All right, well it's been a while since club myst so I owe an update. The classroom is going pretty well. .I figured out a new way to make out my lesson plans. I pretty much write a 8-9 page paper outline thing for a week, which takes a lot more time than before but HEY big shocker, class is more organized now than before. I've also been changing stuff up on the kids, like creating a homework folder and creating more class jobs to make my life a tad bit easier. I'm still a lil punk when it comes to calling the parents, I gotta just sack up and do it but I'm afraid some parents are gonna want to come after me with a .45 asking why their kids have D's. I won't lie, I just gave them a social studies quiz and literally gave them the answers before the quiz and I STILL got kids in the 70s. When the answer to a question is charter for an official government paper and you get "Barock Oh Bama" as an answer, you can choose to do two things: start flipping desks or laugh out loud. I choose the latter.
One big thing thats happening in my school though, on a somber note, is a HUGE budget crisis. So my school is $100,000 in debt and we apparently need to make changes now. Some of these changes include firing one of the 4th grade teachers, getting rid of the school music program, fundraising up the ying yang, and more. We have some kids leaving the school too because of the rising tuition, including Jennifer Vasquez in my class. She came yesterday to pick up her stuff right before my writing lesson, and suddenly writing became the last thing on anyone's mind. The girls in my class were wailing and I've never seen tears fall, it was literally like I turned a faucet on their tear ducts or something. Jennifer came in not crying but within 5 minutes she was bawling too. It was touching and depressing at the same time. . .I kinda stood there mad awkward trying to make her laugh by giving her a test they had just taken and said, "Well, you know you still owe me a test and a quiz now, let's not forget." Thank God she laughed or else I would have felt like such an ass. Even the guys in my class were tryin to piece it together, saying things like "GUYS DON'T CRY" and they broke in 20 minutes. Speaking of the fellas, I'm their new basketball coach and have yet to give them streetball names. I will be posting a picture of them soon and require you give me your best suggestions. . .I already am going to be calling the tallest one Escalade.
Otherwise, life is going really well. My community is great, we had a blast for Halloween dressing like kids from Legends of the Hidden Temple (I was Silver Snakes) and we're actually having a Christmas party tomorrow! We're going to have hot chocolate, spiced apple cider, rum, tequila, ginger bread, ugly christmas sweaters, christmas music. . .although the nights always end up at 3 a.m. with people caravaning to get tacos or tortas at our nearest mexican dive. We also just had a huge reunion with all the teachers in the ACE program last weekend in Austin, which is pretty incredible. Everyone had some great stories and the last night was a SHOW. The program pretty much gave us 2 free kegs and unlimited wine for 180 teachers, everyone got sloppy and danced to We Three Kings followed by Lil' Wayne all night.
Here's just a lil picture of me and my Phoenix ACE community. We're pretty stellar and have a super nice house, so ya'll need to roll through! Oh, and VA on the 20th. . .you should come too.
Paz,
FXCF
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