3rd Annual Halloween Party Hosted by the Petty Patrol

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You are listening to the Balancing Act Podcast. Here's your hosts,

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Jamie Wonko and Joe Vitale.

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And guess what? We are officially recording.

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Yes. And welcome to the Balancing Act Podcast, everybody. I'm your host, Jedi Joe Vitale.

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And I'm here with my co-host, the adorable one of

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the 101 dalmatians i'm a pink puppy you're

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a pink puppy where i'm a

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little tom haverford my name is jamie but also i'm

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a pink puppy and i'm channeling my inner tom haverford from parks and recreation

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very nice i am channeling my i want to be a jedi and have a real lightsaber

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when i grow up uh welcome to our third annual uh halloween episode as you hear the hum as you

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the hum of my lightsaber and no, that is not a double enchantment.

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So welcome to today's show and today's season.

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And by the way, season three brought to you by teacher's insurance plan.

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who are we we're professionals here all right let's take the hood down the jedi

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robe is in full effect shout out to shout out to mr bernstein who of course

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had a jedi robe for me to be able to borrow and use for our recording for our

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special halloween episode so what's going on What's going on, buddy? How are we doing?

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We are doing as well as we possibly can.

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You know, I'm just a pink puppy. I keep, I've been doing a lot of like Petty Patrol lately.

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P is for Penny Pingleton, who is permanently punished. P is for me being on the Petty Patrol.

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And I do think like all teachers have a certain level of pettiness.

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I've been leaning into my mom life pettiness. My my ability to be petty as a mother.

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And also, you know, I just went with my pee as a pink puppy for our Halloween show. All things pay.

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All things pay. I love it. So what is our what is our what why are we so melancholy as a parent?

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What were you saying there? You're you're in your your my goodness. Now I forgot the word.

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What am i what am i feeling what are you why are you petty why are you petty

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right now why am i petty yeah petty petty as a season uh i'm in my petty era

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maybe i am trying really hard to,

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i think you know i was living in a little bit of like a romantic,

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situation.

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I love, love, love my school. I love, love, love my students.

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And this year has come around the way to smack me on the nose with a newspaper. Woof, woof.

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I am the driver of the struggle bus party of me.

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And I am having a very difficult time finding that level of affection.

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And every day I start the new day with, it's going to be better today.

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It's going to be better. Yes. Woof.

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Yeah. So there is definitely some of that. I'm feeling the same thing.

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I mean, a lot of it is like, I think we, I think you'll relate to this, James.

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It's like when, when the new school year starts and especially when you had

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a good year and you had good kids the previous year and you enjoyed their company

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and you enjoyed your time with them.

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And the year before. And the year before you are comparing your current students

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to those previous students.

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You absolutely like everybody does that. Right. We're all like,

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oh, but they're not as they're not as jovial or as joking or as funny or as

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as, you know, all together as the as the ones that I had the previous year.

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Right. So there's there always is a little bit of that as you start the school

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year. And granted, we're at the end of October.

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Right. So it's two months. But now you're kind of getting in the thick of it.

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And yeah, I could see that. I mean, I'm, I'm having some of the same,

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some of the same issues where it's like, uh, academically, I just feel that

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maybe they're a little bit lower than students I've had in the past.

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Um, and I'm, I'm spending a lot of time dealing with incredibly juvenile behaviors.

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Um, incredibly juvenile, incredibly juvenile behaviors.

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Yeah. Like stuff that like I'm addressing kids on a mode.

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Like I even said, uh, to my class the other day, I said like,

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Hey, do you, do you realize? I said, I just want you to realize that in this

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class, I'm addressing more juvenile behavior than I address in every class combined.

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Just with the, you know, the nonsense and the, you know, just the ridiculousness

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of trying to get through a lesson.

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And they're constantly behind. And then that affects them, unfortunately,

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as we go through certain assignments.

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And, like, every once in a while, you have to play catch-up.

