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Facades Are Fake.

August 17, 2010 – 9:46 pm

Mamacita says:  All this talk about how it’s the teacher’s fault whenever a student does badly at school. . . . I can’t help but think that these people must blame the photographer if their kid is homely.  Isn’t it – sometimes – the same thing?

Photoshop faces or abilities or personalities all you want: if [...]

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Euphemisms Cloud the Issues

August 11, 2010 – 1:55 pm

Mamacita says:  Oh, is it time to be politically correct again? At school? Well, if we must. . . .
Now don’t any of you be offended. I mean, “euphorically-challenged.”
No one fails a class any more; he’s merely “passing impaired.”
You don’t have detention; you’re just one of the “exit delayed.”
Your classroom isn’t too crowded; it’s just [...]

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Too Bad, So Sad. . . .

July 21, 2010 – 12:00 am

Mamacita says:  So many people have emailed me (doesn’t anybody comment any more?)  about the following lines from a previous post that I decided to feature them by themselves.  Yes, my readers are the boss of me.
There is such potential in every classroom, such stories to be told, such wondrous talent and creativity and [...]

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Freeeeeeedommmmmm. . . . .

July 13, 2010 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says:  I posted this in 2006, but I’ve been thinking about this same thing all day so here it is again.
My blog, my rules.  What up, dawggggg?
I admit it: too much Scrubs.
Here’s the post:
Is anyone else out there lucky enough to have a job that makes you so happy that all you have to [...]

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Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

July 7, 2010 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says:  Regarding any educator at any level, in any capacity, and in any kind of economic region, who is not making an effort to be extremely computer-savvy. . . . shame on you.
I know first-hand what kind of travesties can occur when an administrator doesn’t know anything about a computer, and I think it’s [...]

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Is Your Child A Civilized, Sentient Person?

June 17, 2010 – 11:43 am

Mamacita says:  Don’t get me wrong. I believe in testing: to a point.
I do not believe that a student who can’t pass a simple test of basic skills should be graduated from high school. I do not believe that a student who can’t pass a simple test of basic skills should be promoted at all, [...]

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Mamacita (The Real One) Rants About Wiggly Kids and Recess and Stuff

May 29, 2010 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says:  Some of this was first posted on June 30, 2007, but my opinion hasn’t changed since then, and I’ve added a few more opinionated Mamacita-isms. Are you surprised? I didn’t think you would be.
“No two people are alike, and both of them are damn glad of it.”
That’s a quotation; that’s not [...]

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Because.

May 23, 2010 – 10:39 pm

Rerun. November, 2004. Before some of you were born, yes?
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Mamacita says:  Remember that anecdote about the young bride whose husband asked her why she cut the beef roast* in half before she put it in the pan?
She told him she did it that way, because her mother always did [...]

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Facts Are The Enemy of Truth

May 22, 2010 – 6:12 pm

Repost from May 19, 2006.  Because it was on my mind.  It’s always on my mind.
This is the irrational season
When love blooms bright and wild,
Had Mary been filled with reason,
There’d have been no room for the child.
–by Madeleine L’Engle
Madeleine has been one of my idols for many years.  I quote her frequently in this post.  [...]

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Professors Are Mean. Here’s Why.

May 3, 2010 – 11:02 am

Mamacita says: Today is the first day of the rest of your life the last week of the semester – every student’s favorite week, naturally.
I predict that several students will come to class NEXT week, and be all astounded and sputtery that the semester is over and they can’t take the final. [...]

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