I'm probably the only person LOVING this transit strike

[Dollypop]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 5:40pm

I'm getting to sleep an hour later. The parkway I travel to Queens is virtually free of traffic. My work day is shorter. My classes are small and only the better students are showing up. My Juniors are absolutely engrossed in reading OUR TOWN and even getting out of their seats to act out the scenes as they read them. For the first time in ages I'm enjoying my job!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 5:41pm

And it only took millions of people being inconvenienced for that to happen!

[Dollypop]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 5:43pm

Absolutely true. Still, I'm enjoying the situation while it exists.

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 5:45pm

You are doing the "reading" of OUR TOWN?
I loved that, it was one of my first tastes of acting (my parents didn't allow that type of "behavior")
I always "acted out" my scenes when we read in class.
Reading those plays, were some of my only good memories of the first three years of High School.

It sounds as though the whole strike was worth it after all!

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 5:46pm

If I ever had a teacher like DP I'd shoot myself in the foot.

[Marlene]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 5:47pm

Do you teach at a really ghetto HS school in Queens?

Unfortunately in my neck of the woods people are so concerned about school that for the most part atleast 70% of the class was there. *headbang* And despite the retarded scheduling of 27 minute periods, teachers still managed to give tests and can you imagine--teach!

Owwww...I want to sit in and act out Our Town, and chuck Huck Finn into the garbage!
Updated On: 12/21/05 at 05:47 PM

[Luscious]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 5:51pm

No. You're not alone, DP. I'm L-O-V-I-N-G every minute of it!

Updated On: 12/21/05 at 05:51 PM

[shira467]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 6:00pm

I'm HATING this transit strike because I need to get to my wherever I am living right now room for clothing.

I am LOVING this because it gives me a FANTASTIC excuse to sit here and be with my girl.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 7:02pm

Yes, plays are meant to be performed and when we read plays in my classes, we assign roles and read them aloud. After almost a full semester, many of my students are comfortable enough to read with a certain amount of feeling and with the smaller classes right now, they easily get up and walk about a bit while they read their roles. I'm reading the Stage Manager and using a New England accent while I do so. The kids are thrilled with this and Mrs. Soames and Mrs Gibbs are attempting to do the same. Of course, the current situation has only 6-8 students in some classes, so many students are playing multiple roles. It's amazing how a new character is introduced and a student just steps in and reads the lines without being asked. Oh yes, some of the boys are having a blast providing the sound effects! I've heard some terrific horse sounds and chicken cackles!

Please remember that under normal circumstances these kids are my ghetto rats!

[insomniak]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 7:06pm

DP, I'm really happy for you and those kids. My honors english class talked through the taping of Our Town that we watched and I was the only one who liked it.

[The Grovers Corners Yenta2]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 7:51pm

I am so happy that you are enjoying being with your students. '
you see, you are getting the joy that every teacher deserves. I hope that the scene where Emily and George get married is a nice one and " a perfectly lovely wedding! I just love a good wedding."

[DramaDork925]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 7:59pm

Dollypop... is it weird that I would love to be in your English class?

[Dollypop]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 11:24pm

Oh I don't know if you'd want to be in my class. Things get pretty intense when I do STREETCAR. I'm a pretty damned good Stanley Kowalski and the kids get jolted when I start throwing things around the classroom when he "clears the table". I also wear a T-shirt which gets ripped at the appropriate moment. This past October the girl who was reading Blanche was afraid that I would pick her up and slam her on my desk during the rape scene. Her comment: "Hey Mistuh, you really get into it!"

[EadieWasALady]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 11:56pm

I continue to meet several very sexy heterosexual men as a result of this transit strike.

[Marquise]

Posted: 12/21/05 at 11:56pm

"Please remember that under normal circumstances these kids are my ghetto rats!

As someone who grew up in the inner city I take great offense in you calling these kids "ghetto rats".

[Dollypop]

Posted: 12/22/05 at 7:41pm

Damn! The strike is settled (even though the contract isn't!). We were told this morning that if the strike continued the Dept. of Education was going to close school tomorrow--adding an extra day to our vacations. Drat.

Marquise, I'm sorry that you were ofended by my reference to "ghetto rats". However, if the shoe fits, wear it.