teacher jobs

[daisy]

with my super albino energy i have always been a hard worker.
while attending community college i stayed on the deans list alot.
once my western civilization instructor was impressed with my top grades in her class and
offered me the chance to sign up for becoming a teacher.
the teacher deal offered to pay for me all the way up to a phd.
the teacher deal also allowed them to send me to any schools where they wanted me to teach.
this was a great offer yet i passed on this teaching offer mostly because of my nervous stomach health problems.
a teaching offer would be good for a healthy person
that would like to travel to teach at schools
be aware that not all yet
some schools can be more dangerous than others
teachers quitting out of fear
www.suntimes.com/output/education/skulside12.html

[daisy]

i am glad i did not sign the contract for this teaching offer because i ended up having to have a few hospital surgeries right after i was offered this teaching job.

[daisy]

teachers just about have to be therapist now a days
because their students have so many
behavioral disorders
1) they demonstrate behavior that is noticeably different from that expected in school or the community and
(2) they are in need of remediation.
in each instance, the student is exhibiting some form of behavior that is judged to be different from that which is expected in the classroom.
the best way to approach a student with a "conduct disorder" and a student with a "behavioral disorder" is
to operationally define exactly what it is that each student does that is discrepant with the expected standard. once it has been expressed in terms of behaviors that can be directly observed, the task of remediation becomes clearer. a student's verbally abusive behavior can be addressed, whereas it is difficult to directly identify or remediate a student's "conduct disorder," since that term may refer to a variety of behaviors of widely different magnitudes.
the most effective and efficient approach is to pinpoint the specific behavioral problem and apply data-based instruction to remediate it.
www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content2/behavior_disorders.html

[daisy]

a teaching offer would be good for a healthy person
that would like to travel to teach at schools
never mind i take that back
posted on fri, apr. 21, 2006
chicago teacher's blog outrages students
chicago - typing rambling screeds in an anonymous blog he called
"fast times at regnef high," a fenger high school teacher unleashed his frustration over the chaos he saw around him.

he labeled his chicago students "criminals," saying they stole from teachers, dealt drugs in the hallways, had sex in the stairwells, flaunted their pregnant bellies and tossed books out windows.
he dismissed their parents as unemployed "project" dwellers who subsist on food stamps, refuse to support their "baby mommas" and bad-mouth teachers because their no-show teens are flunking.

he took swipes at his colleagues, too - "union-minimum" teachers,
literacy specialists who "decorate their office door with pro-black propaganda," and security officers whose "loyalty is to the hood, not the school."

in his blog, the teacher did not identify himself or his students, the exact name of his school or even the city where he taught.
but like all bloggers, he wanted an audience, so he wrote in his blog that he had leaked news of his site to a few coworkers. soon enough,
the 30-year-old teacher's name was the talk of the school.

this week, after returning from spring break,
the students read how they were depicted and flamed the blog with profane threats and righteous indignation toward the teacher.
by thursday, the reaction grew so vitriolic that the blogger took down his site from blogger.com.
also that day, a fenger high teacher e-mailed his principal that he wasn't coming to school because he "feared for his safety."
the teacher was the same one widely believed to have authored the blog because he told two colleagues that it was his, fenger principal william johnson said.

johnson said he doesn't know whether the teacher has resigned, but he hasn't returned phone calls or replied to an email asking the teacher to meet with him. the teacher did not acknowledge to the principal that it was his blog, but johnson said he has no doubt, based on the writing style and his disappearance after the students named him in their postings. when he started the blog in february, he wrote as if he were the "brick and mortar" building named "regnef," - fenger spelled backwards - but then switched his voice and revealed he was a teacher.

in his final posting thursday, the teacher said he intentionally leaked his blog site to people he knew would "tell the world" because he wanted it to be read, but he didn't explain how he expected to remain anonymous.

johnson believes it will be difficult for the teacher to return to fenger, given the controversy. because the teacher is untenured, the principal can fire him without cause at the end of the school year or after 10 work days if he doesn't return.

"he's lost his credibility," johnson said. "he lost the faith and trust of his students."
the animosity stirred up by the blog fueled even more chaos in this embattled, all-black school on the city's far south side, among chicago's worst performing.
but the principal said the episode has galvanized the school in a way he had not thought possible - and is encouraging staff and students to talk openly about the problems and how to fix them.

