Ms. Ebisu Warm-up
Jun. 12th, 2008 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
parasitegirlWow, today's teacher was a doooooozy!
I only had an hour at work to write about her and that spread to 4 pages. Tomorrow I have no classes, so look forward to one of my long teaching posts.
But, to set it up: Phonics Zealots with a Phonics Agenda that ignores our teaching goals can go fu-fu-fiiiii-fist themselves.
Bonus: At a second school a principal asked me what I thought of Japanese children...and I had one of those moments of honesty.
"They're children, like any other children....except...except for the whole 'kancho' enema thing. So. Japanese children are like any other children except they spend a lot of energy doing...this" (and I once more did the Japanese hand signal for shoving your gun fingers up an unsuspecting behind.)
I only had an hour at work to write about her and that spread to 4 pages. Tomorrow I have no classes, so look forward to one of my long teaching posts.
But, to set it up: Phonics Zealots with a Phonics Agenda that ignores our teaching goals can go fu-fu-fiiiii-fist themselves.
Bonus: At a second school a principal asked me what I thought of Japanese children...and I had one of those moments of honesty.
"They're children, like any other children....except...except for the whole 'kancho' enema thing. So. Japanese children are like any other children except they spend a lot of energy doing...this" (and I once more did the Japanese hand signal for shoving your gun fingers up an unsuspecting behind.)
