I don't know, the song was just running through my head...

So, I got a new job today. About half an hour after school let out today, they asked me if I wanted to teach math in the after school program. I said I could work it out. Then ten seconds later, she goes, "So, do you have a lesson?" "Uhhh, yeah, actually I carry math lessons in my back pocket!" Some people never cease to amaze me!

So anyway, I got this job, from 5:30-8:30 MWTH. That's a long time! I thought it would be fun, and, don't get me wrong, it was. However, these kids go to school for seven hours a day, where we try to get them to sit still and quietly and do work that most of them can't handle to begin with (for so many reasons, including that most of them weren't going to school for years until we forced it on them once they came to jail). Then, they go back to their dorms for a couple hours, eat, and come back to school. I don't even make my students sit all class period or be quiet during the regular school day. After two and a half hours in the after-school thing, the kids started to get a little rowdy. I admit that they were somewhat loud, and I probably should have just shut the door, but I had no problem with it. I don't see why any person, especially a teenager, should have to be still and quiet for 10+ hours a day, much less be at school. Of course, when they started to get a little loud (and yes, I had lost them by this point, but I wasn't exactly all there, either!), security comes in and starts "getting big chested" with the students and coming down on them. I really hate that, b/c unless I ask for help, I don't want help in my classroom. Those JCO's (Junior Corrections Officers) didn't know...I could have been having a lesson on noise and its affects, or something. Very frustrating!

Needless to say, albeit I am very tired, I am glad they hired me. I had a lot of fun, and it was fun to just get to do what I want to do with some new people, without the boss saying anything. I am such a nerd....I love to teach! I know that I won't save anyone, and I probably won't even be remembered by most. I just know that there are a couple of students out there that may learn one thing from me, and b/c of that, their lives will be better. Isn't that a great feeling? I wish everyone would set out more often to improve the lives of other people. Imagine how the world would be then...