February 16, 2001

my physical good-ness ( health ) has seen better days. this weather is wreaking havok on my stability ... and I'm not having a very good week. I woke up this morning to hear my mother ranting about how it is still snowing - and that there isn't any school for Bethel District.

"Damn." - i thought to myself.... "Jimmy day is cancelled."


but - on a lighter note - towards the end of the day all the snow should be gone... hmmm. we'll definately have to think about that - however - had I gone on jimmy day i would most-definately BE BACK BY 12am or 11pm as i have to be at school tomorrow morning at 9am for ( get this ) my first day of saturday school, ever! I have two new M:TG decks in which I wanted to test out against Jake & Co. today. It is rather dissapointing that now I have to wait until monday to see how they work. Michael is going to go out slush riding. I don't know what the fuck he is talking about - slush riding is obviously some stupid term he's made up to describe some stupid activity in which is stupid mind has (stupid stupid stupid stupid) ... notice how the sentence just seems to trail off into further stupidity? I thought so. moving on . . .

As everyone has attempted to do... my plans are... very rough. For one - I do not know of "emancipated teaching" nor have ever heard of the concept. I didn't peg the term, and it sounds somewhat like one of michael's "make up a term to describe something" crap. Teaching - reguardless of the means in which it is done, is teaching. Learning - reguardless of the means in which it is done, is learning. My little experiment is no 'emancipation' from anything, just a test of my idea. ... where am I going with this? ahh! Alec, yes... good ol alec. I didn't know he went back to challenger? Well, i've got one advantage over him.

I choose who joins. If you have the will to learn, and the concept of a "mind" (ie: ask questions, think) - then i'd more-than-likely allow you in. What alec had to deal with was the student who didnt want to learn. who sat down in class and expected the daily routine work of classwork/homework. 15 worksheets a week, that's 5 a day. I won't have the school-board to deal with (ie: tests to prove that what I am doing is working) and I don't have to organize myself for anyone but nobody. Jeff's idea that I should probably look towards the ASB if this actually works is a good idea - however I don't plan on attempting it anytime soon. Not that I wouldnt mind getting money, mind you, eh heh.... "school sponsored jimmy-day" anyone? but merely that I do not wish to take orders from anyone in the school. true- ill be using the school as a place to host it, but I believe i can get away with it for a limited amount of time, under the guise that were just a bunch of students who meet together after school and "talk about stuff." ... technically, that's all. I mean hey, look at cheer / drill / crimsun haze.

another thing - since i didnt know he was going back to challenger - one day when i stayed after to talk to alec he told me about his frustration with the school I currently go to : lack of enthusiasm. He told me he used to work at challenger and that the students there were brilliant - not in the manner of what they knew, but in the manner in that they wanted to know. He got only the students who wanted to come to school - as challenger has a program which allows people to do work, at home, and just come to school to turn it in. He came to Bethel in hopes that since Challenger was for "troubled" students that the "un-troubled" ones would be even greater. Unfortunately he, yes - im repeating myself, came to Bethel. I remember asking him that day "If you're so dissapointed, why dont you go back to Challenger?" - and I am surprised that he held out this long. He really, really had a troubled time - but he attempted to make the best of it.

"Hurrah for Alec! May his teaching days still bring joy!"


anywho. since there isn't any school I have a choice.
(a) Play thief 2 .. (b) do some pre-calculus homework ... (c) or sleep.
given those choices it looks like im going to hav-----

btw - the poory drewn heart and stick-people represent the most carnal of stick-man pornography ever known to man.                             yes, i dream stick figured pornography.
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