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It's like, hey, I had a catch-up day.

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And now the rest of it, you're on your own. And I'm not getting things back

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from them academically either that are up to par with what I'm looking for. Or at all.

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Or at all. Or at all is our, you know, although I will say this,

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you never want to be the person or the teacher that's like the only one who is experiencing.

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So I do have, I do take a lot of comfort in my colleagues.

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And, you know, because there is a point where you have to analyze, like, is it me?

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You know, is it self-reflect? Like, is it me? and

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when I go and spend some

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time as like as we have recommended before you know

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we've said to our new teachers like you know you don't have to

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go to the faculty room every single day but it is good to pop in now

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and again listen sort of take the pulse of you know the community what's going

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on and I can for sure and 100% say with confidence it is not me and it is not

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my age you know because every once in a while you know you kind of like oh I

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don't like the noises and I know Like certain things maybe are,

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you know, just sort of my methodology and they don't always fit in.

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But no, it's everyone. It's all, right?

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So that definitely makes me feel...

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Better for sure that I'm, it's not me out on a limb all by myself.

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Yeah. It's like, you feel better, but it's still not good. Like I get it.

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No, but at least you're not lonely.

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You know, at least you're not like, you know, on an Island unto yourself where

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no one else is having some, and to be quite frank, there are several of my colleagues

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that are experiencing more, way more difficulty than I.

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So are we just talking about, are we just talking about behavior?

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Are we talking about behavior? we're talking about really like a complete and

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total lack of motivation.

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Usually like even like a simple art project, the things that we do for multicultural

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events and things like that, most of them like really sparks joy.

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And, you know, we can kind of sit and they enjoy. We're having very little of that.

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There's also a constant need for redirection.

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There is a um an

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overwhelming sense of or

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you know like pete and repeat and pete and repeat and pete and pete pete's brother

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pete and his nephew pete and then his uncle pete and it's like why are you asking

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me that i wrote it on the board yes and i went over it and then i pointed to it,

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and then I modeled sentence starters,

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and then you still sat and said, I,

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What are we doing? Yeah. Like, am I punked? Where's Ashton Kutcher?

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Yeah, that's what I say all the time. Or as my mom would have said, Ashton Kutcher.

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Ashton Kutcher.

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Where are you, Ashton? Because I'm being punked. I've said that before.

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Sometimes I do my favorite thing that you do, because you do it so well when

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you just start looking around. And like, what's happening?

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I do that, too, in class. And I'm like, where's the cameras?

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I was like, are you guys trying? I was like, are we having a competition as to, this is what I say.

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I literally say this. Are we having a competition as to which class can put

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me in a rubber room in a straight jacket muttering to myself?

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Because all I've done is repeated directions over and over and over.

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We recently had, go ahead. Sorry. So this time of year in our community where

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we live, we have a huge Asian population.

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And so we have quite a number of students who celebrate Diwali and members of our community.

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And so we have lots and lots of fireworks. And, you know, I know for my precious

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baby angel dog who, you know, has a sensitivity to the fireworks,

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but obviously, obviously living here, right.

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And living in this community, teaching here, you, you have, you and I,

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we have a sense of what's celebrated, what's important.

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Right. So I, you know, I said to my students the other day, we're going to do

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a little something to celebrate Diwali.

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I was like, usually there's like a lot of excitement that goes into that and

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wow, and we're excited and we're going to share and we're going to talk about it.

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That has been my experience, right? So this was very different and shocking to me.

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And, um, and I, so it took so long. I got to the point where I said, um.

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Please, I can't, I can't help.

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I can't allow you to be like the people of the ring community.

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So we have a, you know, we have a ring camera.

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The people of the ring community are like, it's not 4th of July.

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What's happening out there? It's like you, you live here. What do you mean what's

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happening? Right? So it's like, how do you not know?

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How did I not know that? A classic Jamie story. How did I not know that?

