If I get sick because of this.....grrr

[charisstoma]

Ok, I totally admire that you are the one who is staying at home with the sick kid, Mr.P. I totally understand that someone has to take care of the sick little person who can't be more than 3 ft. tall and if you are going to stay home with said child you can't leave the kid alone in the car with outside temps. in the 50s overlooking the fact you can't leave the kid alone in the car at all. But to bring the kid into the school library coughing and fevered to get a movie for the sub to show to your classes.... Prior planning. You're suppose to have lesson plans made up in advance just for such an eventuality.

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[dragonsquill.livejournal.com]

That's even worse than the kids who lean five millimeters from your face to whimper, "I don't feeeel goood," cause it's an ADULT!

Wee, fun. The school environment. 0_~

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Teachers have it rough. I've heard it said that you have to give 5 weeks warning notice prior to your death.
I will say this, the teacher did come in before the middle school classes were in session, so his child would just be infecting me and any high school students who might be already down wasting time/searching for a book on their reading level (international kids being acclimated to U.S. culture and English language introduction).
It amazes me sometimes how unaware some of the teachers are that a kid comes down each day, takes 20 minutes to find a book on a RL 0.5 to 1.9 level and repeats until they've run out of books on that level and then if they can swing it start over. Many times the kid comes in 10 minutes later to get a new book because they've read/looked at the pictures of that one and failed to pass the Accelerated Reader test for it, so of course they have to escape class to find another one. It's frustrating on occasion. Then there are the times that shine when kids are recommending books to each other in English sentences(plural)as they don't speak the native languages of the others. *squee moment*

Hmm...

[dragonsquill.livejournal.com]

In our school students can't take tests on a book twice (I'm assuming generally not in yours, since you said "When they swing it") and can't go to the library two days in a row. But then, I have a classroom library of over 200 books (yay for the huge library booksale in the next county!). They also can't check out a book without a teacher-made bookmark with their reading level on it...

But yet again, I don't teach in a school with English language learners. Our state has loads and loads of Spanish-speaking students, but our district, one of the smallest and poorest counties in the US, has only a handful. Our kids are below level because they're under the poverty line and their parents don't work with them at home (most either have a parent working at a prison or IN a prison)...so it's certainly different. Most are at least at the level that short novels are available to them.

There's a lot of easy-to-read graphic novels coming out, like adaptations of the Hardy Boys. My special education students, who ARE as low as second grade, really like those. They're easier to read but feel more like a "real" book than the picture books, so they don't feel childish in middle school.

Oops. Rambled. Sorry! /End Ramble Here