I Teach...

I'm all for accountability.  But America, how are you going to produce productive citizens if the children are not held to a higher standard?  I am a sucker for technology.  I am of an age that ALWAYS remembers a computer being in the house.  My mother never let me have a pager in middle school.  I never really wanted one.  I saw how my cousin could remember every girls number but couldn't remember his homework.  In undergrad, I ran most ninjas in Madden, NCAA, etc. but I still graduated in 4 years with honors.  But now my job pits me on the "Battlefield for Brains" and where this may sound a bit hyperbolic, I assure you it's an understatement.  "Hide yo' wife!  Hide yo' kids!.."  My students have more facebook friends than I do.  NO, not one of my students can be found in my friends' list.  They tell me, "I have 1,000 friends!"  I ask, "are you a friend to yourself?"

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I teach English

It's more than a 9 to 5

Instructing grammar to teens

Who often scheme each others' lives…

Fiendish lifestyles from every arena

With one agenda:

Survive!

We write business letters

Students speak SMS,

Caring less and less about these tests

Awaiting chance to text,

IPODS and IPhone 3G now 4

Xbox, Playstation, and Wii

Outperform reported scores but…

Everybody gets a trophy

Felonious odors exude pores as

Gassed-up kids get passed-up

By their peers from foreign shores

America!

I teach English...

It’s more than a 9 to 5

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