Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Gee(SA), I'm touched.

I assigned the AP students a project on Civil Rights so that they could teach each other about the long running civil rights movement in this country. I let them pick out of a list which included Gay Rights, African American Rights 1800-1900, African American Rights 1900-present, a number of key decades from the 20th century, Women's rights 1800-1950 and then 1950-present, minority voting rights. There was a lot of overlap, but I was thinking that the overlap would help drill important facts into their little heads.

I was thinking brief presentations, i.e., no more than 10 minutes, so that everyone could present.

One of the groups created a 30 minute presentation on Gay Rights. They interviewed 2 students and 2 teachers and compiled this whole True Life deal with questions touching on coming out and what not.

Malheureusement, it was about 9% relevant to the actual assignment, so I had to cut it off.

I applauded their juevos/cohones, but yeesh, talk about putting me in an awkward spot.

Bien sur, it's always easier to apologize than ask permission, so I guess I'm lucky that the only student whose parents could conceivably bring charges of corruption against me stormed out of the class mid-vid.

Then again. Why am I even worried about being charged with "corrupting" kids with "gay" facts at all? I told them I would publish it on teachertube but I "got busy."

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Cable club

I've always been kind of proud of the fact that we still don't have cable at my house. Neither do we have real internet, it's straight dial-up, which I suppose wards off identity theives because even I don't have the patience to wait for my personal information to download.

I've been housesitting, and lucky me on my spring break, I have HBO access.

Here's the embarrassing part, I caught myself trying to start an HBO conversation. The watercooler and everything, all about how awesome the Small Screen John Adams Biopic is...