February 28, 2007
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Wait and See
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I don’t believe it! It’s hard to believe, but the Air Force is comming around! They are jumping through all the hoops and making it happen! We WILL be staying untill June!! WOOT! Way to go Commander — I think I love you!
The Commander has the ball in her court and is trying to work something out — lets just say we aren’t counting on it. Realistically there are just a lot of very high hoops that would have to be jumped before we could stay until June as originally planned. So mentally we are prepared to leave at the end of April. We will be selling back some leave, but we feel it is vital to have Silver_Fangz stay here until she finishes confirmation — otherwise she has to repeat the whole year of it. It is a two year program and she has put so much into it, it includes church missions, community service, church service and weekly classes. The fact that she stuck with it even though her two friends dropped out and she not a “part” of the group — says a lot for her dedication, but it hasn’t been a lot of fun for her and she has said she won’t do it over again. Course here the group is all Hawaiian kids that have know each other forever, there is no way she breaking into that group. Still, I can see why she wouldn’t want to have that not count at all just because we moved during the last month.
If we stay till end of April then it will only be 5 weeks till school is out. We have decided if it OK with SF best friend’s mom we will allow her to stay here until then. It’s not ideal, but it would break her heart to leave her friends before she absolutely had to. Unfortunately, none of Squirt’s friends have homes that I would be willing to trust her in. Besides, she’s my baby and she’s only 13. So she’ll go with us.
It’s crazy – but there it is.
The worst is the not knowing. I just want to know something, even if I have to take matters into my own hands and say, screw the Air Force, this is what we’re doing — we are retiring and leaving and to heck with the shop and their needs, to heck with the Air Force and their needs and lets do what’s best for the family.
To top that all off I have a professor in one of my classes that is the epitome a poor teacher. He’s supposed to give assignments the week prior to the week they are due (like assignments for week 7 given out in week 6), this is according to his syllabus. We’ve been getting them the MIDDLE of the week they are due. The assignments go way beyond what is necessary to master the skills learned that week. (busywork). He gives no feedback — absolutely NONE — not one word to anyone. Now he is not even following the topics for assignments from his syllabus. Instead he’s reassigning stuff we’ve already done but making it longer (more busy work). I’m learning in this class, but it’s no thanks to him! All the classes I’ve taken through all my educational process as a teacher identify him as a poor teacher.
When I e mailed him wondering about assignments and feedback he claimed that the college didn’t want assignments given out in advance (you mean the college doesn’t want us to know what we are going to do and doesn’t want us to have the full time to complete — wow, first course I’ve heard of that in!). He also claimed that my feedback came from my peers and as long as I was keeping up I should know what my grade is. HUH??? I supposed to rely on my peers for instructional feedback in a technical class? Aren’t they learning too? Most of them don’t even complete the assignment as assigned — doing most of their work in Word — :rolls eyes:
At least I have a sterling example to hold up as the sort of teacher I NEVER want to be.
Question of the Day:Worst teacher you ever had and why?
Comments (18)
I think my worst teacher was my 10th grade geometry teacher. He had a second job doing the mail route, and he did that more than he was in class. I learned nothing but got an A. I think everyone got an A as long as they didn’t tell on him for how much he was missing.
Hope you are having a great hump day to day………………hugs.:celebrate::big-smile:
Oh bless your heart! I had to go back and read the other entry so I was up to speed. Sounds like you are making logical choices but I am so sorry it has to be like that. The AF has the reputation of being more family friendly, but considering this, well it doesn’t sound that way to me. My hubby is retired AF and his last job was a career killer too. He got out after 23 years, but he still loves the service and goes out of his way to help when we have military students here. Things will work out well, I’m sure!
Sounds also like you got the cream of the crop on your teacher! I had to intern with the worst teacher I ever “had”. She was horrible, flirting with the little boys, trying to please and fit in with the girls, and making fun of other students. She was getting married that semester and could not have cared less about her class. I was 21 at the time and my disgust with her was written all over my face. She disliked me so much that she wanted to fail me in my internship, but my supervising teacher said there is no way someone does A work in one class and F in another. Fortunately for me, I was working with two teachers in my internship and the other one rated my work as an A or I would not have graduated on time because of her! VERY bad teacher!
I hope it all works out the way you want it.
And the worst teacher I ever had? Hmm… had to be my high school World History teacher. I know they hired him as a basketball coach, because he was dumber than a fence post… but DAYUM, he looked good in those shorts! Nice looking Italian guy, fresh out of college. I LOVED HIM! *drool* But still the worst *teacher* I ever had. LOL
Trish
I had to think a while, because I did not have many bad teachers and also because it has been a long while since I had a teacher, but there is one that was definitely a nightmare for me. It was the gym teacher at the Junior High I attended for three years (grade 7, 8, and 9), so I had her for three interminable, horrible years. Being a little chunky at that age was the worst thing for someone in her class. She had a definite aversion to girls that had any extra weight. Her favorites were the tiny sticklike girls that looked like gymnasts. She would make girls run until they fainted or threw up, no excuses. Even the boys were relieved they did not have her for their teacher. I didn’t like her because I thought she was mean, and if she took a dislike to you, you had to have her every day for three years. She ruined the whole idea of fitness for me for years.
