wanna see my classroom?

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wanna see my classroom?
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Thu, 09-09-2004 - 12:06pm

I took the camera to school the other day to take a couple of pics of the so called office I've been allocated to work in when evicted from my room. So, thought you gals might like to see where I spend my gruelling days with the brats :)


The last one is the so called office...also known as...the cupboard. Great chair, huh?


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Fri, 09-10-2004 - 11:19am

The desks are a decent size Gigi...of course we have to sit two lumbering teens at each one, so there's not much space left over by the time that happens ;)

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Fri, 09-10-2004 - 11:21am
Maybe if we rolled you up in a ball we could just about pull that off, Caly!

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Fri, 09-10-2004 - 11:31am

Wow Kim...five years in that closet, huh?! What a lady!


You can bet you life that I checked out some Health and Safety issues - and I now have an adjustable chair on order, along with a decent desk lamp and a lil heater for the winter months...so's my little digits don't die too often!


Glad you liked my room, Kim. I teach right through from 6th to 12th grades....what we in the UK call Years 7 through 13. I have two classes in 6th Grade, two in 7th, one in 8th, one in 9th and one in 11th.


I've only just inherited the room, so the displays on there are not my own yet - I usually have a lot more in the way of written stuff up rather than just pics and collages. It'll all look a bit different given enough time ;)


Glad you like the pics and I've not bored you to death with them yet ;)

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Fri, 09-10-2004 - 11:34am

Wow...sensors in the loos, huh? Our kids would have a hell of a time with those! They'd probably all be bust within a couple of weeks of term starting!


Hanging probably WOULD be the better option, Cat - you are right once again,

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Fri, 09-10-2004 - 11:46am
I was wondering if that was a tennis court, but then it might have been part of a track! If Anna Kournikova and Maria Sharapova happen to be playing tennis out there... eyes front! (They got lost on the way to Wimbledon and stopped for a match to stretch their legs.)
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Fri, 09-10-2004 - 11:57am
>>Our kids would have a hell of a time with those! They'd probably all be bust within a couple of weeks of term starting!<<

I've heard of kids flushing M-80's down them... in the chemistry classes, every now and then someone would connect the water faucet to the gas supply used for bunsen burners, using rubber tubing. Then they would turn on both.

I never did that. Only thing we did was connect the tubing to the faucet, attach a funnel on the other end, having it hang down so that it was about two inches from the bottom of the sink. As the sinks were deep and round, turning the water on made the tubing start spinning, and soon it would be like a lawn sprinkler.

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Fri, 09-10-2004 - 12:02pm

You hit the nail on the head when you said:


It looks like your supervisors have done the absolute minimum that they think they can get away with and still say they are making an effort to accomodate your needs.


I'm going to keep battling until I have thinsg set up the way I want - it's just so frustrating to have to battle for every little thing, you know? Fred C has been told what needs doing, and yet I find myselg having to ask for the same things over and over before I see any results. And, of course, I didn't get anywhere at all on the changing of my timetable...I'll be stuck with the poopy classes all year.


Still, I'm quietly getting on with things, recording everything...the pics were taken for my own records just in case there is any fallout.


Thanks for the hugs and your kind words, my friend.


Loves ya x

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Fri, 09-10-2004 - 12:19pm

LOL...apparently the library manager has tried plants Bush

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Fri, 09-10-2004 - 12:21pm
LOL....the chewing gum sign is actually a leftover from the teacher that had the room last year. I took it off the door this morning weirdly enough. However, it is school policy that the kids don't have gum in school...they stick it everywhere...on the desks, chairs, each other. And it gets all over the carpets. It's a constant battle with them though - I'm constantly telling kids to spit their gum out. Not an easy thing to enforce at all.

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Fri, 09-10-2004 - 12:24pm
Some cool ideas, Laurie...might try a few of them out