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"You win a few. You lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them." Satchel Paige said those words. I seem to be relying on my standby quotes lately in life. It just seems that I've hit a patch that the simplicity of a quote sums up what I'm living and thinking.
The baseball team is doing a whole lot of losing right now. Some in the normal way when you don't catch, throw or hit at the right time. Some in "creative" ways. Friday we played a team that we lost to by one run earlier in the year when we could have won. This game they sat five of their starters for discipline, our best pitcher gets hit by the ball on his throwing hand while batting and is out of the game. We lose 6-1. It's not even close. We are now a bunch of individuals, not a team. Time to really go to work.
"Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, by a great measure, the laws depend." Edmund Burke Say what you want about the Reset Generation having the attention span of a gnat, but their manners are unfathomable at times. The fact that I am talking to a student means nothing to some students who step between us and start asking me their question. Walking out of the classroom to wave and yell at a passing student is acceptable. I don't know what teaching will look like in the future; I know that the new Common Core curriculum isn't going to help; and I am thankful I won't be around to deal with the problems our leaders have given us.
"If you come to a fork in the road, pick it up." Yogi Berra I have many forks in front of me in the near future. I hope to have the wisdom to pick up some and turn the correct direction with the others.
2 comments:
I too am worried...I cannot believe the children I see every day will grow to be productive adults. I see mostly rude, over indulged spoiled brats...God help us.
My greatest fear is that some children won't be able to function in society. When something difficult comes along, they default to talking, complaining, and whining. Instead of trying to work through a problem, they quit. A colleague that taught drafting once observed that you could really tell the difference in an A student and a C student. Not in the quality of their work, but in how they handle a problem.
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