Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Can't breath...

I can't breath without you!
you still are on my mind night and day
you still make me nervous when I talk to you
you still take me to that special place in my heart
I can't breath without you!
The touch of your lips on mine
makes me tremble,
the feel of your hands on me
makes me want you even more,
the sound of your voice
sends chills down my spine
I can't breath without you!
I want you to hold me, always
I want you to kiss me, softly
I want you to make love to me, deeply
I want you to want me...
I can't breath without you...

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

What are they thinking?

When mandated testing got started they said that it would only be a measure of student performance. The test would help us to know how our students are doing compared to other districts and states.
Now this "animal" is responsible for the firing of teachers, and people thinking that teachers are the problem.
Has anyone been in a school lately, start at the elementary and work your way up. Have you ever just walked in and looked around. Listen to the conversations that the students are having with each other, notice all the girls that are pregnant, all the students with no supplies, all the gang bangers, thugs, and listen to the language that comes out of kids mouths???? Are these the faults of the teachers???
Schools got started with the teacher, not the administration, policy makers, and people who supposedly know what is good for schools!
No one listens to us! No one really cares! Politicians only use education as a platform to get elected. They don't really care what happens. When something needs real attention, the politicians seem to fix it with a band-aide or a grenade!
No Child Left Behind is a joke!!! Special Education is a joke!! Why are kids dropping out of school???? BECAUSE THEY CAN'T READ!!! It is next to impossible to fail a student in Special Education. These kids have been put into "regular" classrooms so their Psyche won't be hurt, never mind they read on a 1st-5th grade level in an 8th grade class!! Why do we have so many problems in math, same reason! Kids don't have to memorize anything anymore.
Whatever happened to the basics??? Oh yeah, we want our kids to think on a higher level, yeah... tell me how that is supposed to happen when they can't even think on a basic level!!!!
Teachers today spend so much time doing paperwork to cover their asses, that they don't have time to do anything else! Why do we have to put up with kids assaulting us? Administrators threatening us, and Politicians telling us we all suck!!!
I challenge them to go to any inner city school and teach for a year and then tell me who's fault all this is! Maybe then, they will come up with some solutions to "fix" education! Or the parents! Or the numerous programs put into place!
What was so wrong with vocational training? Why can't we get some of these kids out of school and put them in job training. If a student hates school and does nothing but ruin it for everyone else, get them out and give them some practical training!!!
Why is the teacher always the blame for failing scores?? Why is it that teachers can get fired for something a student does wrong or for the failure of the system?
It's funny but when we are going through our "state mandated" training for testing, I always ask, after being told that I could lose my license for this and for that... what happens to the student if they do something wrong during testing... the answer is always, NOTHING!!!!
What would happen if all the teachers across the nation were to go on strike??? What would the parents do?? No babysitter?? How am I going to go to work?? What would the government do?? Finally listen to us???
Last question... why don't you ever hear of them cleaning house with the administration of a district??? Why isn't the entire school board, principals, vice-principals, secretaries, administrative secretaries, specialists for each area, assistance to the assistant, and everyone else who gets paid way more money than I do, fired??!!
Just had to ask...

What i wish you would say....

Spending all my nights and all my money going out on the town
Doing anything just to get you off of my mind
But when the morning comes I'm right back where I started again
And trying to forget you was just a waste of time

Baby come back, any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Baby come back, you can blame it all on me
I was wrong and I just can't live without you

All day long wearing a mask of false bravado
Trying to keep up a smile and hide the tears
But as the sun goes down I get that empty feeling again
How I wish to god that you were here

Baby come back, any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Baby come back, you can blame it all on me
I was wrong and I just can't live without you

Now that I put it all together
Give me the chance to make you see
Have you used up all the love in your heart
Nothing left for me, is there nothing left for me

Baby come back, any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Baby come back, listen baby, you can blame it all on me
I was wrong and I just can't live without you
I was wrong and I just can't live
Hall & Oats

Where is my knight in shining armor, where is the man that will make me feel special and wanted.
You will miss me, you will regret it, you will want to say more... but won't because you don't want to be vulnerable. I understand.