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Listing ID: 909
Title: Three Standard Deviations To The Left
Description: A high school mathematics teacher rambles on about his day.
Category: Education & Training
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listed on: June 07, 2008 08:04:20 PM
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Recent Posts:
| Extracurriculars - Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:13:00 +0000 |
| I have a student who is a hockey player - I guess she's pretty good at hockey, but she puts no effort into her math at all. Near the end of the quarter I met with her mom and we talked about her grades (she barely has the required GPA to play) and how she would need to do better when hockey practices start. My contention was that if the student couldn't handle school without hockey, I can hardly see how she will do with it. We decided that the student could come in and see me for help once a week. All was well for two whole weeks. But this week I get a call from the mom. She tells me that the girl had her first practice the night before and she felt that her daughter should sleep in and not come for help because she's tired. ONE DAY and she already can't handle both. |
| Funnies - Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:33:00 +0000 |
One, from another teacher:Teacher (to a student whose pants were sagging) "Hey, pull your pants up...I don't want to see any brown"Two - I usually don't post things here from other places, and I'm unsure as to whether the following isn't just something that was made up, but I found it nonetheless. "Draw a picture of what you want to do when you grow up"  If you are a seasoned teacher, you won't be too surprised. Maybe you'll be even more surprised to find out that the mother of the child works at Home Depot and sells shovels there. |
| Reading Ahead - Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:44:00 +0000 |
When you are driving, you need to look up ahead so you don't get yourself into trouble. Same goes for filling out forms. I'll call it defensive reading. |