Friday, November 14, 2008

It's Friday

Just something for today.

The past few weeks have been good. Not to much drama, just the usual. I continue to learn that you cannot change anyone but yourself. Dealing with your own personal drama is enough, let alone dealing with anyone else's. Especially when you have no ties with that person.

Work has been pretty quiet. Although that employee that had issues with a student, is still going on and on about it. Today she says that its her birthday. Well, happy birthday. Says she is 21 +4. But, looks way older than that unfortunately. So, I just left that one alone this morning. It would have been to easy.

Currently I have 12 students in my room for In-house suspension. Most of them because they did not attend after school detention. Go figure. But, they only have 2 options when it comes to being in In-house. You can either do the work or you can get out. No exceptions, no excuses. Those are the rules.

So that's life for today. Not to much going on for today. Maybe later though.

Friday, November 7, 2008

Drama in Schools

So this morning has been pretty interesting here at my high school. This school has some issues, always. If you are an employee of the school district, that is just what you are. You are not here to make friends with employees or be buddy buddy with the students. An employee. Your job is not to have specific conversations to students about their behavior, especially if you are just a monitor or security guard. That is not part of your job description. You certainly don't have that conversation with a student about another student, which happens to be one of their friends. You say that they students act like little kids, but here you go joining the crowd and getting into their conversation as if you were a high school student. That is just something that you don't do.



So why get mad when your supervisor wants to talk to you about the situation and what was actually said about that student. Don't be mad about. You said it, so face it. Although you face it, no one needs to know that you are going to speak your mind, and you are not going to get loud with people and you don't like people saying things about you that you did or did not say. WOW!!! Now the shoe is on the other foot. Now you want to go and cry about it to me because the supervisor wants to talk to you about it. Again, don't cry about it now. It was not your place to say those things. Listen, if you feel like you are having problems with the students, then you should take it to their principal. Because the way that you handled that was very unprofessional and you were so not in your place to say that to a student that you know nothing about. You only know of what you see and hear from other students.



(sorry, I got lost in the moment and felt like I was talking to that employee) Oh, trust me, I have said something to that employee about it. That was only because that person came to me. I was not going to say a word, but I had to give a little advice.



If it has nothing to do with you or no one has said your name, stay out of it. Now, when you hear your name calling, then you run.



I do this with my husband. When he is having a conversation about something with someone else, I never get in the middle of it. Why? Because he is not talking to me and most of the time, it does not concern me. I just listen for my name.



Have a wonderful Friday and an even Fabulous weekend.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Barack Obama

IT HAS BEEN DONE!!! WE HAVE ARRIVED AT A HISTORICAL MOMENT THAT CAN NEVER BE TAKEN AWAY.

BARACK OBAMA, OUR NEW AFRICAN AMERICAN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!

Monday, November 3, 2008

Time for a change, LET'S GO VOTE

Now, I am sure that everyone has been listening and watching the elections. Please, please, please go out and vote. Tomorrow is election day for Texas. If you did not get to the polls for the early voting, tomorrow will be a hectic day, but worth standing in line for. As always, your vote makes a difference. Especially in this election that will be made historical. I am sure that everyone understand how important it is for you to vote, so I won't beat it into your heads any longer. Just VOTE!!!! It's that simple.