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And it's, what do you mean? And so I was saying to them, like,

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please, the world is filled with so many well-meaning idiots.

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I don't mean that you have, it's

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that someone is, you know, really being malicious about it, but also no.

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Okay. No. So, you know, that's where I am right now. So I'm just going to dog up.

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I'm going to just put on my dog ears and my Dalmatian nose.

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And I'm going to, I'm going to say this one's for the dogs.

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Yeah. um this i also

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what what i struggle with for you is

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that i know a lot of the activities that you do you enjoy them

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right and you also enjoy the experience with your students of doing that activity

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right and i feel the same way there's things that i do and it's like not everything

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there's there's this new like stream of videos that i've been watching of like

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how teachers are holding kids' attention, and they're like,

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you know, first you have to add two plus two, jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle.

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And they take their keys out, and they're like shaking them in front of people

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to like get them to pay attention.

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Right oh like a baby at a photo shoot like a baby at

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a photo shoot or like or like when i have a treat hanging i

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realize how this sounds when i have a treat hanging over the camera to

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like get my dog's attention yeah not equating students to

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pets but i'm just saying like right why is everything in need of being a dog

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and pony show um it's not it's not it's not and i and i don't make it that way

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like and right now we're doing you know a dbq um we're working on things in

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class that are a little more labor-intensive. I model all those activities.

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B, B, Q, document-based question. Those are tough. Those are tough.

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Yeah, they're fascinating and interesting, but yeah.

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I also do it in a way where we're doing these activities together.

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We're looking at the sample writing. We analyze the essays. They don't actually do the writing.

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I have them actually form an argument. I'm going to have them do this very soon

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in class as we're going through the activities. It takes like days.

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But I'm going to do this activity with them where they're going to like choose something.

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Like for example as i'm dressed in star wars attire

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uh which one of the star wars movies is the most important

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to the story right they have to choose like they're all important

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to the story but that she's the one that's most important as she

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snores um i'm just

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taking a quick nap okay quick nap or like

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which dorito flavor is the best or uh why

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are the new york yankees the best baseball team like you lost

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me again yes you have to make an argument why which

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harry potter book is the most important to the story okay any

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of those things so all of them are important but they have to

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choose the one that has the most importance the one that

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puts it over the top that little extra something and i'm really this is the

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first time i'm doing this this way because i really want them to form their

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own argument and then i'm going to give them they're going to work with a partner

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had like 60 seconds to like convince the class of like here's why this is the

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most important thing no debate you're just giving your opinion but it has to

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be based in some kind of fact,

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and then talk about why you feel that way. What is your personal connection to it?

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And I'm really hoping it doesn't fall flat. And they actually do it in a way

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where they're like more engaged with the material.

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But it's like everything that we do, it's just... I hope that it works out for you. Yeah.

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I mean, I want it to because I like doing these activities because we're eventually

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going to talk about which ideal from the Declaration of Independence is most

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important, right? So we're going to do the same thing.

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They're all important. But what's the one that has that little extra something?

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How do I get them to... And here's the word. How do I get them to understand

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the rigor of what we are about to do and go through the material in an effective way?

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To be able to get that point across. Like, that's what I'm trying to do with

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them, but they're just not willing to go forth and put forth the extra struggle.

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That's the first thing that I'm noticing.

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The second thing I'm noticing, and what you alluded to, is like,

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oh my God, they're repeating directions.

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Like, I want to pass out on this microphone. Like, I just, I can't.

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And I, it's posted in Google Classroom. I model the activities. I give them a sample.

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If I don't have one from a previous year i make it i

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go through the sample i talk to them about why this is an effective

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grade what was the grade on the rubric for that sample

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like if you wanted more than this i give them

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feedback based on i use brisk and i put the rubric in

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and i give them yeah i give them feedback shout out brisk um based on the rubric

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where it's glows grows and whatever the third piece of criteria is like here's

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what you're not hose yeah oh it's not um sorry i couldn't help it Although I

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kind of feeling silly and this is, you know,

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we're going to take this path down another road.

