Teachers @ MindSay 
school
From an email sent by my Mom:
YOU might be a school employee if you
believe the playground should be equipped with a
Ritalin salt lick.
YOU might be a school employee if you
want to slap the next person who says, 'Must be
nice to work 8 to 3:30 and have summers off.
YOU might be a school employee if it is
difficult to name your own child because there's
no name you can come up with that doesn't bring high
blood pressure as it is uttered.
YOU might be a school employee if you
can tell it's a full moon or if it going to rain,
snow, hail....anything!!! Without ever looking
outside.
YOU might be a school employee if you
believe, 'shallow gene pool' should have
its own box on a report card.
YOU might be a school employee if you
believe that unspeakable evils will befall you if
anyone says, 'Boy, the kids sure are mellow
today.'
YOU might be a school employee if when
out in public, you feel the urge to snap your
fingers at children you do not know and correct
their behavior.
YOU might be a school employee if you
have no social life between August and June.
YOU might be a school employee if you
think people should have a government permit before
being allowed to reproduce.
YOU might be a school employee if you
wonder how some parents MANAGED to reproduce.
YOU might be a school employee if you
laugh uncontrollably when people refer to the staff
room as the 'lounge.'
YOU might be a school employee if you
encourage an obnoxious parent to check into charter
schools or home schooling and are willing to donate
the UHAUL boxes should they decided to move out of
district.
YOU might be a school employee if you
think caffeine should be available in intravenous
form.
YOU might be a school employee if you
can't imagine how the ACLU could think that
covering your students chair with Velcro and then requiring
uniforms made out of the corresponding Velcro could
ever be misunderstood by the public.
YOU might be a school employee if
meeting a child's parent instantly answers the
question, 'Why is this kid like this?'
YOU might be a school employee if you
would choose a mammogram over a parent conference.
YOU might be a school employee if you
think someone should invent antibacterial pencils
and crayons...and desks and chairs for that matter!
YOU might be a school employee if the
words 'I have college debt for this?' has
ever come out of your mouth.
YOU might be a school employee if you
know how many days, minutes, and seconds are left in
the school year!
It has been a few weeks since I saw any owls while traveling down the hwys and byways. This is nesting time for the Raptors and I have seen a hawk or owl head poking out of the tops of some nest, so there hasn't been a whole lot of hawks or owls, out and about lately. So this morning was a little more painful and hands stiffer than usual , so I was having my morning coffee ,pipe, and pity party, I called out for sister owl to make an appearance today to lighten up my spirits and as soon as I spoke out and called for sister owl, she showed up within seconds, sitting on an electric pole staring at me!
"what a joy to see you this morning sister owl, thank you for letting me know that I am not alone, and that you are still around me, lending me your help."
OWL apparently is my POWER totem my Moon or night energy and the BALD EAGLE is my sun or day energy .I have two power totems it would seem.
If one follows an 'EARTH MEDICINE' PATH you will find that you have a number of helpers on one's journey and that you are never alone.
you have a BIRTH TOTEM, mine is BEAVER and it corresponds to your SUN SIGN, which is found by the date of birth, and with this totem you have a plant, stone, and color that are your helpers while you journey the wheel, you have a CLAN TOTEM, mine is TURTLE, which is the elemental EARTH,clan totem that is also found by your birth date and it also has a plant, stone and color that are yours to help, and you have a SHADOW TOTEM which sits opposite you on the Medicine wheel mine is SNAKE and it too has a plant , stone, and color .
Then you have a POWER TOTEM that is essentially YOU in all you incarnations it is the EXPRESSION of your SOUL, mine is the OWL.
You also have a LIFE THEME which is like your RISING SIGN or ASCENDANT in astrology, I am not quite sure who this is in my critter friends that are with me, it is either the HERON, ,HORSE, I am not quite sure how you find out exactly how this one is determined.
And then you have a LIFE MISSION which I would of thought was the life theme one but any hoo, it is your 'higher calling' your specific role you are in order to ful fill your purpose, and again it is one of the above 2 critters I mentioned here. Horse or Heron is either the theme or mission .
If you are interested in who your helpers are click on my bookmarks 'LIFE PATH' totems and figure out whose yours are.
I have found that working with these helpers, helps me to know I am never alone, these totems are the bridge between the SPIRIT AND EARTH realms, and bring messages over from beyond the rainbow bridge to guide, help and teach us what we need to know. Some people have 'ANGELS', apparently these are my angels, who have taken on earth critter bodies to work with me. The word 'ANGEL' means messenger, and so my angels are owls, eagles, snake, turtle, beaver,horse, heron, deer.raven/crow which is my family on my moms side clan totem which is on our family crest 3 ravens.
I first learned we have 9 totems , and I used cards to pick mine, but over the years these 9 have come to me either in dreams or in the phyiscal and it has always been these 9 that have showed up , not all together , but whoses ever the energy and lesson that I needed it would show up to deliver it.
