tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10757771.post1774529338746529165..comments2023-09-22T09:03:09.417-04:00Comments on Townie Bastard: A happy notetowniebastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03129158923604362272noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10757771.post-30001574003655700332009-06-29T11:29:52.517-04:002009-06-29T11:29:52.517-04:00Very nice. It is always nice to get the recogniti...Very nice. It is always nice to get the recognition for a job that often feels thankless. I cherish an ad that a family put in the paper thanking me for doing my job during the tragic death of their daughter/sister. I used it as a touchstone on my desk for the days when things were wearing me down.<br /><br />And I'm with you, I've long admired teachers, and a lot of that admiration comes from the recognition that I'm not cut of that cloth, that it is a job I could not do. I briefly supply taught after my retirement and it drove me nuts. But I was used to choking out people that annoyed me and throwing them in gaol afterwards.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10757771.post-57130426037240410082009-06-29T10:53:15.431-04:002009-06-29T10:53:15.431-04:00Teaching is even more difficult to blog about, bec...Teaching is even more difficult to blog about, because you have to be so bloody careful when you are dealing with other people's kids.<br /><br />All I know is that I have seen the quality at that school in particular go up in thye last three years. Maybe I'm biased, because our attendee seems to be on a streak of having better years each year, but we think it is getting better over there.<br /><br />HOwever, I would NEVER teach Junior High aged kids. A friend is leaving to go do just that. I asked her "WHY THE HELL would you put yourself in hormone land?"<br /><br />"They are so cute at that age."<br /><br />If by cute, you mean lethal and criminally insane, then yes, that sure is cute.KOTNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00218426092498055798noreply@blogger.com