- I am capable of eating an entire meal in 15 minutes and not getting heart burn, not visiting the facilities for 5 hours straight, and commanding 80 7th graders on 4 hours of sleep or less.
- In the eyes of a 7th grader in Haltom City, using big words like "society" and "association" is "showing off".
- You are not supposed to laugh out loud at your students when they pronounce the name "Beatrice" phonetically as "beat rice". Or when they come into your room running and surf your door mat into the nearest table.
- Turns out lots of women never really grow out of that teenage girl clique/cat fight thing.
- Turns out I CAN be insulted to my face and not overreact.
- I think the whole world feels about 15 degrees warmed to me than the average person. My room is known as "The Meat Locker", but I sure don't have a problem with dress code.
- The Outsiders is just as good 40 years after it was written.
- Middle School is exactly the same was it was when I did it the first time. The social groups just have different names.
- Yes your teachers were talking about you.
- Teachers in inner-city schools bond like soldiers in a war. Well, maybe not EXACTLY like soldiers in a war. But close.
- Teachers like it when you call them mean and hard. It means they are doing their job.
- I'm looking forward to when I can be the tough-but-fair teacher, but since 7th graders are advocates of all personal justice, I'm not sure it's possible.
- I'm also not sure kids realize adults have emotions, and what they say matters. It's weird to see it from this side of the desk.
OK there is a quick list. I'm sure I will have more as the kids who got suspended drift back in just in time for the TAKS test...
