"Because humans, at our best, can enrich each other in ways we may not anticipate. And it’s lovely when we can allow that to happen, even if we’re stretching the boundaries of what’s supposedly acceptable."
Here are my favorite animals showing up to school.
-On one of my first days teaching at Lolo, I show up in my pretty dress only to help a guy who's pigs escaped from his pick up truck on Highway 93. Yes, I heard pigs in a dress and heels
-It was the start of high stakes testing and we had just got a lecture about keeping everything standardize, no varying from the script, when in walks a black lab to give everyone kisses.
-At Washington, there was a cat name Herbert who lived near by. He would run across the street, oblivious to cars, to get pets from the kids. He also wanted in the school and often was.
- My class pet, a corn snake, escaped one day, only to show up at an IEP meeting.
-Lots of bats hung out on the school siding.
-Woodpeckers would climb around the trees outside my classroom windows.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane! I remember the day that the horse got loose....I was teaching kinders and the horse ran by my window. Luckily, they were all sitting on the floor and too short to see what had just happened. I thought to myself, "What the hell?!" and just kept on teaching. The little dog in the picture was a menace! The band kids called him "wee-nah" because he looked like he was part weiner dog. And another memory...the first time I took my wife (then my girlfriend) to a homecoming game to play with the pep band a dog ran out on the field and interrupted the game. She thought it was hilarious that everyone knew whose dog it was. The announcer said, "Joe....grab you dog....it's running on the field."
"Because humans, at our best, can enrich each other in ways we may not anticipate. And it’s lovely when we can allow that to happen, even if we’re stretching the boundaries of what’s supposedly acceptable."
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Here are my favorite animals showing up to school.
-On one of my first days teaching at Lolo, I show up in my pretty dress only to help a guy who's pigs escaped from his pick up truck on Highway 93. Yes, I heard pigs in a dress and heels
-It was the start of high stakes testing and we had just got a lecture about keeping everything standardize, no varying from the script, when in walks a black lab to give everyone kisses.
-At Washington, there was a cat name Herbert who lived near by. He would run across the street, oblivious to cars, to get pets from the kids. He also wanted in the school and often was.
- My class pet, a corn snake, escaped one day, only to show up at an IEP meeting.
-Lots of bats hung out on the school siding.
-Woodpeckers would climb around the trees outside my classroom windows.
All of these are great but the snake showing up to the IEP meeting is my favorite.
Me, too! My principal was not happy about it.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane! I remember the day that the horse got loose....I was teaching kinders and the horse ran by my window. Luckily, they were all sitting on the floor and too short to see what had just happened. I thought to myself, "What the hell?!" and just kept on teaching. The little dog in the picture was a menace! The band kids called him "wee-nah" because he looked like he was part weiner dog. And another memory...the first time I took my wife (then my girlfriend) to a homecoming game to play with the pep band a dog ran out on the field and interrupted the game. She thought it was hilarious that everyone knew whose dog it was. The announcer said, "Joe....grab you dog....it's running on the field."
I love these reflections so much!! Especially the Kinders on the floor, oblivious. Those Kinders are probably almost in high school now, by the way.
Nothing that cool ever happened at my school (Ronan)…