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Oct. 11th, 2006 04:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnyWell consider me thoroughly distracted [*snorts* compare that last to this]. You know, in case I needed an understudy for Paul Bettany or anything.
Got called a fucking idiot by a student today. Reported him, he might be kicked out. Feel like shit for it, but it's seriously his own fault - this is the last straw of manymanymany.
Still feel awful.
I have an unexpected day off tomorrow, which is really rather nice. I'm gonna get some washing done, maybe tidy my room a little bit, head down to the art gallery and quite possibly buy a monitor and some new Temeraire. Jessops seem perfectly willing to give my mp3 money back, so that's pleasant.
I still find the concept of teaching literature a strange one. I absolutely appreciate the reading I'm doing, and I absolutely appreciate that being equipped with some of the tools for pulling apart literature I'm capable of getting much more out of it. I guess, as with anything, it's very dependent on the teachers you manage to get. I mean, part of the reason I didn't do lit in college was because I was very much told what to think and what to write at GCSE, and when that was paired up with being told what to read it just grated. I guess it's like being taught art, or even RS - you're lucky if you get an open minded teacher who is willing to discuss and respect your point of view. Not everyone is lucky, and that's sad.
I'm going to do my very best to be one of them good teachers.
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innerbrat because... well, yes, actually.
What type of Fae are you?
Got called a fucking idiot by a student today. Reported him, he might be kicked out. Feel like shit for it, but it's seriously his own fault - this is the last straw of manymanymany.
I have an unexpected day off tomorrow, which is really rather nice. I'm gonna get some washing done, maybe tidy my room a little bit, head down to the art gallery and quite possibly buy a monitor and some new Temeraire. Jessops seem perfectly willing to give my mp3 money back, so that's pleasant.
I still find the concept of teaching literature a strange one. I absolutely appreciate the reading I'm doing, and I absolutely appreciate that being equipped with some of the tools for pulling apart literature I'm capable of getting much more out of it. I guess, as with anything, it's very dependent on the teachers you manage to get. I mean, part of the reason I didn't do lit in college was because I was very much told what to think and what to write at GCSE, and when that was paired up with being told what to read it just grated. I guess it's like being taught art, or even RS - you're lucky if you get an open minded teacher who is willing to discuss and respect your point of view. Not everyone is lucky, and that's sad.
I'm going to do my very best to be one of them good teachers.
ETA: I haven't much, lately, but gacked from
innerbrat because... well, yes, actually. What type of Fae are you?
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Date: 2006-10-11 05:33 pm (UTC)I can't believe your student said that to you - it's both stupid and horrible.
Can I come over there and kick their ass?
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Date: 2006-10-12 01:45 am (UTC)Good thing you reported your student -- I'm voluteering my help to kick his arse too! I HAVE A GIANT FOOT ONNA STICK, even!!! (It's part of the equipment we have in the gym at our school: one of our kids here has cerebral palsy, so he's in a wheelchair, but he can use his arms a little, so the lovely Phys. Ed. Teacher bought him a giant foot onna stick. So that he can play soccer with his friends. :D )