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We're going to take another road down this. Although I kind of wish it was hos

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because like, you know, um, glows, glows and grows are my jam. So go ahead. Yeah.

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Like glows of like, here's what you've done well for this project based on the rubric.

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Here's what you did not hit the mark on. And then the last thing is like,

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here's how to really take it over the top. Right.

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Here's how to really expand on it even more. So I've been giving them that feedback

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and I have kids like didn't do it.

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Then like it gets handed back. I have a very specific policy regarding late

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work, which I, which I've talked about.

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And it's like, oh, they go, oh, this kid completed this in study hall and guidance today.

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Can, can, can you, no, I'm, I like, I'm totally, I'm not doing this. Yeah.

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And I realized how that, that makes me sound. It's a slippery slope. It's a slippery slope.

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But at the same time, I, I just think about the kid that worked their butt off

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to hand it in on time. And now you're going to hand it in late and I'm going

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to give you, whether it be a 50 or a 60, it's just not fair.

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Like, I just don't understand.

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I've talked to kids like you cannot choose to pick and choose when you're going

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to do things. This is not a deficiency.

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This is kids choosing. I just didn't do it.

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So let me ask you something. What is what is what do you think is the pettiest

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thing that you hold on to as a teacher?

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Is there something petty that influences or informs what you do in your classroom?

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You said, I realize how that makes me sound. So do you think that that's petty

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or do you believe in it? And if you're a teacher out there, what is your,

00:17:04.876 --> 00:17:08.156
you know, what is your petty patrol, right?

00:17:08.276 --> 00:17:12.856
I, I was singing to myself the other day and I, you know, took a song and I

00:17:12.856 --> 00:17:15.676
said, are you petty? Yes, I'm petty.

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It's like, what are you petty about? And what are you unwilling to change your

00:17:20.876 --> 00:17:25.316
pettiness to, so to speak? I am un...

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I mean, I don't know. I don't think having a grading policy and sticking to

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that policy and then a late work policy and sticking to that policy.

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I don't think that's petty. No, I don't think so either.

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What's petty for me? I mean, it's bolting out of my classroom like they're on

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their way to like run in the Olympics, possibly endangering other people.

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Not petty. That's a rule. That's a safety issue.

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And, you know, so I wouldn't put those in the petty category.

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I think the one thing that I am petty about, and at this point in my career,

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I'm vocal about is when we are asked to enforce policy and certain teachers

00:18:08.329 --> 00:18:11.709
decide, I'm just not going to do that because A, they don't want the hassle.

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B, they don't want the conflict or confrontation.

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Or C, they want to be the cool one. Makes the rest of us look like asses.

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And I say that to people's faces succinctly and professionally, of course.

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But when I'm enforcing something my boss wants and then I hear,

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well, we don't do that in this so-and-so's class.

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Well, I've said often in regards to cell phones, the boss says they're supposed

00:18:40.229 --> 00:18:42.469
to be in your lockers. They're not supposed to be on your person.

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They're supposed to be away. And if I see it in your pocket,

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I'm either going to confiscate it or you're going to be forced to put it away

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in your locker. Because that's the expectation.

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I've used your line i like a good work environment that's

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what she wants so i'm gonna do it yeah but when it's like wow you know they're

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not really using it it's like you don't understand like they're she's telling

00:19:02.849 --> 00:19:08.589
us do this right she's telling us to do it and that's also what the policy states

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like it shouldn't be out i'm fighting a losing battle when.

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Other teachers are not doing that. And I have said, like, if teachers are,

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like, not addressing it, they're wrong at not doing their jobs. Right.

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When we talk about community, when we talk about, granted, I teach a civics class.

