good reads
I love this blog. Teacher blogs on the whole are awesome - I belong to a profession in which we just can't stop yammering about our jobs, and while we have common experiences, there are always omg moments that make you laugh out loud, say "What the f*ck?" out loud, or tear up, that make each blog unique.
I wonder if I could have been this calm amidst a tornado siren - probably not, considering I've never even heard one; considering everytime a car backfires on the street behind my classroom, I jump a mile and wait tensely for Anne to run down the hall screaming "Lockdown!" like she did last time cops were shooting rubber bullets outside her room. Everytime the first-of-the-month sirens go off, images of terrorist acts flash through my mind. Everytime they test the school bells, as I count each burst (10 signals campus lockdown <-- and actually I think this could be way improved, bc if a gunman were on campus, I'd want my door shut and locked way before the 10th bell) I scan the room for the best corner in which to herd everyone. If I recall correctly, Anne shoved her 3 kids in the closet and shut the door. Where am I gonna shove 26 overgrown 5th graders? These things never (statistically speaking, it is safe-ish to say "never," although I am typing with one hand and knocking on the wooden desk with the other) happen in our neck of the woods, but they loom in our consciousness. They could happen anywhere. I am off-topic. I agree that when it's time (as in For Real Time), the kids will know. They will do what they have to, and so will I. That tornado story, though ... I mean, we have hurricanes, and we've had floods. But even in the "flashest" of flash floods there's time to get to high ground, there's some time to go somewhere. Tornadoes, this island girl surmises, afford no such leeway. Get your ass in the basement or kiss it goodbye.
Yeah, I wonder if I could hack it in Texas ...
Oh, and one more gem - she's like the dark side of ME! I don't know if I could refer to first graders as "little fuckers" but I sure did crack up when she did.
4 comments:
I don't know about Texas, but I'm sure you coups hack it in, oh, say...Oregon.
you could hack. you'd learn. there aren't any warnings for stuff that happens right on top of you.
and i hate the lockdown protocol in schools. better to make a run for it than feel trapped in a room with nowhere to go and nowhere to hide from someone motivated enough. but that's my personal opinion.
it's like that part of "bambi" (please tell me you've seen this classic) where the quails are hiding from the hunters, and one of them is too stir-crazy to stay put, saying "we should fly!" and the others are like, "no way!" and she goes, "i can't stand it any longer!" ... up she goes, bang, and down she comes. except with us it'd be like a sky full of quails flying in every which direction. and they'd all the screaming and waving their hands.
so your reasoning is a disney film? hehe. fair enough.
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