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Oct 20 2008

Gum and Cartoons

Donate Now Are you familiar with the angry cartoon character, the one that reaches his boiling point and his face turns red and steam comes out of his ears? I was that cartoon character today, I’m sure there was steam involved too. I won’t go into details, but I raised my voice for the first…

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Oct 16 2008

I’ll give you my first-born child

Donate Now I left the kids alone with a sub yesterday, for the first time, since I had to attend a mandatory TELPAS training (it’s an exam that measures ELL students’ english proficiency in reading/writing/listening/speaking), and when I returned today my usually wonderful kids were OUT OF CONTROL. It made me want to both never…

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Oct 06 2008

Middle Schoolers….

Middle Schoolers: Invite you to their quinceaneras and into their communities, making you feel oh-so-special and giving you something really fun to do on a Saturday night. Steal pushpins off your wall to scratch their name into their hands. Ick. Tell you they want to throw parties on the electron cloud, with their negatively charged…

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