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Like, what are the qualities of a good citizen? That people are,

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you know, following the rules and following the law and, you know,

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being, contributing to society for the greater good. Like, this is one of those greater good things.

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Yeah. Like when kids are walking around wearing blankets and they come walking

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down the hallway and I'm like, Hey, you can't have a blanket.

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Well, so-and-so saw me, didn't say anything. I was like, well, that's not what I said.

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I said, you can't have it because that lady right across the hall,

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my principal, she says you can't have it.

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So if those people, maybe the teacher was honestly busy addressing another student, didn't see it.

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So, so for you, that that's the cell phone. Um, it's the reinforcement of all

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of like the United front.

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We're all on the same page the rules are the same everywhere

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you go with every teacher across the board clear and

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concise message i mean shouldn't it be that way yes and

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i can all i can say something that i i'm already

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pre-petty about for june is last year as a grade level we had said you know

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hey you don't have to come to school on the last day it's usually not something

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you do because our kids graduate the second to last day and if you do show up

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like no one um we're not going to send you around from class to class.

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We are going to, you know, keep you in our own classrooms because,

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you know, that's what we're going to do. And.

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A bunch of kids came to school, which full free and right to do,

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yes, and the teachers who had been telling them for months and months that they

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were going to hold them to staying in their own classrooms were sending them

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all over the place. Yeah.

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And I absolutely 100% would not.

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I cannot tell you this is how it's going to be, this is how it's going to be,

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this is how it's going to be, and then not do it.

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And I absolutely have this, I don't know what that name of the trait is,

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but it is, I guess, a terrible part of my personality.

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But, you know, it's just, well, thank you. I mean, which is clearly why we get

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along. No doubt in your self-talk. It's not allowed.

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But it's really, it's one of those things where it was like,

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and they were like, what do you mean? And I said, but I told you and we told

00:21:38.321 --> 00:21:41.521
you. And then some of the other teachers were like, oh, come on,

00:21:41.601 --> 00:21:43.901
Jamie. Are you going to let them know?

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I'm not because I told them for weeks that this was what we were all collectively doing.

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Why would I go back on? That's my word. I'm sorry, but no, I'm not going to.

00:21:58.101 --> 00:22:03.141
So, I mean, can we like just parlay vu into a little like candy chit chat or what?

00:22:03.381 --> 00:22:06.521
I mean, sure. Well, I have one for you. I think I might know the answer to this.

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I want to ask you, if you had,

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and I will answer this too, because I'm actually struggling with my answer,

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but if you had a teacher haunted house, the things that you turned around the

00:22:22.441 --> 00:22:25.661
corner that would scare you in that teacher haunted house,

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what are some of the things that you think would be in your teacher haunted house?

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Like, for example, I'll start off, I'll give you one.

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One of the things that would be in my teacher haunted house was if I turned a corner,

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And it's, I have a messy desk and there's papers all over the place and I can't

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find like a piece of student's work.

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Like that would be in my teacher haunted house and it would give me anxiety

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and fear and it would be something that would make me very, very afraid.

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Like that's in my teacher haunted house. What's in your teacher haunted house?

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My teacher haunted house. Yes.

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Oh my teacher haunted house would be it's lunchtime okay in a preschool,

00:23:14.854 --> 00:23:22.134
and they're serving sloppy joes oh sloppy joes and you have to open all of the

00:23:22.134 --> 00:23:29.794
sporks oh and help the preschoolers put the sloppy joe meat onto the bun got

00:23:29.794 --> 00:23:32.234
it because they're not pre-assembled mold. Oh.

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And then you have to watch them eat them.

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You've got to be kidding me. That's great. I love that. That's something.

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So that'd be in your own personal haunted house that you. Okay.

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I mean, that happened. That happened to me when I was substitute teaching and it's always not.

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And it's always been like, oh, that was the worst thing ever.

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Wow. That's good. Do you have more? Oh, yeah, I have more. So I would say, I would say, like...