I love working with totems so much more than with angels, because I can see them in the physical realm everyday,and since being a double earth energy person I am a double Taurus, with Aquarius rising., its the Aquarius rising that gives me the gypsy energy I have other wise I would be bogged down in the soil never rising high enough to get anything done.
for what it is worth
blessed be be a blessings
I've volunteered, made phone calls, attended meetings, sent emails and snail mails all with little success. It takes half a school year just to obtain the smallest hint of cooperation between school and home. Teachers are overwhelmed, administrators are buried under legislation, parents are left in the dark, and the students are lost in the shuffle. 'No child left behind' should not be a code for 'Push them through and shove them out'!
Over the years I have watched my children's education suffer under massive state education program changes. "Whole Language Reading" programs along with the so called "New Math" are beyond ridiculous. Such educational tools are ridiculous attempts to improve children's test scores. The idea of teaching to test would have been called CHEATING in my day. Education is not about passing tests!
Damn money to hell. It's all about funding.
Screw funding! Teachers need to return to teaching students how to learn. Useless trivia will not create well educated, intelligent adults! The popular game "Are you smarter than a fifth grader?" is an excellent example of the failure of our education system. Useless information is forgotten in the real world. Comprehension is a million times more important than the memorization of trivial facts.
If a person does not understand the how and why behind the trivial facts of history; history will simply repeat itself under the guise of new names, dates, places, and things. Nothing changes!
I'm almost ready to believe that the current state of public school education has only one goal... "The Dumbing Down of America". After all, the masses are easier to control if they lack the ability to comprehend the current state of affairs. "Government for the people, by the people..." With the current state of our educational system being the dismal failure it is; how can anyone question why our economy is so dangerously unstable? Oh, that's right... our economy is 'just fine'. We should go out and do our patriotic duty and SPEND THOSE DOLLARS! We deserve the chaotic state of affairs we exist within today.
Damn money. Damn funding. I'd say 'damn the dollar', but it is already damned to failure.
Education is not the only thing suffering from our nation's overwhelming greed. It is my focus because I am a parent of school age children. I've always made it a point to be an advocate for my children in school without being an opponent of my children's teachers. It takes teamwork between school and home for any child to obtain a well rounded education. This teamwork has become nearly impossible to find thanks to what I can only call "burn out".
Teachers are burnt out from seeing 80 percent of their class fail on a daily basis. Parents are burnt out from failing to successfully obtain communication between school and home. Students are burnt out from the chaos of our current education programs. No one is happy with the current state of our education system. Worse, no one is finding success within the system. Our students are entering the world unable to function as competent adults. Teachers are switching careers instead of retiring with the knowledge they successfully changed lives. Parents are giving up on their children. Children are giving up on themselves.
Hell, after all these years of knowing my own education was well-rounded and designed for a lifetime of continual learning, I find myself failing to observe simple grammar and punctuation rules.
Who cares? Most of those reading won't even notice. After all... they read the same newspapers I read today. Editors seem to have forgotten to apply the rules of the English language. Their main focus is ensuring the paper is read. Keep it dumb and keep it sensational. The main goal is to sell those papers! You can't sell a paper to a person without the educational skill to read and comprehend the written news. U no wut i meenz? U doo? Awww... I <3 u to! ;^)
It's all about money.
My God, what have we done to ourselves?
Another thing, which is not all that cool, is that I have been on holidays for almost a week, but I have not been able to have a day off since then, except on Saturday, as I spent my day grocery shopping and cooking for my friends…
Everyday, Sunday included, I worked on grading papers to be sure they’d be ready when we go back to school… If my plans are right, I will not be able to have one day off until I go back to work…
When I think people say that teachers don’t work and are paid to do nothing! I don’t know many people who are on holidays but still have to work…
"Borrowed" from Noelle67
:) What is the meaning of life?
The idea that everything and everyone is connected in some way.
:) Does god exist?
Absolutely
:D Where does the sock that your dryer eats actually go?
I agree with Noelle67 . The tumbling of the dryer and the built up static electricity actually opens up a vortex to an alternate dimension. It sucks in socks and leaves pennies behind.
:D Why do mothers say 'because I said so!'?
Because it prevents them from explaining why and going into a diatribe of, "I've had a hard day and nobody gives a crap. All day long I sacrifice for you kids and your father and what do I get in return? I didn't spend ____ hours in the hospital pushing out your big head just to hear some lip from you! When I was your age my mother woulda..."
:P Why don't dad's understand why we're so irritable once a month?
Because they don't realize they are often the source of our irritation.
:P Why don't teachers ever let you go to the bathroom when you ask?
For some reason full bladders in the middle of a test or a lecture seems contagious. One kid asks to go and the next thing you know 15 other kids suddenly have the urge to urinate.
Showing 1 - 5. [ Next ]