-cracks knuckles- Time for the resident teacher to offer her views from the other side of the desk. We enforce certain rules to cover our own hides in the event that someone actually gets hurt. For example, teachers have probably scolded you in the past for leaning back in your chair. We do this because if we didn't, and you slipped and cracked your head open (or something), we'd have our asses sued off in an instant because we weren't watching you carefully enough. Sometimes state laws don't protect us, so if something happens it's automatically our fault, not the students. However, each teacher has their own certain rules they employ, it just depends on that teacher. I've seen some nasty ones in my time that would be on you if you so much as sneezed while they were talking. Still others wouldn't bat an eyelid if you tried to jump out the third floor window. And when I was a sophomore, I was given one day ISS because I was "involved" in a fight, when all I did was put my hands in front of my face to block a girl from hitting me. The principal ruled that I had technically laid my hands on her and still punished me. She got 5 days OSS, but I shouldn't have been punished at all. Yeah, it's unfair. But it was probably done to discourage me from coming after the girl who started it when she did come back. It might help to try and look at it that way. They're punishing all parties involved to discourage any future outbursts from that same group. In my own classroom, I don't allow gum and all four legs of your chair had better be on the floor. But I also teach a class of fifth graders, so I'm a bit more lenient about things because my students have proven that they can be trusted with certain privileges. We have a snack break midmorning because my students don't get a lunch until almost 12:30, so for about 20 minutes we take a break, have a snack, and unwind. Sometimes we'll add in silent reading, and the class enjoys having a chance to relax. I did this mostly because I'm hypoglycemic and usually by that times my blood sugar is low enough I sound drunk. Cell phones are allowed but they must be silent and stowed in their backpacks. They're allowed to check them at snack and recess only, which is when I'll check my own to make sure there haven't been any emergencies. For the kids, we've told parents to call the office rather than the child's cell phone in the event of an emergency, but sometimes I have difficulty seeing why as both a call from the office and a kid's ringtone are both equally disruptive during a lesson. iPod's, handheld games, etc. we only allow at recess, or for bus rides on field trips, but then those get stowed on the bus when we actually arrive at the field trip. Mario up there kind of beat me to it, but the point of the matter is you have your rules, we have ours. We have to enforce them, even if we don't like them, because it's our job and we could get fined, sued, or terminated if we didn't and something went horribly wrong.
We've already cleared the driveway off once, and that was after my tiny front-wheel drive couldn't scale the uphill path with 5 inches already on the ground. Not even switching into low did anything. I slipped back into the road, drove up the street and parked at the gas station until we could drag out the snowblower to clear it.
The bro doesn't have school tomorrow either, and they called around 7 tonight to let us know. Nice change of pace from the 5:30 phone calls they have been doing. Or in today's case, a 5:30 to say it's cancelled, followed by an 8:30 call to change it to a 2-hour delay and tell my brother he'd better be there by 9:30 (bus would have come at 9) to a call not long afterward once again confirming cancellation. I hate this district. Thankfully I don't have to teach tomorrow either. I had an early release today, cancellation tomorrow, with a slight chance of another delay Thursday.
So what you're saying here is this is really a kind of test to see how people would react to such a bill or law? That's kind of the gist I got from your post, and I'm awfully tired and should probably be sleeping rather than posting. I honestly can't see this bill passing, regardless, but I feel this is kind of a silly way to prove things like Obamacare are unconstitutional.
I already consider myself to be Axel, not just because I cosplay as him. I have a fiery temper but I get defensive if people mess with the ones I care about. I always have an unnaturally high body temp, which is normal for me. And if I'm not careful my hair can end up like those crazy spikes of his.
Do it, Ienzo, it's tons of fun catching things like that. My brother and I decided he was still playing baseball with his "son", one of the other Buzz figures from Al's Toy Barn. You'll have to rewatch that scene in Toy Story 2 to get that.
I adore this guy, I actually first found him after my anime club screened Pokemon the First Movie for a laugh, and we found his review of it on the website. That was almost a year ago. Sometimes I don't see eye to eye with him (I adored Ferngully as a young one but he tore it a new one), but I get many a good laugh out of watching him and have whiled away many dull hours. I have yet to actually watch all six parts of Kickassia.