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You, you come into class on, on the day when you like, you don't have anything

00:24:07.997 --> 00:24:11.397
like major planned. It's like a catch up day or like a fun day.

00:24:11.557 --> 00:24:14.757
And like the kids are going to do stuff. And like, that's the day you're going to get observed.

00:24:14.797 --> 00:24:18.577
Like the, the principal or vice principal comes in holding the laptop,

00:24:19.177 --> 00:24:20.317
shaking the keys around.

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And that's the day you're going to get the observation. And you're like,

00:24:23.417 --> 00:24:26.297
Oh crap. Now I have to come up with some engaging thing.

00:24:26.737 --> 00:24:32.637
Uh, that's going to have to be done. And yeah, that's that that's that one would

00:24:32.637 --> 00:24:34.157
be that one definitely keeps me up.

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That's horrifying. That is horrifying. I love the spork story.

00:24:42.557 --> 00:24:43.957
I mean, how many sporks did we open?

00:24:44.177 --> 00:24:47.837
I mean, so many sporks. So many sporks. So many sporks.

00:24:48.157 --> 00:24:57.077
Wow. Oh, we, um, I would say, uh, something that would really be frightening

00:24:57.077 --> 00:25:02.057
would have to be teaching.

00:25:02.057 --> 00:25:10.557
Like you, you come in and they say, um, today you're going to have to teach calculus.

00:25:11.137 --> 00:25:12.317
Oh yeah.

00:25:13.297 --> 00:25:19.977
What a nightmare. I mean, that would be horrible. Or any math.

00:25:21.017 --> 00:25:26.177
Or any math. Or what about... Or this year I'm feeling like you only have boy

00:25:26.177 --> 00:25:28.577
students. That would be...

00:25:29.377 --> 00:25:35.637
To me, there's a lot of that boy energy happening.

00:25:37.157 --> 00:25:41.517
Yeah. Thank goodness for our sort of calm...

00:25:43.333 --> 00:25:47.913
Female energy that's being put out. But yeah, I would imagine if they said like,

00:25:48.033 --> 00:25:49.413
you're going to only teach boys.

00:25:49.673 --> 00:25:52.913
You know what's also funny about the... Not always just this year.

00:25:53.373 --> 00:25:57.833
Yeah. But no, it's also funny about this year in particular with the students

00:25:57.833 --> 00:26:01.193
that you have, since I taught some of them last year, is that there is a lot

00:26:01.193 --> 00:26:04.213
of that energy where a lot of times you'll just look around the room and you'll

00:26:04.213 --> 00:26:05.333
see the boys doing stuff.

00:26:05.453 --> 00:26:09.333
And some of the girls, sometimes they're like, and they're giddy and they're laughing.

00:26:09.513 --> 00:26:12.613
But a lot of times, a lot of times they're just

00:26:12.613 --> 00:26:15.373
looking around and they're like these guys are like these guys

00:26:15.373 --> 00:26:18.353
are idiots granted boys are idiots i'm allowed

00:26:18.353 --> 00:26:21.873
to say that because i am one and we laugh at fart jokes and they make stupid

00:26:21.873 --> 00:26:26.553
noises and that's just what it is and i'm 49 years old and i still laugh when

00:26:26.553 --> 00:26:30.313
my teacher's like you got to be on your duty on time and i'm like duty she said

00:26:30.313 --> 00:26:35.233
duty yeah but that's not what i i don't mean that you don't mean that okay don't

00:26:35.233 --> 00:26:37.513
because like i love a good Like I,

00:26:37.693 --> 00:26:40.673
I do, I love like a dumb joke.

00:26:40.773 --> 00:26:43.113
I do tend to like really silly.

00:26:44.153 --> 00:26:48.173
I don't know. It's not, it's more of like, yeah, I don't, it's more of like,

00:26:48.253 --> 00:26:50.213
I kicked you, I'm kicking you.

