ARGH!

[danoconnor249]

OK, you wanna know why teaching is a fucked up job? You are paid to alter human behavior en masse. It's like trying to raise 30 children at a time. And they're little fuckers sometimes. So your job involves a constant breaking of the human spirit and a building back up again. And so if you're someone who is shitty at breaking people correctly

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[snowspinner]

What floor are you on? Throwing them out the window might, after all, make it so they still love you if you're only first or second floor.

defenestration

[legwork]

Remember the Defenestration of Prague? Throw them out of, like the 5th floor window, but make sure there's a 20 foot deep pile of nice, fresh manure for them to land in. They were actually grateful.

Maybe you had to be there.

[bernardthebear]

Question: What grade are you teaching, Dan?

Defenestration you say?

[disciplex]

Dan doesn't *actually* read his own Journal, he just posts on others. That's why the lazy bastard hasn't added me as a friend. That or his secret hatred for me has inadvertently come to light. I think we should de- something Dan, and I vote for de-pant (or de-skirt, depending what day of the week it is).

Re: Defenestration you say?

[danoconnor249]

This is true. Actually, I just found out how to add people as friends. For someone who grew up during the digital age, I am surprisingly slow at figuring out how any of this technology works.

[danoconnor249]

I think I answered your question in a different place on my livejournal by accident. I teach the ninth graders. We're a new school, so we only have ninth grade at this point. Next year they'll become tenth graders, we'll get a new ninth grade, and we'll hire seven or eight more teachers. That's the idea. And we do that until we have all four grades. Woot!

[bratbabymonkey]

Not a day goes by without me wanting to throw one if not all of my eighth graders out of the window. I think that means we're good teachers.

Oh, and hi!