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Today I had the kids read a news article about a couple in England who had a baby 5 years ago and only just recently revealed his gender to everyone. They were basically protesting gender roles and how people treat boys and girls differently.

I make the kids read news articles every day and I like to get the most controversial ones possible. This particular one brought up this conversation:

Daysheia: Oh these have GOT to be some white people. White people is crazy.

Me: I know. I hate white people.

Daysheia: My bad Ms. Vinson, but you ain't white. You black.

Me: So, I'm not crazy then?

Daysheia: ...Well. I guess you must be white then cause you DEFINITELY crazy.

Miss Vinson it's too cold for them open-toed shoes. You gon' get Unomia.

We Had Visitors

The day after Alabama won the National Championship, the Maryland State Department of Education came to our school to observe.

They observed me in my classroom wearing an Alabama flag as a cape and making students say roll tide before I would give them a donut.

TEACHER OF THE YEAR/DECADE/CENTURY

And The Temperature Saga Continues

Apparently a 10 year old runs our thermostat at school.

Over Winter Break, they completely turned the heat off to "save money." Welllll, it got down to like 15 degrees a few nights so the school was freezing inside. So, we come back on January 3rd to no heat because surprise, surprise it takes more than an hour or two to heat a 3 story building.

Tuesday and Wednesday you could see your breath when you were teaching in classrooms. Friday the heat finally gets to us. We spend an hour outside friday because the fire alarms went off. Why, you ask? Because it was ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SIX DEGREES in the auditorium. It is now Wednesday and classrooms are still reaching up to 90 something degrees.

I'm sure they money they "saved" by turning off the heat was way more than they spent heating an entire auditorium so hot it set off fire alarms.