Teachers @ MindSay

in class my teacher asked me what kind of music i liked, so i said screamo. then she was like " scream out music?" then i said no screamo, s-c-r-e-a-m-o! then she said yeah scream out music! NO! fucking get it right and listen!

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

As a parent, I hate dealing with the public school system.  Like most, my family and I are without educational choices.  Affording private school tuition is out of the question.  Not that it would matter if I could afford the tuition.  I remember my own parochial school days and KNOW one environment is little better than the other.

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…