I Must Blog!

I understand why Rich is so depressed about his teaching position. Math rarely, RARELY gets hoots--you know, those mistakes that students make that have you laughing for days. English teachers? Well...we could write a book. I just added one to my collection today.

We built resumes with seniors today. Our seniors do mock interviews with business people in our area. They receive feedback from those people. They learn a lot. The first element of their interview process is constructing the resume. This year, we're using a new program that is provided by the state. It's easy in that you plug in the information and the site formats the resume for you. Nice tool for anyone, but it's only available to public school students.

One senior--a GREAT, quiet kid--was struggling with his community service section. After he insisted he had none, his English teacher and I started throwing out suggestions. "You haven't _________? You haven't _________??" After a few of those, he took off. His teacher checked on him a bit later, read a bit of his resume, and burst out laughing. "I think you'd better change this. Mrs. Reid, come here." I went to see what all the fuss was about. On his resume, under "community service," he'd written, "Pushed around elderly people at the Wool Fest." Of course, what he had intended to say was, "Escorted elderly people who were in wheelchairs at the Wool Fest," but his teachers--English teachers, naturally--got an image of him shoving elderly people around when he encountered them at the Wool Fest. We spent the rest of the day laughing.

We're insufferable. We know. It makes life complete.