"there is a silver lining," he said. "it brought fenger together." johnson said he plans to hold student forums next week to discuss the blog, both the antagonism it revealed and the challenges that need to be fixed.
"he was painting a picture of desperation, and i had a problem with the generalizations he made," johnson said.
"but some of it was true, and that was the tragedy.
if he had gone about it in a different way, it could have been a great forum."

students also were outraged by the characterizations in the blog, even while acknowledging many of problems the teacher detailed.

latasha ivy, 17, senior class vice president, found out about the blog last week and read it with her mom. they were both angry about the crude stereotypes and
didn't understand why the teacher stayed if he was so miserable,
she said.
"these are things that happen at fenger - fights, drug-dealing, gangs - it happens here like it does at other high schools.
i already feel bad when i tell people i go to fenger, because they go, `ooooh, that's a bad school.' but there are still people here trying to do something with their lives," said latasha, who has been accepted at the university of illinois this fall and plans to study biology.

gerald rogers, 17, said the blog was a "big topic everywhere." he was struck by how many students read the site and posted comments. but he still found the teacher's observations "racist and derogatory."

"if he felt that way, why didn't he come up with any solutions to the problems?" asked gerald, the junior class president.
the teacher compared his suffering to jesus, mahatma gandhi and martin luther king jr., and suggested that many others who worked and studied in the building shared his opinions.

"do you not realize that many people go home and cry to their loved ones about what they experience here?
do you have any idea the psychological and emotional trauma that is inflicted on those who suffer because of the daily injustices and wrongdoings here?
to fear for your own safety?
to know that you will likely be unemployed, hated, spit on, punched, and have property destroyed?
this is not a one person blog. this is a building speaking for the suffering it sees every day."
one fenger teacher publicly challenged this view, both in a signed posting and in numerous conversations with her english classes.

"although many of our students adopt tough facades and insist they are grown, they are still children: sensitive children who still crave guidance, encouraging words and positive reinforcement," wrote teacher gina miski. "was the author present when students, having read the blog, dejectedly hung their heads with pained, angry tears stinging their eyes?"
note: at fenger, every day at dismissal time a special police task force of 15 extra cops had to come to the school to get the area cleared without violence.
www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/nation/14400789.htm

[daisy]

he labeled his chicago students "criminals"
one school, robeson, on the southside (a very bad area)
had its own jail cell inside the school, 10 cops assigned to the school regularly
and a paddy wagon on call parked outside at all times.
these days kids have to go thru metal detectors to get in the schools

with that teacher job offer i got
that is probally what was in store for me
to be sent to teach at an all black school
where it is hard to put up with the daily crap
horror stories about student behavior:
fights, sex, drugs, drinking, obscene language,
total lack of respect for adults, death threats,
verbal expressions of hate for white people and
nearly total lack of serious study and learning by students.

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[daisy]

here is the fast times at regnef high blog
posted by regnef @ 12:29 PM 5 comments
crying wolf
aptly titled, it's what we do best here at regnef.
in a literal sense, this could be verified via the 5 false fire alarms this week alone. 2 on friday march 31, 2 on thursday march 30, and 1 earlier in the week. nothing like 30 minute breaks in the courtyard to negate the rare actual 5 day work week! (well, almost a full week - friday was a 1/2 day).

you see at regnef, every monday is a holiday/day off - whether pulaski day, martin l. King day, president's day, lincoln's birthday, columbus day...
the list goes on and on.
ironically, i doubt that any of those we "honor" if given the option, would elect to close schools. these men were big on education. they would be the type to say "have school on saturday to honor me". but nope - at regnef we close the doors, and the students don't know a lick about mlk or lincoln, definitely not a thing about pulaski, and can't name all the presidents, let alone honor them.

naturally, this just might be the reason that students don't ever beleive they're actually in school. with so many 3 day weekends, 4 days of school doesn't seem like much to put forth effort toward.
this is, of course, not counting the fact that
regnef has record low attendance on fridays and mondays due to
"student imposed" holidays; that is, they just don't feel like coming to school.

