous you are just not sure what to do with them and you stand there in that moment and so many possible answers stream through your head and you wish you could say them all but your left stunned and you must be politically correct. I have always wanted [...]
March 13, 2007
Stupid Meetings
Meetings are not fun. Especially when the meeting is taking place after a full work day AND it is on the first full glorious day of spring time weather. The high today should reach a balmy 76 degrees with a cloudless sky. I will be stuck inside a middle school library discussing [...]
March 12, 2007
Spring….
Spring is certainly on the way. The weather is warming up and little buds are popping up all over. Isn’t it amazing that 60 degrees at the beginning of March is a heat wave but in the middle of summer it’s a little “chilly”? Whatever the case may be, the weather here [...]
