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It has been a while since my last post but I feel like this one was too good to let pass by. Anyway, I have a T-shirt which says, “5 out of 4 people have a problem with fractions”.  I wear this relatively frequently and thus far I’ve only gotten the people that will look at it and just laugh or comment on it being quite clever or something…. where the basic jist is that they understand what it is saying.

Tonight, I went to the grocery and was waiting to pay for my groceries when the woman behind the register asked me what was up with my shirt.  She said it in a very odd way, almost as if she knew she was supposed to know it, but wanted clarification. So, I told her that “well, you can’t have 5 out of 4 people…” *blank stare*

I went further to say, “well, think of it this way, suppose your four people *pointing to her and 3 others* are trying to work on a problem, well, I can’t take five of you all out because there aren’t 5…” Continue reading…

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Ok, so I am unemployed and do not live in a real room (with a door that is).  Though, I finally got off my lazy ass and did something about one of those.  I got a listing of all the new schools in NYC and the charter schools and spend basically all day today just reading up on the various philosophies of the schools and emailing them.

I got through the Manhattan schools today, which most of them were in Harlem, which is great considering I want to live in that area.  But what’s even better is that I have an interview on Monday with a school and I also get to do a demo lesson.  This is a middle school, so I will teach either 6th, 7th or 8th grade (if I get the 6th grade job, I’ll have to pay like $150 or so to get my certification extended from 7-12 to 6-12…. which shows everyone how much training they want teachers to have to an additional grade, hahahaha….).  I have been trying to think of something fun to teach and work on, though I can’t think of anything.  If anyone remembers a topic they found particularly interesting in middle school, please let me know!

The apartment search will begin soon, maybe around the first week in July.

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So, yesterday during my second to last day of student teaching, I receive a call from a friend in my program (she’s also a math person), freaking out about getting a job.  I stop her and ask what’s going on.  She proceeds to tell me that today she was doing a demo lesson (basically it’s for doing interviews at school, in front of a class) and after, the principal told her, “Well, we were planning on giving you the job, but literally during your lesson, the chancellor declared a hiring freeze.  So, we can’t hire anyone right now.”

So, I’m listening to this and thinking, oh, that’s just Cheryl being Cheryl.  I get home and look it up. Can’t find anything.  I later get a call from another friend of mine.  He’s now freaking out also. Continue reading…

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Today, I went to a high school in the bronx to do a lesson for a job interview.  I got up there and did the lesson and it went really well.  After talking to my teacher for a while about how it did, I got a tour of the school.  I was about to leave when I went to speak to the principal to thank him for having me again. He asked me what I thought of the school, which I told him.  He then asked what I thought about it.  I was a little confused at first because I thought I just answered that question. But I realized what was going on and said, “well, let’s put it this way, if you offered me a job right now, I’d take it in a heartbeat.” He responded with, “Then let’s go get the paperwork *my jaw dropped* we don’t mess around here.”

In summation, I am now (or rather will be once my paperwork goes through) an employee of the Holcombe L Rucker School of Community Research.  This is a great day!!!

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