let me get back on track: crying wolf; the 5 false fire alarms in 1 week.
note, there were several in the previous 2 weeks as well.
i'd guesstimate about a dozen or so this year alone. not sure how much that costs the school in terms of fines, but one thing it definitely earns is the scorn of firefighters. can you blame them?
i mentioned the gathering in the courtyard during alarms. this is apparantly a new security procedure - since there have been several violent incidents this week in which they evacuated via standard routes and the usual street mob gathering ended up in an ambulance being called.
and yes, i love the courtyard. i somehow doubt that evacuating 1,200 students from the building via only 3 exits to the courtyard would be the most timely way to save lives if there were a real fire,
but it's the new standard.
highlights today included students smoking weed while leaning against the assistant principal's vehicle and local neighborhood gangbangers jumping the fence to get into the courtyard.
additionally, a new "trouble shooter" has been called upon to assist regnef. the gentleman won't really say what his position is, and has no title.
when asked, he said "i do whatever the principal needs". he usually walks the halls with a walkie-talkie,
but you have to wonder if it's a front and he's really reporting back about the teachers. all good surveillance needs better counter surveillance.
then again, maybe he really is here to help. time will tell.
a formal introduction to the staff might be a more professional angle to take, instead of just showing up and walking the halls.
more smoke and mirrors: regnef has a new group of tough-talking security guards in suits that mostly intimidate and bluff the students with empty threats. nothing like calling in the cavalry in the 26th week of school to make sure the place runs as it should.

how about those security cameras? they rock.
the amount of fellatio performed and drugs sold in the stairwells continues to grow, since there are no cameras there and security sure won't walk the stairs. walking/rotating patrols are not a standard security procedure here at regnef. instead, our guards like to sit on desks or chairs and chat on their cell phones. their behavioral patterns are predictable and known by students; when they take lunch, when they sleep, and which guards will let you do whatever you want. additionally, because they do not rotate, guards become friendly with students. the students give false respect in return for the favor of walking the halls, selling snacks and cd's, and treating teachers in whatever fashion they deem appropriate. (usually the same way an interrogator may treat a hostage at gitmo or abu-ghraib).
the guards are neighborhood locals who may be friends of the students' families, church members, or dating a relative. the loyalty is to the hood, not the school. the administration at regnef need to understand and change this.

then again, "you get what you pay for". that was the explanation offered up by regnef's principal in response to some teacher's laptop being stolen from a locked classroom.
this guy's was the 6th of the year -all from locked classrooms.
that students were recorded on camera either picking a lock or using a key for entry (believe me, they're not skilled enough to pick a lock because that skill acquisition actually requires discipline, patience, and practice).
this means they have keys. wonder who they get those from? could it be the teachers who regularly have the students selling candy bought at wholesale for "fundraisers"?
true, a rare few fundraisers are legitimate efforts at raising money for teams that are denied the basic finances to buy needed equipment. the shame is that teachers have no real knowledge as how to fundraise or win grants properly.
most times, however,
there is simply an arrangement that the student will share 1/2 the profit with the supplier (teacher with a costco card).
there are teachers in schools with an army of student "salespeople" working for them who make literally thousands of dollars yearly on these ventures. how embarassing.

back to theft at regnef: kids with keys, security and administration with no accountability. apparantly it was a teacher's fault last week when a borrowed lcd projector was stolen from a locked classroom. this teacher was informed of his tremendous faults, while volunteering at the school on a sat. morning, by the principal. (this poor sap is one of those who had a laptop stolen and was told that the solution was to claim it on homeowner's insurance because the school wasn't responsible).
granted, it was passed from colleage to colleague (the library where it was checked out and to be returned to is notoriously closed or unattended) and that ain't right. but later, the lcd was mysteriously "returned". turns out that one of the coaches, who in some abstract way feigns security guard status, errand runner for the "discipline office" (or just hangs out in there) had "borrowed" the projector from a locked classroom to watch game film with it. the reamed-out teacher is still waiting for that admission or a quasi-apology of sorts from the principal, but it won't come.
and what exactly does that coach do at regnef anyway?
(besides re-locate expensive equipment without telling anyone.)
no one really knows.
in fact, does anyone know if any of the disciplinarians or security "experts" indeed have any expertise or training? the head of discipline was a band teacher for over 20 years, until this year when appointed to head of the discipline office. that expertise must have been gained overnight or in some super-seminar. perhaps this very well-paid official can teach regnef's criminals how to play the trumpet, because consequences sure aren't being taught.

