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My Last Year Teaching High School

http://mylastyear.org

After 40 years, this is my last year teaching in a high school setting. I will try to enlighten the 120 sophomores I have this year. I want you to join and comment with me on this journey as I am lead out to pasture, practicing for my new job next year by saying with me "Welcome to Walmart!"

• Added on: Sep 15th, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Paul J Hanley
• Listed in: Society Boomers
• Tags: education humor teaching high school classroom sophomores

Recent Posts

• Article 1, Section 3, #4 of the U.S. Constitution

  Posted on Tuesday October 21st, 2008 at 20:19 in kids, Bible, bush, mccain, cheney, Random Musings, exodus, fundamentalist, vice-president, sarah palin, room 207, master story

  “The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally provided.” - I must comment, why, after all these weeks, hasn’t Sarah Palin read that paragraph? Doesn’...

• Wake Up-It’s Monday

  Posted on Monday October 20th, 2008 at 18:36 in stupid, mccain, pbs, fundamentalist, room 207

  Had a relatively good bunch of classes today. Most of it was spent on what a “contract” is and leading into the covenant between G-d and humans. I also brought up the “us-them” attitude when it came to being “chosen&...

• Another Fish-wrap Day

  Posted on Friday October 17th, 2008 at 12:05 in mccain, scores, classes, grades, classroom, secondary school, quarter break

  Today is The Quarter Break…so I’m going to spend the day putting the grades together, Does that sound like fun? I thought so. Hey you know what? 1 Quarter down, 3 to go before I exit stage left....

• Wowsers!

  Posted on Thursday October 16th, 2008 at 19:16 in white, poor, rich, black, minorities, preppy, privilege, secondary school

  Great in-service today which focused on how we can be “with” others. Started with a prayer service that traced the history and direction of the school for the last 154 years in business. Very moving and full of challenges for all of us to...

• Light Day

  Posted on Wednesday October 15th, 2008 at 20:34 in baby, Economy, Debate, testing, mccain, test, Random Musings, birth, secondary school

  Today, Wednesday is another wonderful sunny, warm, in the ’80s. A great day (nite) for a debate. But first, a word from our sponsor, Viagra. Isn’t it wonderful that we have a wee blue pill can keep things up and working? You betcha’...

• What did I learn Today?

  Posted on Tuesday October 14th, 2008 at 20:12 in dreams, fears, adolescents, meeting, nuns, secondary school, convent, sophomores, soph

  Does anyone really really believe those commercials put out by the oil companies, like Marathon and BP who want, more than anything else in the world, to save the environment? Maybe I am getting cynical and untrusting, but I just don’t believe ...

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