Yay! : ) :dancingcow:
So glad it seems to maybe, possibly, work out for you to stay until June!!
Worst teacher I ever had… A nun in first grade who disliked children, including me! She would slam her ruler on your desk to get your attention, coming close enough that I thought she was going to hit me in the face. I would run to the bathroom and throw up each morning before school. Finally, she confronted me. (In my memory, she was this HUGE, black dressed monster!) She said, “You don’t like me, do you?” Being told not to lie, I stammered, and answered… “No, I don’t!” After that, she left me alone… go figure! But, for the life of me, I can’t remember her name!
:dancingcow:
So glad it has all worked out!
Still trying to think about who was my worst teacher!
I’m more than a little relieved that everything may just work out after all for you guys. First, Ducky left on that island with all those boys makes my head spin a bunch. Secondly, money is cool and I think you guys should have some! Lastly, you had already planned to leave in the summer and the military should have learned by now that what the spouse says goes! :tongue:
Man, so much going on for you guys!
Probably my worst teacher was Mr. Kertez in 5th grade. He was just really, really sleazy and creepy. He gave off a really uncomfortable vibe. I hate to say it, but I’d be surprised if at some point he wasn’t accused of “inappropriate” behavior with a student. Ick. I feel pretty lucky when I think back on my teachers. Many of them were just fabulous and left a strong positive impression on me.
Yay for your good news! What a frustrating situation! To me, that’s one of the worst things about military life….the not knowing! It’s a killer. It’s very hard to adjust to not having control of your own life. thank goodness though, it sounds like everything will work out for you guys : )
BTW: your teacher sounds like the equivalent of a quack, lol!
:dancingcow:woohooo:dancingcow: glad the commander came through what a relief! so happy for ya!~
I am so happy that you get to stay til June :dancingcow: Great for the kids!
Have a wonderful day hugs
so glad to hear you have more time to prepare :celebrate:
Yeah for the commander, hope she prevails, and I don’t blame SF, I would not want to redo 2 years worth of stuff that was not “fun” to begin with….and I know how hard it must have been for her to have only the local kids (read native and not haule) to be around, it is so sad that they aren’t inclusive, especially in a church setting….when we are in Maui, Sarah just barges right in and won’t let them exculd her, don’t know exactly how she does it, but by the end of our visit, she has a pack of local friends that she keeps in touch with through e-mail.
Worst teacher I ever had….that is not so easy, cause I actually had two of them, and they were BOTH the main teacher for my major focus. The first was my Spanish teacher during my bachelors degree, I was a Spanish major, and he sucked royally, he was so inept, I don’t know how in the world he ever got his doctorate!…I barely graduated without killing him!…I made straight A’s in his classes, but it was no big deal to me, cause I felt it was like stealing candy from a baby.
The second one hurt the most, it was duirng my nursing school, that would be THE nursing school I entered solely to become a maternity nurse, that was all I wanted to do, bring babies into this world….so, who do you think was the very worst teacher on the faculty?….Yep, the OB professor…it wasn’t so much that she was a bad teacher, just that she was mean, and she would search for the “buttons” to push on each student, for me, she zero’d into the fact that OB was my love, so she made it her mission to make sure I did not get as much clinical time in OB as the others, she kept putting me into the high risk obstetrics where the focus was to KEEP the women from delivering!….little did she know that eventually that would be become my area of expertise, AFTER I had worked as an OB nurse for 5 years, I then became the head nurse in the high risk obstetrics department, the classes that are taught to the high risk momas with gestational diabetes at Kaiser Permanente were written by me, over 15 years ago…HAH!, if life gives you lemons, you just have to make it into lemonade..
Man that’s a lot of stuff going on. Love the edit though. Yay. That is great you can stay. That will make things much easier.
Worst teacher I had was Mr Lusk for Home Ec. Ugh. He stunk really bad and was just an annoying dweep who didn’t really want to be teaching but was anyway. Back in the day when NO teacher was ever let go. He rode a moped and skulked around the campus. Creepy.
Oh, I’ve had some doozies for teachers. First one that comes to mind was in the 5th grade for science who made us put a chair on the floor on its side and sit on it if we happened to fall over backwards. She showed us a metric conversion chart and called it a “dummy ladder” if we actually used it. Nice.
How fantastic that your dh’s commander has come through for you! :celebrate:
Worst teacher was one my son had in third grade. She made him go to the office or sit outside the classroom every single day, but her classroom aide never told me until the last day of school. I could have hit both of them! Ironically, when Chris cross-age tutored in 7th grade, they assigned him to her classroom. I was concerned, but he said she treated him differently. At his 8th grade graduation, she told me that Chris was the best cross-age tutored she’d ever had! Go figure!