When I moved to North Florida at the age of eight I managed to piss off my third grade teacher FOREVER by not calling her M'am my first day in class.
Mrs. W.: Trudy, you can take your seat now, fourth back in the third row.
Trudy: Thank you
Mrs. W.: Thank you
what
?
Trudy: Thank you... very much?
She
flipped.
And I seriously spent all of third grade (and no other grade ever, mind you) being considered a "discipline problem". It was incredible and a little terrifying. Once I whispered in class and was physically dragged by my arm to the principal's office where I was literally thrown into a chair and screamed at by the two of them. I received an extensive lecture about how I was an unruly child because my Mother didn't paddle me. (Oh, they were right pissed that she'd told them they couldn't.)
When I returned North my teachers started or gave an embarassed laugh when I said Sir and M'am.
So my thoughts on the whole "Sir/M'am" thing are a bit... intense. It's a nice enough custom but that's all it is -- its not actual respect.
My Grandmother went on to teach in that county for a 20+ years. That particular teacher and principal were widely regarded as incompetent. As teachers were hard to find and the Principal was married to a big shot (seriously, she was a political appointee -- weird) however, they both had their jobs until retirement.
Dear God, please keep Barak Obama safe. He's got little kids, and a wife who loves him. He's got work to do here, and I really think he isn't done doing it. Please.
I have those same thoughts, but can't bring myself to write them out. I mean, I now live in DALLAS. I want him to visit, but then I think back to an incident 40 years ago or so, and think "no! Stay away! Don't tempt the gods!" Not that there is some kind of Dallas magnet for that type of thing. Bush has been here loads of times, right?
Oh, I don't require, ask, or even expect my students to call me "ma'am." I just give them the courtesy.
Oh, I don't require, ask, or even expect my students to call me "ma'am." I just give them the courtesy.
I think as a teacher, particularly of teenagers, I'd want a certain formality as the default. Then when you drop it that actually
means
something.
OMG, some general in Miami is "extremely interested" in having Joe come work for him. I can not take three more years of year round hot!! But I feel like a shitty wife for putting my weather concerns over more substantive career stuff. Still, Florida is full of hurricanes and my in-laws! And there is no fall or winter to make up for it.
McCain campaign did claim his war wound prevents him using computers.
I think I just heard erika's head explode.
Still, Florida is full of hurricanes and my in-laws!
You'd be near Laura, at least.
Yes, that was on my mind ... as I sat there boggling at the thought.
McCain campaign did claim his war wound prevents him using computers.
So much for the phrase "Adapt & Improvise". I guess that's a USMC thing, not a Navy thing. Hell, I've adopted the phrase. You can't survive in the world saying "I can't do...". Find a way that you can. If it involves someone helping you, so be it.
Still, Florida is full of hurricanes and my in-laws!
I just visited the NOAA Hurricane Center. To my astonishment, they have a big map of the Atlantic with "No Tropical Cyclones at this time". First time ever for me. Granted, I usually only look when I suspect one is bearing down on me or loved ones. Guess it's not like earthquakes in CA.