00:26:50.393 --> 00:26:53.613
And it's like, uh, I don't, there's just something about it. I don't know.

00:26:53.733 --> 00:26:56.253
Maybe I'm just, I had really mature kids the last few years.

00:26:56.353 --> 00:26:58.793
So it's, it's that, that would be a nightmare for me.

00:26:58.953 --> 00:27:01.953
Um, like all males or how about this?

00:27:03.413 --> 00:27:12.733
You have to teach a class where everyone else is fluent in another language

00:27:12.733 --> 00:27:17.953
and you have no tools to help you at all. That would be a bad one.

00:27:18.273 --> 00:27:22.013
And you just know everyone's talking about you. I think another thing that I

00:27:22.013 --> 00:27:28.593
would definitely have an issue with is, let's say I'm in the middle of teaching

00:27:28.593 --> 00:27:31.633
and no matter what I do, It's just you're constantly...

00:27:32.522 --> 00:27:36.342
Hearing the crinkling. This water bottle doesn't do it as much,

00:27:36.462 --> 00:27:39.402
but like the crinkling of the water bottle, like while you're teaching,

00:27:39.622 --> 00:27:42.542
which is all the more reason, if you follow me on social media,

00:27:42.762 --> 00:27:46.702
that I have the water bottle garage, ladies and gentlemen.

00:27:46.842 --> 00:27:50.862
The garage is where all the water bottles get parked and nobody touches their

00:27:50.862 --> 00:27:54.682
water bottle while it's parked. And it's parked for the entire class period.

00:27:54.722 --> 00:27:57.682
And I will let you all know that in the two months that I've been doing this,

00:27:57.802 --> 00:27:58.742
no one has died of thirst.

00:27:59.702 --> 00:28:03.222
There has been no flipping. There has been no putting water on your hand to

00:28:03.222 --> 00:28:05.802
do your hair. There has been none of that stuff.

00:28:06.082 --> 00:28:09.942
So to me, that's a nightmare. Like things like that are triggering.

00:28:11.115 --> 00:28:15.275
I want to use the word petty in this case, my little petty princess,

00:28:15.275 --> 00:28:21.355
because I think other experiences have ruined it for the students that I currently have.

00:28:21.595 --> 00:28:25.255
Because I literally said, like, it's not you, it's them.

00:28:25.635 --> 00:28:31.095
It's what I've experienced. No matter how many times I've politely asked, please don't do that.

00:28:31.495 --> 00:28:36.895
I continually get people that are doing that. And it's impolite.

00:28:37.195 --> 00:28:39.275
It's rude. It's distracting.

00:28:39.955 --> 00:28:43.015
Uh it it literally is like nails on a chalkboard to

00:28:43.015 --> 00:28:46.115
me yeah a lot of times like i you know i i

00:28:46.115 --> 00:28:49.315
do the like hey bud would you

00:28:49.315 --> 00:28:52.335
mind maybe maybe not doing that

00:28:52.335 --> 00:28:55.335
and i think probably like what's getting

00:28:55.335 --> 00:28:58.075
me this year is like normally kids are like really like i'm not

00:28:58.075 --> 00:29:00.815
like stop it don't do that what are you doing you know

00:29:00.815 --> 00:29:03.895
but they hear me sounding like

00:29:03.895 --> 00:29:06.915
that yeah so i'm like hey hey do

00:29:06.915 --> 00:29:10.075
you mind you know i'm gonna really i'm gonna ask you again like please

00:29:10.075 --> 00:29:12.795
try not to and they hear like don't

00:29:12.795 --> 00:29:16.215
do that because when they look at me their

00:29:16.215 --> 00:29:19.755
reaction is as if i had spoken

00:29:19.755 --> 00:29:25.015
to them in that way so it's like the reaction that i'm getting isn't matching

00:29:25.015 --> 00:29:30.375
what i'm saying so i don't know where and i do find that to be more of something

00:29:30.375 --> 00:29:34.995
that's like more typical of like an 11 year old and not a 13 year old where

00:29:34.995 --> 00:29:37.155
they usually kind of get over that a little bit.

