Teaching is Stupid

From: signpictures.net

...or so said one of my 12th graders last week.

My response: "So, what are you doing when you get out of here?"

Hers: "I'm going to be a pediatrician."


Good luck with that...

RIP, Mike Wallace

If anyone set the standard for television interviews, it was Mike Wallace.  Many shows have followed in the style of Mike Wallace and "60 Minutes"--"20/20," "Dateline," "48 Hours" and more.  But no one asked questions quite like Wallace.

I showed the clip above to my students today.  Even most of them paid attention!

Bombs and Balls

I didn't realized it had been so long since my last post.  Between the end of the quarter and being out of town for spring break, it was too long in between posts.

Showed this video in class before the break.  To me, it's the story of the ultimate bad neighborhood, as well as concentrating on the normal when nothing around you is normal.

Tebow Time in a New York Minute?

So Tim Tebow gets traded to the Jets the same week the Broncos (his former team) signs future Hall of Famer Peyton Manning--now what?

The question posed on CNBC: will Tim Tebow be more marketable in NYC?  I'm not sure that he will be.  If he spends his time in New York as a backup who never sees the field, Tebow's not going to see any more endorsements.  However, if Tebowmania emerges like Linsanity did, look out!

The Ultimate Group Project

I was watching this 60 Minutes segment on Aerosmith, and after hearing all of the comments from the band about lead singer Steven Tyler (and all of Steven Tyler's comments about the rest of the band), I came to realize that rock bands are really the ultimate group project.

Aerosmith has been together for 42 years.  I had my students think about being in the same group for 40 years--living together, working together, partying together.  I know:  some of our students can't even work together for 42 minutes.