I could argue that in a way Simba's Pride did just that, the only difference being Kovu and Kiara didn't die at the end of the movie. The animators even mention in the bonus features on the SE DVD that the play was an inspiration for the sequel.
I'm going to give this a miss, I don't have any young siblings or relatives (or offspring, thank Gord) I'd be taking to this. My fifth graders don't even seem interested in this. Only thing that amused me is that it's rated G, yet in one of the trailers one of the gnomes is wearing the Borat banana hammock swimsuit. Yeah, G rated, huh?
That Pizza Planet truck has actually been in every single Pixar movie since the first Toy Story, believe it or not. There are lists online that tell you when to look for it in each movie. /done being a Disney geek now.
Image on top is from the first Toy Story. Image on the bottom is from Toy Story 3. The shirt is a dead giveaway. He had a quick cameo, but it was enough for those with a keen eye to catch. And it kind of fits Sid, when you think about it.
I'm amused, the poll bar for the boys is a pinky red while the one for females is blue.
Just another thing I forgot to add here: remember who gets to go home and grade all that stuff after you've turned it in. Especially in high school, where teachers see four or five different classes a day. I lost many a weekend to grading a week's worth of homework assignments, and found myself asking why exactly did I assign them that stuff in the first place.
Good thing I found this thread. I am an elementary teacher now myself, and believe me, when I hear my students grumble about the assignments I give them, I do remember how it felt to have to do the same stuff they did. Here's the thing, though. As a teacher, I'm stuck with dealing with just as much stress as my students do. I have to deal with the school boards and the state education system breathing down the back of my neck if my lessons aren't meeting certain points in the state's frameworks, or if they don't cater to certain state test prep standards. They stressed this the most when I completed my student teaching practicum last spring, and I was (un)lucky enough to start teaching right before my class took their state comprehensive assessment tests. So I teach what I teach not because I feel like bringing my students down or having this overlord feeling, but because I know if I don't teach what my state wants me to teach and my students score poorly on their exams, then it's my job that gets taken from me. You mention high school, which while I understand that it does require a lot more work than elementary school did, your teachers too are probably under the same pressure as I am, even more so because high school is considered prep for college. I know sometimes it fees like they're all ganging up on you with their assignments, but you have to remember that they only have so much time to cover everything that you need to learn before the school is closed for the summer, and they can actually get in trouble if certain key topics aren't covered. Hope that helps you to see it from the other side of the teacher's desk, if you will.
According to this, I'm a Gemini now instead of a crab. Dang. Do I believe it? Not really. I don't believe a random bunch of stars is the reason behind my sucky love life yet amazing artistic talents. I brought that upon myself. Yes, even the love life bit. (well okay maybe not the love life bit)
I stopped getting flu shots, because every time I got one I still got the flu, and it would be twice as bad as I thought it would be. I did get the swine flu vaccine when that came out, simply because I wanted to be careful, and that was the only time my usual streak of getting sick from preventative measures ever broke. Nonetheless, if this really does work out, I may have to change my mindset. I thankfully didn't get swine flu when it was still in the AMG Gunna Kill Us phase (instead I got a nasty sinus infection that warranted a CAT scan at the hospital and me getting kicked off campus until it cleared up no matter how many times I told them it wasn't the bacon flu), but the idea that those who did hold a potential key for making a more potent vaccine amazes me. I just wonder why they haven't quite tried this with the "regular" flu strain.
Craigslist. Where in the world is Carmen Sandiago?
*raises hand* I remember this fondly when Toonami used to air this. I have a few volumes of the manga as well, managed to nab them for dirt cheap at an anime con. I want to get a hold of the rest (I have 1, 8, and 9 as that was all the dealer had).
I didn't think this could be true, and RvR's post shows it. No way would a guy just "choose" to shut down a multi-billion dollar website at random. If he was tired of it, he'd pass it off to someone else. Although it was kind of funny to hear my 50-year old mom start whining about how she just got some uber-rare horse in Farmville and complain that now she'll never get both of her accounts past level 100.
Logan Airport. How many people live in your house?