on the security note: when the a.p. was asked today "why can't cell phones, hats, hoodies, and music players be confiscated on the way in the door when bags are scanned and students go through the metal detectors,
for later retreival by parents?",
the answer was: "we're doing what we can to get to june 16, those are things that maybe we'll consider for next year." nevermind that this is a policy that can be implemented in a matter of days. nevermind that it would likely greatly reduce these problems:-
students texting or calling one another to schedule fights, fellatio, drug deals, or notifying one another as to the location of security personnel so they can be avoided.- students calling outsiders during false alarms who deliver weapons to the school - like the gun earlier this week.- students ignoring staff because they are listening to their music players- the sale of illegally copied cd's by students (and staff)- students calling their friends and baby-daddies during class. these are things staff must deal with in the halls of regnef everyday.
but instead, the administrative priority is to station staff in front of fire alarm boxes so they can't be pulled. don't mind the fights occuring in the now-unattended classrooms, the textbooks, chalk, erasers, and people being thrown out of windows, the vandalism, or the theft of teacher items.
a band-aid is better than a cure; that's the attidude at regnef.
i wonder if secretly there is no confidence that security can handle a task as simple as contraband confiscation? or a fear that security may in fact steal the items? or are they so worried that this may generate media attention from inconvenienced parents who have to retreive their little darling's electronics and gang-banging hoodie and hat of choice, or may attempt to hold the school liable via bogus lawsuit threats for lost or stolen items?
the fact is, regnef has no idea as to its legal procedural rights.
confiscation of contraband is one of them.
and why institute a standard blue/white dress code? i mean, it's so much more fun to decipher which gang is being represented by appropriately chosen colors, teams, symbols, etc.
amazing - 83% of the school gets government paid free or reduced
(about 40 cents) breakfast/lunch,
but 83% of the students at regnef can also somehow afford $100 nba jerseys, several pairs of gym shoes, and some really hideous fake-fur pimp-coats that look to be constructed of road kill.
and there's nothing more appealing than the young ladies who wear their full pregnant bellies with pride, tiny half t-shirts proudly displaying that sexy newly attained protrusive belly button and mammaries, and the new "ink of the week".
lots of student names being tattooed on backs, necks, arms, and wrists.
in case they forget who they are. and "f**k the ville!" "dirty 130's run this pregnant dog!" "gdn!" (gangster disciples nation, for those less in-tuned to the local gang acronyms)
at least, that's what the airbrushed t-shirts that are allowed in regnef say! that is, the ones that don't have pictures of handguns or
serve as cotton tombstones letting us all know that
"lil' wayne, gone but never forgotten, rip 1993- 2000".
dress code? bah! regnef loves it this way!

the saga continues: 2 teachers cars with tires flattened this week. 3 weeks ago, a young guy had his car window bricked (for the second time) and his door smashed. course, his hubcaps were stolen months ago.

am i repeating myself? and the violence! who doesn't love a good stand-off between a teacher and a 19 year old 260 lb. special ed student
(who regnef supposedly "can't" kick out because of the sped designation)?

there's nothing like a man-child balling his fists and screaming "ima beat your mother f**king white pregnant dog ass, mother f**ker, i'll kill you, i will shot your f**king ass you f**king white pregnant dog" when a teacher asks him to evacuate the building during a fire alarm.

naturally, if that teacher were to defend himself verbally or physically, the kid's mom will be at the school, the teacher will be investigated, and that's that. there is the mistakenly held notion that "self-defense" means one must wait until the other "throws the first punch" in order to take action. this is incorrect. an individual has the legal right to defend him/herself in a hostile situation when an aggressor places the subject in a position in which immediate safety is compromised.
to all the johnny cochran wanna-be parents and students out there:
think again. you'll be laughed out of court. and to the administrators that think a teacher can "never" put hands on a student, you too should reconsider that.
the lawsuit faced because you have
verbalized instructions that result in teacher injury
("reactive" self defense instead of "proactive" self-defense)
will be much greater than the pathetic attempt at prosecution of a properly responding staff member.
the state doesn't even want to pursue a case in which, on camera, a student moves agressively toward a teacher and creates a hostile confrontation. if you tell a teacher to not act until acted upon, that teacher may be stabbed or seriously hurt before they feel they have a right to defend themselves. now that's lawsuit potential! it's techinically called "failing to provide a safe working environment", and it will be taken seriously by the courts - especially given regnef's reputation.

