tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9468715.post8978671180668422987..comments2024-03-15T00:28:08.150-07:00Comments on Slight Detour: Huckleberry Hound has chased me downMLovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05821062147483953813noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9468715.post-26867421831544739582007-05-17T05:47:00.000-07:002007-05-17T05:47:00.000-07:00Arpie,Ah, do we have memories of those good ol' da...Arpie,<BR/><BR/>Ah, do we have memories of those good ol' days of CEO's, et. al. If you read my responses, you'll see one of the things I DON'T miss about teaching is the politics, and I'd say during that time you mentioned the politics was at its best. I don't remember the "moldy cheese" terminology, but it could be among the many strange terms coined out of frustration with some of the dysfunctional political scenes I witnessed during my 33-year career with the district. <BR/><BR/>I empathize with your frustrations at watching students self-destruct, and, in the brief period for questioning yesterday, it was difficult to go at length at responding to some questions. <BR/><BR/>I have seen some of those cases, to which you referred, turn around and rise out of their desperate situations, and I can't help but wonder if someone didn't come along somewhere along their way to point them a direction, offer them hope and support them in their efforts.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, there were the very sad cases, especially with drug problems, that continued to spiral downhill. We all do our best to rescue them in whatever ways we can, but the reality is that we just can't save everyone who comes through our classroom.<BR/><BR/>We just continue to do our best.MLovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05821062147483953813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9468715.post-18197640053014294552007-05-16T22:12:00.000-07:002007-05-16T22:12:00.000-07:00> "What did you and/or your fellow teachers do to ...> "What did you and/or your fellow teachers do to Larry Spencer when he was your student to turn him into such a rabid, foaming anti-public school attack pomeranian?"<BR/><BR/>She tought me to question things without accepting a pre-packaged answer as fact and fight for the truth even if it means being called nasty names.<BR/><BR/>yep, it's all her fault.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9468715.post-86206341181431066922007-05-16T21:31:00.000-07:002007-05-16T21:31:00.000-07:00Marianne,I sure didn’t mean to stump you. The ter...Marianne,<BR/><BR/>I sure didn’t mean to stump you. The term moldy cheese layer goes back to a committee I sat on with you and a former superintendent, actually I believe he called himself Chief Executive officer because, it turned out he didn’t even have a college degree. I think he called it a faculty advisory committee. Anyway, he once got us all talking about Sandpoint and what it takes to pass a levy in this town. I don’t remember what it was, but he came up with a really lame metaphor comparing the anti levy folks to something really weird. This got me to thinking and in an e-mail to him, I came up with an even worse metaphor comparing the citizens of Sandpoint to a lasagna. I went on to say that Sandpoint’s lasagna while mostly delicious has a layer of moldy cheese. In this I was referring to the meth heads and unparented kids that seem to make up an ever-increasing part of our school population. If you taught mostly honors classes, you may not have dealt with them as much. I’m talking about the kids that are on the verge of being uneducable because of their lousy attitudes toward school and, it seems, life in general. <BR/><BR/>The girl I saw the other day brought this home to me again. She was in front of the library after school hanging with her friends and joking - a typical 15-year-old except for the baby in a car seat that she was swinging around. How different her life is now and in the future than her peers. And in 7 short years that baby will probably be in my classroom. You’re right in that a teacher has to learn that you can’t save them all. But at the same time I get paid to try to help the ones in my class and I get up every day and do just that. <BR/><BR/><BR/>Anyway, Nice job on the interview today. I like the little dig you got in at the spokesman by not mentioning them in talking about Sndpoint journalism. I sure miss their office here.<BR/><BR/>ArpieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9468715.post-58661131709667125872007-05-16T16:30:00.000-07:002007-05-16T16:30:00.000-07:00Hi, Cis,It's all on Huckleberries; check it out. M...Hi, Cis,<BR/><BR/>It's all on Huckleberries; check it out. <BR/><BR/>MarianneMLovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05821062147483953813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9468715.post-5069293105328708872007-05-16T15:04:00.000-07:002007-05-16T15:04:00.000-07:00Show how dense I am... I thought they were talking...Show how dense I am... I thought they were talking about the odor that came from the cheese factory on Lake. lol..<BR/>So how do you feel about home schooling... and if you were not a teacher, what would you have like to have been?Word Tosserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03519547102435672497noreply@blogger.com