No more teaching for me

Well, its official...I've given up on trying to teach again...after 5 long, exhaustive, arduous years of trying to get back into teaching...only to be thwarted and shot down left and right by the bureaucratic powers that be...I have a totally new job!

On Monday I will start training to be a Sleep Technician...who says old dogs can't learn new tricks?

In this horrid economy and the total weirdness of this little town, I know I am blessed beyond belief to be able to snag this job.

One thing about the teaching though...is that I was really good at it...won awards, and things like that...had great praise from students and parents alike...but I never could seem to understand most of the administration types that controlled the schools. Now, my first principal was brilliant...he was absolutely fabulous...but I left that school to take another position in my academic field. The next principals were all ridiculous. If people want to look into what is wrong with a goodly lot of our schools, take a long hard look at the administrators.

Ok, I got that off my chest, and I hopefully can bury that and move on to the next phase of my life.

One more little thing, I've been frequenting a web site for teachers for almost 12 years now. I made friendships and was mentored and nurtured by many wonderful teachers I met there. But, for several years now, there have been these people that visit that really have some hatred for teachers and take pot shots at (us) any chance they get. There are also these holier-than-thou know-it-alls that come in and attempt to discredit all teachers because they don't measure up to some weird, contorted view they've created of themselves.

I don't understand people that are so judgmental, so narrow in their view, and have such poor comprehension skills that they fail to understand or at least acknowledge the point or message that is being expressed. They get so frothed up with their own opinion and self-importance and are so ego-bound that there is no way to have an exchange of thoughts or ideas with them. Know anyone like that?

I will try to put all that teacher stuff behind me and move into a more technologically advanced and scientific world...what an adventure!

Mama Africa is gone...

Miriam Makeba recently died. She was known to many as Mama Africa. Her music was electric, sacred, beautiful...I first heard her Pata Pata song when I was around 12...that song was my entry into South Africa and the political and human situations that were too long endured there...Rest In Peace Mama Africa.

http://www.miriammakeba.co.za/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/nov/11/miriam-makeba-obituary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pygqt0uwnuc&feature=related