Brief Rant

I still hate my Yellow class, but they're getting better. I, haha, I wanted to say 'drugged'...I BRIBED them with drawing yesterday and they were better behaved in order to get the reward and then as they were drawing they were dead silent. It was great. Having them as my first class actually wears me down some days. Kinda like how 2nd block at AHS used to do. Luckily I didn't have 4th block in their place though. God, I wouldn't have made it. The only thing that got me through 4th block some days was knowing that I could go home soon.

I need to figure out which words my EFL7 class actually understands, though...Sometimes I'll say something to them and just get blanks stares..

Later, in my Indigo class, we were reading about King Tut and his mysterious death and whatnot and we got to a part that said in 2000 the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, or whatever it's called, started using advanced x-ray technology on the mummy. One of my kids pointed out that 2000 was the year he was born. I guess it kind of caught me off guard to think that, soon, people who were born in 2000 will be in high school. These people have no memories of September 11th happening, which means that it most likely had less of an effect on their lives and maybe we can stop using it to justify things with the younger generations of people. I was never really affected by the Cold War (being born the year the Berlin Wall came down and just a few years before the collapse of the Soviet Union) and I don't understand how people can justify war and hatred over different ideology like that. Maybe these kids can be a new voice of reason against the kinds of things we're doing around the world in order to tout our failing power and crumbling influence. We just have to remove the old people and the closed-minded asses from power first.

And also get the young people to care....Which is always a difficult task..