and what better to couple with violence than a serious drug problem?
the student caught last month possessing enough marijuana to distribute to the whole junior class (about 10 oz) was suspended for 10 days.
not arrested. not prosecuted. why not? because the school police officers were at the police station processing a previous in-school arrest
(i'm convinced they are among the hardest workers at regnef - likely because school politic consequences mean nothing to them; they are the police, and they do their job) and the security staff failed to search the dealer properly.
finally, after an unannouced 3-week vacation, the tech coordinator at regnef has been reprimanded by being removed from this position and appointed instead to a different, higher paying position - one that has no cumbersome responsibilities like computer or network maintenance. so regnef has no tech person now. when a pc or printer breaks - too bad! when grades have to be entered and the program must be activated by the tech coordinator - sorry!: cancun calls!
we shall see how many fire alarms are pulled next week...viva regnef!
the true house of illusions! i am regnef high school
i am regnef high school. i realize it may be awkward for some to fathom a high school having its own blog. but since everyone seems to be doing it these days, why can't an inanimate brick and mortar structure get in on the action? lord knows there are blogs out there written by those with less life than me. and trust me, i'm a living, breathing entity, though it may not appear so.
if mc hammer can do it, so can i - without the purple satin pajama pants.
a little about me: i am a large inner city public school located in a major metropolitan area. i am funded (if that's what you want to call it) by federal, state, and city tax dollars.83 % of my 1100 + students live at or below the national low income (poverty) rate: this means that
they receive free or reduced price lunch and other services. it also means that any taxable salary made in their households is so low, that essentially they pay no taxes - nothing toward my maintenance. that's for the other working stiffs to take care of. funny though, how the kids badmouth me and say i'm dirty, destroy or steal everything in me, set me on fire, and complain about the shape i'm in.
i bet the taxpayers would love to see all the books they paid for that are thrown out my windows each day.
23% of my students dropped out last year. and i have a only a 60% graduation rate.
over 300 of my students are classified as special-ed and receive services. i haven't met, let alone exceeded, state standards for adequate yearly progress in years. how many? let's just say a long time. the state says i'm on "academic watch", the feds say i'm undergoing "corrective action".
and the no child left behind act says that i've been identified for "school improvement." but hey, we can all use improvement, right?
all of my students at some time take the prairie state achievement exam (psae). the score range for this test is 120 at the lowest and 200 at the highest. my students score 15 - 20 points lower than the state average for reading, math, and science. when these are computated in a way that sums up the whole performance, i score a 7.4, the city averages a 31.7, and the state averages 54.9. so you can see, i'm pretty much at the bottom of the barrel of a system that itself is "underperforming". on the act, a test that colleges and universities use to gauge student acheivement and potential, my kids' composite (english, math, reading, and science combined) scores average a 14
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posted by regnef @ 12:30 PM 9 comments
more of the same at regnef
ah, it's been a while.what can i say? last week 2 fire alarms. the week before, 2 more. 1 today. from now on, i shall keep a log and see if there is a pattern. regnef continues to function in fine fashion.
it is virtually impossible to teach with the constant fighting and violence.
our technology coordinator has been gone for 3 weeks on an unannounced "vacation". in most classrooms, there are not functioning computers. even in the classrooms with newer pcs, there are no firewalls or safeguards to prevent students from installing their own programs, which they do regularly. they spend most classes dowloading porn and music videos.
we now have 2 "literacy leaders". too bad the board of education has reduced funding and cut one position, which means now they are both dying for a new job - their days are spent in efforts to create the illusion of worth.
mostly, they offer "solutions" to teachers that aren't in fact solutions.
this, and decorate their office door with pro-black propoganda.
apparantly the solution is simply to ensure that the students read only books by/about black americans. they need not know anything else in the world.

the vandalism of my hallways and classrooms continues. locked doorways have been kicked in. cabinets pried open.
on a positive note, one stolen laptop was recovered.
another testament to regnef's outstanding record:
of 247 junior students required to take the act to graduate, only 52% of them showed up for the practice exam.
regnef needs 97% to demonstrate "adequate yearly progress", a step toward getting off probation. as you can see, the liklihood of this is nill.
it is especially disconcerting that although welfare education bribes like free sat. test prep study sessions with breakfast amounts to an average of 8 students of 247. and so,
the worst opponents of regnef's students continue to be themselves.

