Week 10

There have been many issues that have come up during this week. SO before I start rambling off about the negative I will start with somethings positive.
My last class of the day has become one of my most enjoyable. I don't know what I did or what they did to become interested in learning but now the majority are :)
My action research class is begging me to start filmming again. I told them we only had 2 more films left and they were very distressed over it. So I am going to assume the most of them really like making the films. I am giving them more demands on this film so that there can be more structure to allow historical facts rather than a comedy short.
Now onto the interesting moments throughout the week. I had to have my first student/teacher/principal meeting during my class! when I had a sub....I was sooo nervouse but I tried to stay calm and afterward the principal said that I handled it very very well. Still some of the things the student said about me or tried to imply just threw me for a loop.
After that incident a parent called in saying that I was spreading communist/socialist ideals to their child(my student). NUMBER 1: I teach an early American history class where we haven't even reached the American Revolution...where would I have time to stick in communist/socialist ideals?!?!?! NUMBER 2: When a student tries to bait me into political conversations I listen and reply with a comment that will quickly end the conversation because it is off topic for an early American history class. NUMBER 3: Telling a student before I am to have a poltical discussion about capitalism/communision/socialism/dictatorship that they need to read primary documents/any professional document is not offensive nor a communist/socialist ideal.

FINALLY I don't understand the need to catagorize everyone and everything while in high school or after high school. Trying to catagorize me as a teacher and my ideals into "conservative" or "liberal" is a waste of time considering most of the time I just play devil's advocate. I did not think this whole situation, as a teacher would be such an ordeal.

I did get to go make sure kids weren't doing anything crazy at the homecoming dance which was fun... But made me feel very old...

I look forward to the last 5 weeks to scramble to get all my Action Research gathered and stress out :)