Hello friends, family, and strangers (I flatter myself)! I am a recently-graduated girl finding my way in the "real world" (apparently, I've been floating around the fake world for the past two decades). Many of my friends' "real world"s consist of cubicles, nine-to-fives, marriage, babies, and other such grown-up things. My real world looks a little different. Yes, I still get up and go to work every morning, same as they do. But instead of battling fax machines, computer programs, disgruntled spouses and dirty diapers, I arm myself against a legion of 14-year-old boys. Well, 83 of them to be exact. You see, I teach 8th-grade boys' Science in an inner-city, high-poverty school. What it is not: glamorous, prestigious, boring. What it is: humorous, heartbreaking, and the most challenging thing I will ever do.

The stories I tell and the people I describe are real; you can't make this stuff up. If you are new to my blog, I hope you'll start at the beginning and fall in love with its characters, just as I have.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Let's Hear it for the Boys!

4 A GOOD TIME CLICK HERE .

Not only is the song appropriate, this is also the most awesome part in the most awesome movie ever in the history of forever.

Got my rosters today and noticed two things immediately:
1. My classes are small!!! The biggest is 22. The smallest two are 17!
2. Most of the names seemed masculine. I was fairly certain about the Dequaviuses and Levontes, but names like Essa and Neeka were a little more ambiguous.

When I took the lists to a co-worker for confirmation, she kindly suggested I look in the "Gender" column to see.

Duh.

Gender:
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M
M
M
M
M
M
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M
M
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M
M
M
M
M
M
M
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Looks like it's me and my little men again this year. Saddle up, y'all.
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  1. AnonymousAugust 21, 2010 at 12:16 PM

    Ready to see the pictures of the finished classroom! I'll spend my own money on my classroom and have so much fun with it! Post post post!
    Kate

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