okay, it’s not often that i’m TRULY candid on here- teaching forces me to censor a lot of my thoughts. those of you that i talk to frequently know how i feel about some things. that said, here are four of my politically incorrect thoughts that i’ve been harboring for a while:

1. saddam hussein is going to go on a hunger strike. WHO CARES? dude, starve yourself away. we won’t miss you.

2. dick cheney looks like elmer fudd. and this whole accidental shooting thing did not help his image.

3. why can’t we catch osama bin laden? this dude sends us tapes of himself ALL THE TIME warning us about what he’s gonna do. he’s got our MAILING ADDRESS and we can’t catch him. way to go, US! so much for being powerful…

4. no matter how you cut it, condoleeza rice is BLACK. it don’t matter if she’s republican or secretary of state, she’s still BLACK. her name is CONDOLEEZA!?! so much for that study that says that people with more ethnic names won’t get jobs. the only thing white about her is her last name- RICE.

*feel free to leave COMMENTS with your own politically incorrect thoughts…i’ll add them to the post!*

i started out with 32 students over 2 class periods.

*1 is pregnant
*1 is getting married
*1 has been sent to jail
*1 is an ESL student
*2 have dropped out
*5 are special-ed students

so now i’m at 29 students over 2 class periods. 15 in one class, 14 in another. on a good day, i can expect to see 25 of my students. today was an exceptionally good day. i saw 28 of them.

i teach 10th-12th graders. their inability to write would scare you. somewhere down the line, they thought that sentences has some relationship to the lines on a paper (e.g.: write 5 sentences about public goods = write 2-3 lines on a sheet of notebook paper about public goods).

and you wonder why i’m always tired…