It's Friday... Chicago Public Schools are off today.... We are not...
I have 2 students in my class at the moment - one started with us on Monday, the other started today. None of my regulars are here. I hope it will be a slow day.

out of curiosity, does anyone know a good place to look for a grant to start an after-school martial arts program? I am doing the research myself, but thought someone out there might already have an idea.

well, it's that time again. In about an hour I meet my Advisory (Homeroom) class. I won't meet my actual math students until Thursday. Hopefully things go better than they did last year.

Student: Mr. N, you didn't teach me how to do this ( Read more... )

It's teacher appreciation day ( Read more... )

In addition to the joys of my last post, one of the other students was arrested over Spring Break. It seems he was arrested for shooting 2 people and is wanted as a suspect in the shooting of 3 others.

So last week was Spring Break. I had a very enjoyable week spent sitting around the apartment doing nothing much productive. Today, I dragged myself out of bed, came back to work, and discovered that the school has 1 less student. One of our students made the local news by killing a 14 month old baby.

words fail me at this point...

I'm happy that the school bought LCD projectors for all the classrooms. Nice, small projectors that are locked to a rolling cart that lives in each classroom. If I go on You Tube and search for a video on how to pop that sort of lock, I discover that popping the locks only requires a plastic Bic pen ( Read more... )

A student walked into my class 10 minutes late yesterday. He proceeded to walk up to one of the girls, talk to her a moment, and walked back out of the room. (infraction 1 - leaving the room without permission). He then walked back in a minute later and hands her a bag of chips from the vending machine (infraction 2 - students are not supposed to ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, I gave my students a list of the work they were missing. I told them the deadline to submit this work was last Friday. This morning a student wanted to talk to me about his packet of missing work ( Read more... )