I already have several posts in mind. I must first get it straight about just who I am writing to. I am writing to me. I mean, after all, who would read this? Posting it on the internet is just my vanity thing. Plus the fact that it is so easy to keep up with.
So, here I am. A senior. Not just a senior in the sense that I have completed so many hours of college. I've been THAT for YEARS. No, I am a "graduating in...oh wow I just realized this...exactly one month" senior. WOW! I hadn't even thought of that till I was typing it! It hasn't begun to sink in. I mean it doesn't even seem real. It's not like I've been working on this dang degree on and looooong off for almost 30 years!
Now I am student teaching. It has been a blast! High school was okay, but I am teaching middle school for this half of the semester. I was scared to DEATH of middle schoolers coming into it. Last week, we were packing up to leave the computer lab at school and one of the kids said, "Mrs. M, you are going to be an AWESOME teacher! I wish you'd stay at our school so I could have you again!" I walked out of the computer lab, looked at my cooperating teacher and flatly declared, "
I am a middle school teacher!" She laughed at me.
I am now sweating out the wait for a job. Student loans are looming. But this is NOT a good time in Tennessee to be looking into teaching! Oh it is bleak-the job prospect as well as the lack of job security for those who DO teach. When did the country turn on teachers? It used to be a noble profession. And my Republican party has so dissappointed me in this dept. As conservatives, we should be figuring out ways to go after the national union without dismantling the support for the most thankless job in the country. It isn't the local unions and the teachers we should be going after. It's the national union, the lobyists, and the top heavy structure of education that we should be dismantling. Come on my Republicans. You don't shoot the messenger for delivering a bad message, you find the composer of the bad message and take issue with them. Teachers WANT to teach. Our hands are so tied by the rules and regulations that all we can do is prepare the kids for tests! I really should just make myself write letters. I am so sick of the current state congress messing with things they have no clue about and making it so much worse than it's ever been. Way to make Republicans look stupid guys. Might want to consult someone who knows a little bit about it before making drastic, idiotic changes to something and REALLY screwing it up! Thanks! Especially to you, Debra Maggart. I voted for you, but never again. You have lost ALL of my respect. Oh okay, maybe I am writing to an audience...just this once.
Anyway. Even though I am Christian. I question God sometimes. Bear with me. This isn't sacrilege. It's just trying to grasp at understanding. God forgive me if I've crossed a line, but You know I ask You this all the time. Gonna post it in the next post
