My students in the class were mesmerized by the Obama inauguration. I am always amused at the hearing reporters drone on about nothing and when there is something they let the vents develop without interpretation.
At the first high school the coverage was coming through Fox news. At the other school we were watching the parade part through ABC. ABC was letting the parade progress while Fox news was listening for a peace message to the right leaning part of the United States. They were more than satisfied when they heard references to the private sector as the engine behind the greatness of the country. They were also pleased to hear the references to the military. It might be just different parts of the process but the approach looked different.
One of my students in my afternoon classes was sure that females were not strong enough to be in the military. What is more interesting is that my co teacher in the afternoon was a former marine officer. He was pretty surprised to hear this. He was further surprised to find out that she was in the 98th percintile in strength among all of her class in bootcamp.
It took some interesting support for him to undertand that there could be women in the military. He also had to come to grips with the thought that they might be stronger and could fight to support the men who are not as strong as some women.
Recently I have been testing the most needy of the speech students. Needy in the since that their I.E.P. triannials are coming up soon. There is a whole different rhythm in testing than in teaching.
Classes at one school are pretty much ready for the change. The classes at the other school are still in flux as there has to be para support to move students from one class to another and to get them ready at the right time for leaving school.
I am confident that that will be worked out soon.
: ) Pat
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