[daisy]

the fast times at regnef high blog continued
friday, april 21, 2006
just not getting it...
oh boy, my halls are filled with fury! finally, the peeps of regnef are mad about something! good for them!
first of all, to all those leaving me messages of support: thank you.
now i know there are some people who care about what goes on inside of me!
secondly, to all those leaving messages of hatred, threats, or ignorance:
you have the potential to affect positive change at regnef, or to continue being the problem. it may be a misinterpretation of my stories on your part, but your quick conclusion-jumping reflects both someone passionate enough to do something good with me, or to be a part of the bigger problem.

one person's comments (and thank you whomever this was) really struck me, so i'll just quote parts of him or her:"many people overlooked the fact that perhaps this person intentionally made a one-sided view
to get people to speak on the positive and the negative,
calling both to light.
if she/he/it didn't say who they were, maybe it's because it doesn't matter -
the dialogue does. maybe it was to get people to point out the good too -
so that the school remembers what it can be proud of as well as what it can address! has no one considered this?
perhaps your blind anger and rage -especially if there are descriptions that hit home to some - are truly blind because:
maybe the writer is just putting out the comments that everyone in the building talks about behind each other's backs, but no one says out loud
all of you angry students say these very same things, and are upset at these very same problems, every day. you say it in the halls!

of course not everyone is one of the bad seeds described within this site, but let's not pretend there aren't serious problems! all you good kids, like aneisha, suffer because of them. all of the staff suffers too.
but no one created a community forum in which the anger, the frustration, and the real problems were called to light.
these always seem to go on in hallway converstations between students, and office conversations between staff.
maybe the author has a better sense of this community than you all give her/him credit for, and bit the bullet knowing she/he would be misinterpreted as a racist, as ignorant, or as back-stabbing. that was very brave, considering the cruel actions taken against teachers that are described here.

do you really think this person would be there if that were the case?
i'm sure she/he is far from perfect, but despite the opinions of lazy students and ignoramuses, no one has to teach at regnef - they choose to

how dare simple minded people threaten someone who deserves the benefit of the doubt. i'm sure she/he knew this would happen anyway, so your wish for another hard-worker who demanded responsibility, accountabilty, and support will be pushed out of regnef by your threats, your actions, your retaliations at something that isn't even meant to insult you.
how do you think it got this way? people like this are beaten down wrongly.

i will take this a step further and first address the most ignorant comments:- if you think someone is racist, perhaps you should look at the bigger scope of his/her life. bigger things go on outside of regnef.
one commentor mentioned that the person you "blame" for my writings does many things outside of regnef for the betterment of all people, black or white. "how dare you play the race card!" was a final welcome comment.
the problems at regnef are not black/white issues. neither is poverty, drug abuse, gangs, or violence. how dare you simplify this with your ignorant defensive stance that this is about race.

i can only write about what goes on inside my walls. if you want a story about problems in white schools - and there are plenty of problems in rich white suburban schools - then get a white building to write something! if they have the problems regnef does, they can surely benefit from talking about it too.

the people at regnef shouldn't be interested in fixing problems with meth, heroin, or "white" problems. this wasn't for them! "thank god for british lit!" said one person, sarcastically. well "thank god for afro-american history and for world studies and for teachers that incorporate the heroic stories of strong african-americans too!" is what i say. how dare you make this a race issue, knowing d*mn well the choices some people make - some of which you benefit from, some of which happen hundreds of miles from regnef!!-

this blog is written by a building. do you think this format is to "hide"?
it's done because the walls themselves are the only ones who can potray what is said in secrecy every day by the regnef community.
are the gripes and complaints here things that aren't said every day?

no way!! the myths, rumors, stories, truths, exaggerations, and stereotypes contained within this building's writings are just a written version of what is said here every day - but you pretend it doesn't. people who smile at the same time they stab their classmates or colleagues in their backs.
of course regnef knows all of its students and staff are not what's portrayed here! but they aren't the problem that needs to be owned up to! we all know there are many kids, parents, teachers and staff that are doing wonderful things! the hope was that they could figure out - this ain't about them!

