Oh wear or wear did proper grammar go?

Well. My title is an intentional pun. Kids these days can't read or write. Sweeping generalization? I think not. I am teaching two sections of a Grade 12 Literacy course for students who failed a standardized literacy test, twice. Scary. This course consists of seven activities that need to be completed in 3 separate blocks of time. Needless to say, its boring as hell for the kiddos. Well as exciting as I am in person, the content I am given to work with, is not. I am teaching the kids who hate to read and hate to write. Usually you get a few of those kind of kids in your classes, but not 20 of them. My days consist of tracking down children who skip. Parents who don't care that they skip. And yelling at children who can't actually give a .... to come on time or at all. Beautiful. I also have some incredibly sweet kids who just need a lot of help. A class of 20 students is not the best environment for me to provide the best help possible. However, I do what I can. In other schools this class maxes out at 7 students. But hey... I'm a dreamer right?

Because I have not have had enough literacy during the day, I teach a co-curricular literacy study group twice a week, to make sure we don't have so many kids failing the literacy test-- and having to take the course during the school year. I am totally a literacy guru. Well I shouldn't say that. Any little grammar faux pas could get me in trouble. I take it back. Read to your kids folks. Really read to your little ones. Help them with their homework. I know we are all busy. But truly--knowledge is power-- right? It starts at home.

That's my rant.

I am also teaching media studies. Media studies rocks. I am teaching them all sorts of fun things about tv, film, radio, journalism, advertisements, etc. Send interesting links my way. I am currently teaching a unit on reality tv. SUPER! (This is not sarcasm). : )

Anyways. This weekend is the big conference I told you about a while back. I have a really short week. This rocks.

27 Days till Vacation.

Woot.