This is for my wife... Tabulous

Yes, Wife, I am writing an entry into my blog. You ask me every once and a while, "Why do you have a blog if you never post anything? It doesn't make sense. Are you using it to e-stalk me?" Well now it make sense for me to have a blog because I have posted something. So I fart in your general direction. By the way I am the "Chuck Norris" of burping and I like to play Jenga with our dishes on the drying rack (It adds danger to my life b/c you know you would kill me if I broke a dish that would make our dinnerware incomplete sets).

For those that will probably never read this other than my Wife. I am a teacher at an urban charter school that specializes in kids with behavior issues (they like to break stuff) and ADHD. Makes my every work day an interesting one. Each day is defferent depending on whether the kids take their meds. Tell you what I love being told by a 5th grader to "suck it" on a daily basis. I sometimes feel like Alex Trebek on Celebrity Jeopardy talking to Sean Connery except Sean Connery is a inner-city under privileged kid that has no social skills.

Well, I have posted a blog. My first one is complete and I am sure I will start posting more in the near future. That is something I miss about college, writing down thoughts on to paper. I may not be the best at composing syntax or speaking out loud (Read Tabulous posts about my brain's inability to link up correctly with my mouth), but like my Wife has expressed before, I miss the challenge of learning new things and just being in a classroom. It seems now that I am in such a routine teaching these kids stuff I already know. Yes, sometimes I need a refresher on subjects from time to time. When was the last time you had to teach a class of sixth graders about the development of Japan's culture during the Middle Ages. The problem is I got in to education to teach in a high school setting, but I am stuck in an elementary/middle school position because of the limited opportunities here in Dayton. Teaching high school brought different challenges to my job and more interaction with a little more developed youth. Some of it has to do with where I am teaching. When most of the kids can not read at their grade level or tell you what 2+2 is there is a intellectual void. Don't take it the wrong way, these kids need all the help they can get and I try on a day to day basis bridge that educational divide. One problem I find myself having is to see students that have no interest in their education. They have no clue what they are doing to their futures no matter how much everybody tells them how important their education is. I had a 7th grader ask me if getting a GED was even worth it. Comments like that make it difficult to come into a classroom with the idea that you are helping the kids make a better life for themselves. I keep telling myself if I work hard, the kids will come around at some point and realize how important it is to actually care about what they are doing in life.

Well until next time blogger...