if you're on the defensive, you're either guilty or you just don't get why this was written the way it was! my portrayals about groups or people here: these are things you say!- this could be a very big step in those at regnef having an anonymous avenue to contribute what they believe can fix it!
many people don't speak their minds or ask questions because they are afraid. this goes for students and adults - all ages, all colors, all backgrounds.

this could be the one thing that moves regnef in a positive direction, so say something positive!! speak about the good things going on here - there are lots of them! propose solutions about the things that need work.

but don't you dare fill my halls and now my journals with accusations, threats, hatred, and ignorance. there's enough of that in the world, and at regnef, already.
all you would do is validate the stories already noted in this fictional journal. the simple-mindedness of those who responded without full consideration of the methods and angles i employ in my sarcastic, tongue in cheek, and yet often true stories of life in my halls is not surprising.

perhaps you're so entrenched in your own bitterness that even your educated selves just don't get it anymore. maybe you're so tired of all the negative speak that this was the last straw. maybe you're tired of defending yourself, and working around regnef's b.s. you're not alone. but maybe now you'll dig deeper. maybe you'll take all that anger you've directed toward me and instead direct it toward those who put you in this position.
i didn't do it with this writing. and don't think for a second that only one person can be responsible for this writing. attaching a name to it does nothing. you be the leaders. don't look for a scapegoat to perpetuate your denial. names don't matter - that's why they were not used.

do you not realize that many people go home and cry to their loved ones about what they experience here? do you think these are the ramblings of one person?
do you have any idea the psychological and emotional trauma that is inflicted on those who suffer because of the daily injustices and wrongdoings here?
to fear for your own well-being? to know that you will likely be unemployed, hated, spit on, punched, and have property destroyed?
all because people just don't get it? because they don't know how much you really do care?
this is not a one person blog.
this is a building speaking for the suffering it sees everyday.
and as for those who are being blamed for my writing: i feel for you.
when jesus said "markets in the temple are wrong" he suffered.
when dr. King had a dream, he suffered. when ghandi said "no more", he suffered. martin luther had 95 ideas about things that needed to be changed in a system - he suffered too.
i have suffered enough. i have seen things in my lifetime that most people can't even fathom.
if you think you can put more suffering on this author, go right ahead.
standing alone is what i'm used to, by choice. i'm the only building on this whole block. i would rather stand that way than stand in the company of those filled with hatred, racism, excuses, and ignorance.
you'd just be another crucifier of those who dedicate their lives toward trying to change things for the better by calling life like it is.
every comment on this site - good or bad- is left up for your benefit - even if someone else suffers by those who jump on the hate and ignorance bandwagon."i guess we'll see what regnef is really all about by your actions, staff and students!" said one person. i think that sums it up. the future of regnef is up to you. now stop making excuses, start writing, and start acting rightly - at least you know others are willing to suffer with you to affect something positive.
regnef.blogspot.com/

[daisy]

stop making excuses and start acting rightly
it is a shame this dream will not come true but god bless the teacher
most fob muds do not or are not capable of acting right
much like you the gov is also fed up with the scum
that is why the scum will eventually be exterminated or
their offsprings will be breeded into albinos
teacher - i suggest you leave that large scummy place as soon as possible
before one of the many extermination processes gets around there
like examples let's see:
aids, flea-black death, mosquito-fever death, bird-flue death,
hazardous weather,
etc... etc... etc...
calling life like it is
yes one day the scum will be gone
no scum allowed in god's kingdom
after i've been watching the gov replace everyones offsprings
with pigmented albino offsprings
maybe i should go outside more and check out the insects
they might even have albino fleas, albino mosquitos, albino flies
i know they have albino butterflys, moths, birds, dogs, snakes, reptiles, etc...
and surveillance camera flys, spiders and bugs

yeah one does not have to be a great investigator to notice that
the normally clean birds who are born to only mix with their own kind
do not usually get diseases like avian influenza A (H5N1) virus.
and then just happen to go to china and give the disease to just everyone
in one community of occupants that just happen to all be in the chinese army
yes that is what happens when the chinese army starts getting too big
they send them the bird flu

[daisy]

teacher jobs ?
schools out forever !

[kenneth]

and i thought my school was bad