Today at school we rocked a role reversal... the students dressed like teachers and we did our best to dress as students with sloppy untucked white shirts and ties that looked more like fragile nooses that dangled away from our necks... Nick's junior high school dance was the jump off... Over two hundred junior high school cats descended on the senior gym like the bubonic plague on europe... But back to the lecture at hand.....Like an eskimo in a heat wave it was really neat to see the students dressed to impress in their best attempts to recreate my classic teacher style.. The day was so light hearted and it made me realize that teaching is more than delivering knowledge, raising reading levels, learning organizational skills, or how to do math problems void of a calculator that you will never have to do again in any aspect of your regular life.. Teaching is about relationships... Its about breaking down age barriers, and racial walls, showing a youth that learns more about diversity from MTV than they do from living in the ghetto... The ghetto is so segregated the only white people my students see are the plastic skeletons on Laguana Beach, police officers, and teachers.... This may sound wierd but it gives me a huge Kool-Aid smile to know that anyone of my students would take a bat to the back of someones head if they messed with me.... You can't buy that type of respect you can only earn it.... Well i digress, my tired eyes are again filled with a thrist for sleep... Seacrest out....
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