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[nenena]

Okay so I just had a completely horrible committee meeting today and although I cannot post about the gory details on a public post I will go ahead and let this video vent for me:

STUDENTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEE ALL FOUR WALLS OF YOUR CLASSROOM WITHOUT TURNING THEIR HEADS

To make me feel better, here is some awesome stuff!

Here is Aasif Mandvi, Chris Sims, and some racist guy on a Daily Show segment about Nightrunner.

And here is your Soul Eater Moment of AWESOME.

You can find more information about Kamden's commissions here and the funds all go to a good cause.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"your classroom must not have walls"
O.o

[nenena.livejournal.com]

I actually went to a high school that was built during the "no walls" movement. It took the school about one year to realize that having no walls made it impossible to teach and twenty years to raise the funds to actually build walls between the classrooms.

[(Anonymous)]

I showed my mom that video (she's a teacher)and appearently that's how most of her meetings go to. XP Eck.

Liz and Patty look adorable. <3

[symbolswriter.livejournal.com]

That... Video... Simply " O_O' ". Funny and sad (considering the fact that, as I understand, there's more truth in it than it seems for an outsider).

Also, teh cute Thompson sisters FTW! So, this Kamden is the person that made that one doujin that I remember you talking about some time ago? Yay, DA account detected! *happy*

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not a teacher, so I don't have to deal with this. But my mom teaches special ed, and I think I understand some of your pain. Because of no child left behind, if any of her students can't take the standardized test for their age, she has to write a report (although the only part that matters to the evaluators- who have never taught, by the way- is the rubric charting the student's capabilities at the end) explaining how and what they learned. This has to document /improvement/, so she's forced to make tests too hard for her students to pass before she can even teach the material. On occasion, maybe one of her students is at the "normal" level for their age in a subject, and gets to take whatever test the state comes up with that year.
I just get so frustrated knowing that that isn't even half the shit that gets pushed on teachers now. Is it impossible to understand that not everybody will be at the same level at the same age?