Thursday, August 04, 2005

well, the working week has hit me. There are a few things that haven't gone as well as I would like.

It looks like there is going to be a delay in the school getting a server where I can host my blog (that THEY want me to have). But that is the small problem. The bigger problem is apparently they are concerned about the kiddies that are switching classes within the first 10 days of class. I think they are afraid that they will be behind in whatever classthe switch to. I guess that means that the kids might actually have to work. The way that they propose to fix this problem is to standardize what each teacher does over the first 10 days. Although this may not seem like a big issue, I'm actually pretty livid over it.

I may not have the best class of honors physics, but I like to think that I offer an experience that is unique and focuses on learning how to think. I use puzzles to get people to think about problems logically, and I was planning on using databasing and a few equipment heavy labs to get them to work with data better and to think about what the meaning of their data is. I had crafted this gigantic adventure where my student would be transformed into brilliant scientists and theologians who would (at the end of two weeks) best dragons from the east in battles of skill and debate. Then . . . and only then would my students be ready to learn physics and transcend into god-dom. Instead I am forced to match my cirriculum, down to the actual fucking activities that I do, with not only the other honors physics, but with the regular physics class. That way Timmy, who can't handle the rigor of honors physics can seamlessly transition into the regular physics class that he will fucking dominate the rest of the year. It is stupid, and as my coworker said, I am having a philosophical different with this idea.

Hopefully this will all be remedied when a person from the county comes and explains things tomorrow. I can only hope that he will show up and say that it's cool guys, just do whatever the fuck you want as long as the kids are learning. See, I think that is where my philosophical difference lies. I understand helping the kids . . . but I don't see this as helping the kids. Why is coddling them helping them. They aren't stupid ALL the time, they can handle having to adjust to a new class. They wanted the change anyway. Why am I dumbing down the quality of the education I provide so that the 5% of students that decide to transfer can have an easy process. It just feels stupid. I understand the point behind it, but I don't understand why they need to make my life more difficult. We've never done this shit in the past, and the kids didn't come out retarded! What the fuck!

In other news, I feel like my heart rate is higher than it should be. I've been spinning and doing other things for hours on end in an attempt to work my cardio more, but it is the middle of the season so I don't know if it will be getting much better. I've got another tournament this weekend. I'm in north carolina, and I'll be driving. I feel like it is my time to drive since I missed out last weekend and I am a rookie. Well, hopefully we will win this one. There are three other teams there that are good, and we should be able to beat two of them without much of a problem. The third is better than we are. At least better than we were, and quite honestly I'm not sure that we are much better this year. We are shorter, and slower (in my opinion). apparently we throw better, but we'll see about that when it is windy.

Got to talk to Matt today. He agrees that he should have been blogging while in France. Stupid Matt. Out.

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