Sorry but I am not new. I have ben going on to the daily kitten for 2 years.

Sorry I forget something this is ‘The daily kitten’ not ‘The daily dog’

Hi Brittany. It’s OK for people to talk about other subjects - the people who come here may have been attracted initially by the kittens, but they have plenty of other interests in common.

Thanks.

Yourwellcome Kittenmaster.

My aunt taught at HISD for years and she once made a disruptive student put his leather jacket on backwards, had some other students fasten it up, and made him go and sit in the trash can until ’she got tired of looking at him’

She could never get away with that now. LOL

How about tranquilizer darts?

What you need to do is get it set up so that there is a day where the state legislators are teachers and have to deal with the classroom antics.

The next day you would have full riot armor, mace, and stun guns.

Amen, brother. I also believe that no professor in a teaching college should ever go more than 5 years without a year in a Title I classroom (that’s a room in which a significant number of students live at or below the poverty line). I guarantee some of these whacked-out ideas that come from academia would stop! Of all of my students in all the grades I teach, I can count on one hand the the number of parents that have e-mail addresses.

Another thing that I love is that some of these school in our area require reasearch papers to be done on the internet only and not use library references.

Some of them have also said that they want papers from the middle school students to be typed up on a computer.

What happened to teaching kids how to write, read from books, and use the library???

To answer your questions individually,

Writing: text messaging
Read from books: TV, PS3 and the PC
Use the library: What? You make us get out of bed before noon, dress like you want instead of like inmates and “ho”’s the way we want, put away our cell phones, listen to what your saying, and you expect us to WORK, too? That’s not fair, Miss!

I just received this from a teacher friend.

Too close to the truth to be funny.

No Child Left Behind - Football Version!

The football version of what is going on in education
right now. (If you’re not an educator, this may not
make a lot of sense to you. )

1. All teams must make the state playoffs and all
MUST win the championship. If a team does not win the
championship, they will be on probation until they are
the champions, and coaches will be held accountable.
If after two years they have not won the championship
their footballs and equipment will be taken away UNTIL
they do win the championship.

2. All kids will be expected to have the same football
skills at the same time even if they do not have the
same conditions or opportunities to practice on their
own. NO exceptions will be made for lack of interest
in football, a desire to perform athletically, or
genetic abilities or disabilities of themselves or
their parents.

ALL KIDS WILL PLAY FOOTBALL AT A PROFICIENT LEVEL!

3. Talented players will be asked to workout on their
own, without instruction. This is because the coaches
will be using all their instructional time with the
athletes who aren’t interested in football, have
limited athletic ability or whose parents don’t like
football.

4. Games will be played year round, but statistics>
will only be kept in the 4th, 8th, and 11th game.

5. It will create a New Age of Sports where every
school is expected to have the same level of talent
and all teams will reach the same minimum
goals. If no child gets ahead, then no child gets
left behind.

6. If parents do not like this new law, they are>
encouraged to vote for vouchers and support private
schools that can screen out the non-athletes and
prevent their children from having to go to school
with
bad football players.

I’ve got to send that to my mom - she was a teacher. She retired and couldn’t be happier about it.

She told me that the stuff she taught freshmen when I was a freshman she couldn’t teach her seniors by the time she retired because the didn’t have the background to understand it.

I use to teach martial arts and my students lost the attitude really quick because I refused to tollerate it.

Sometimes I think I was more involved in their lives that their parents were

see, THAT’s why I got out of teaching. And just in time, apparently–in my last weeks of teaching, back in 1997, I had to deal with my first case of students putting inappropriate information about other students on the computer. It wasn’t even on the Web, back then–it was just a lab computer–but the amount of bureaucracy that got involved in just that little event was enough to make me realize that it was only going downhill from there (that, and the time when one of the students put chalkboard cleaner in another teacher’s coffee cup and did NOT get expelled when the teacher drank it and had to go to the hospital. I loved teaching, but it wasn’t worth risking my life!)

I don’t particularly care for the photo, either. I think it has more to do with the fact that it’s a tiny kitten–so helpless and vulnerable. Perhaps if it happened to be a fully-grown cat (like my 16 pound bruiser, Gabriel), it would be less objectionable…

I thought so too. That’s what I found so cute about it. It looks like he just squeezed out of the couch cushions. By no means would I endorse shooting a little kitten with a suction cup arrow.

I remember that! So cute. Somebody should put a dvd out for best animal ads.

Does anyone remember the commercial with a white persian -like cat named Precious? It was a carpet commercial. A caged bird was saying, Precious, dinner time!
I swear it took me several times of seeing that to realize that it was an ad for carpet. I was laughing to hard and caught up by the cuteness of the kitty to pay attention. I think the cat ate the bird!

Thanks! I promise not to slip away with her (crossing fingers behind back).