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May. 16th, 2007 07:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elizalavelleI forgot to write that it was a highschool reunion this past weekend. All I can say is meh. I actually went. Dell, Norma, Annabelle and I decided to do a walk through and that's pretty much all it was, we walked through the school. I saw all of 1 teacher who I wanted to talk to.
Perhaps the lowlight was this loser teacher Miss Dove talking with us. Now she was a flake as a teacher when I was still a student there, it was well known that you could do anything in her class and she wouldn't care. Students would be rolling joints on their desk, she just "didn't notice." My brother knew her as the Politics teacher who didn't know who Che Guevara was as he wasn't on her lesson plan and she didn't need to know that. Yes folks, she is a winner. She was talking to Dell about getting a job and her advice was "once you get hired by the board of Ed. you can just coast, you won't have to worry about work anymore." That attitude clearly showed through in her teaching style and the fact that people like that are teaching and I couldn't even get into Teacher's College this year is just appaling.
Other than that, we wandered through, managed to not see anyone we didn't really want to see and were reminded that really most people from highschool who we still wanted to be in touch with, we were. It was alright but I had more fun visiting Dell than visiting the school.
Perhaps the lowlight was this loser teacher Miss Dove talking with us. Now she was a flake as a teacher when I was still a student there, it was well known that you could do anything in her class and she wouldn't care. Students would be rolling joints on their desk, she just "didn't notice." My brother knew her as the Politics teacher who didn't know who Che Guevara was as he wasn't on her lesson plan and she didn't need to know that. Yes folks, she is a winner. She was talking to Dell about getting a job and her advice was "once you get hired by the board of Ed. you can just coast, you won't have to worry about work anymore." That attitude clearly showed through in her teaching style and the fact that people like that are teaching and I couldn't even get into Teacher's College this year is just appaling.
Other than that, we wandered through, managed to not see anyone we didn't really want to see and were reminded that really most people from highschool who we still wanted to be in touch with, we were. It was alright but I had more fun visiting Dell than visiting the school.
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Date: 2007-05-16 12:29 pm (UTC)As for insufficient teachers - I hear ya.
I didn't know you were interested in becoming a teacher. Thats great. What type/grade etc? Are you getting your masters?
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Date: 2007-05-16 11:34 pm (UTC)I want to teach highschool English. In Ontario we don't need our Masters but we do need to get a Teaching Certificate which is currently a tricky program to get into but I'm trying again next year :)