It's my birthday... I'm 25 (okay, so I'm a little numbers dyslexic...) Anyway, the kids

[1monster]

were being really loud and difficult in 4/5 block today, so I asked the, as a special birthday present, to give me a break and keep it quiet.

"How old are you?" asked one student, I gave him the answer above.

"No!" he said. You can't be! Maybe forty. But I think you look like you're in your thirties.

"Thanks, Jon, I'd give you an A for that, if I could, but I can't."

"No, no! I really mean it! You don't look 52!"

So I didn't get the birthday prezzie I asked for (Those kids have one setting and that is EXTRA EXTRA LOUD.

But the compliment was a nice consolation prize. :D

[SallyMander]

1. Happy Birthday!!!

Hope you're having a good day! :bounce:

:party:

:toast:

[1monster]

3. Thank you. I got a bottle of Kahlua, which will probably last me past my next birthday...

:D Having a nice evening.

[Bennyboy]

2. Happy Birthday to you!

I'll try to keep it down, okay?

[1monster]

4. Since were are not in a small concrete block room with cement floors and hard desks

for the sound to bounce off and echo back in a continuous loop, you can be as noisy as you like.

School rooms are very utilitarian these days. Very little sound absorbing materials are used.

[Bennyboy]

5. I don't know how you do it....

But thanks a lot. To me teachng is the most noble of professions and it really takes someone special to even attempt it. thanks a lot.

[1monster]

6. I'm a substitute teacher and that is both easier and harder than being a

contract teacher. I love it. I love teaching different subjects on a daily/weekly basis, and I also love the long term subbing jobs (three weeks, five weeks, seven weeks, three months, etc.)

I have relearned so much that I'd forgotten and learned new stuff too.

There are days when I wonder if I'm totally insane, but there there are other days.

One of the best days was when my son came home and told me that a student who was really intelligent, but very unhappy with her home life and always getting into serious trouble was now doing fine and on the straight and narrow.

I tried, whenever I was able, to show her a future where she would be in control of her life if she stopped doing the stupid (and prosecutable stuff).

She told my son that I had helped her a lot and she owed it, in part, to me that she had turned her life around.

If I can make a difference for the better to just a few of the students, then even the worst days are worth it.

[Bennyboy]

9. Sweet. That must be so rewarding...

[lizziegrace]

7. Happy Birthday!!

:)

:party:

smart kids... ;)

[1monster]

8. Thank you!