00:29:37.355 --> 00:29:41.695
It's, it's strange, but all right. So here is, um, here is a little recap for

00:29:41.695 --> 00:29:44.555
our, um, happy Halloween episode.

00:29:44.955 --> 00:29:47.215
Yes. Your favorite candy.

00:29:48.095 --> 00:29:52.535
Um, I'm still going with almond joy. Okay. Your favorite costume.

00:29:52.775 --> 00:29:57.275
Uh, the, my favorite costume that I ever dressed up as is probably Probably

00:29:57.275 --> 00:30:02.775
my dad once made me an Optimus Prime costume that I wore.

00:30:03.015 --> 00:30:05.375
It was like out of cardboard and he made all sorts of stuff.

00:30:05.455 --> 00:30:07.215
That was really cool. Yes. Yes.

00:30:09.735 --> 00:30:11.855
Your favorite Halloween costume.

00:30:13.095 --> 00:30:18.395
Movie or TV show? So I'm not a scary movie person.

00:30:19.895 --> 00:30:24.855
And I wouldn't say that I really watch Halloween movies the way that I watch

00:30:24.855 --> 00:30:27.755
Christmas movies. So I really couldn't.

00:30:28.475 --> 00:30:33.415
I don't know if I necessarily have one. Okay. Probably like Charlie Brown,

00:30:33.635 --> 00:30:35.395
Halloween, The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

00:30:35.535 --> 00:30:39.415
That's probably the one that's on the list. Like when I was a kid,

00:30:39.515 --> 00:30:41.495
you had to watch it because you couldn't miss it.

00:30:41.755 --> 00:30:44.415
You missed it. You missed it. That was it once a year. Yeah,

00:30:44.475 --> 00:30:46.855
that was it. It was once a year. But now I could watch it whenever I want.

00:30:48.535 --> 00:30:53.055
But yeah, it's probably that. Okay. Yeah. What about you? What about you? Favorite candy?

00:30:53.775 --> 00:30:58.115
Yeah. My favorite candy. Oh, there's just, I really, there's too many.

00:30:58.515 --> 00:31:01.995
Yeah, there are too many. My favorite classic. I do love a Butterfinger.

00:31:02.835 --> 00:31:06.495
Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger. Yeah. Bart Simpson style.

00:31:06.495 --> 00:31:07.695
Bart Simpson style. Yeah.

00:31:08.655 --> 00:31:12.435
You know, my kids have the nut allergy. So it's like I have easy access to lots

00:31:12.435 --> 00:31:15.335
of like overflow of nut filled candies.

00:31:15.835 --> 00:31:19.155
So that's pretty good. Yes. Yes.

00:31:20.333 --> 00:31:24.313
Uh, okay. What about your, uh, favorite Halloween costume? Didn't you?

00:31:24.473 --> 00:31:27.433
I think I remember this one. What is it? What?

00:31:28.133 --> 00:31:31.213
I think it was the one, wasn't the one where you dressed up and your sister

00:31:31.213 --> 00:31:33.933
was like, who is that? And you wore like a man pad. Oh my God.

00:31:34.093 --> 00:31:37.713
When I was Diana from Rags to Riches, an 80s classic jam.

00:31:39.073 --> 00:31:44.753
Yes. Yes. I, you know, as much as I have a flair for like all things like theatrical,

00:31:45.733 --> 00:31:49.493
you know, I, I'm Halloween is not one of my favorite holidays,

00:31:49.493 --> 00:31:55.433
but I do, I have to say like the further away that I get and now I like that

00:31:55.433 --> 00:31:59.033
I've lost creative control over my children's Halloween situation.

00:31:59.633 --> 00:32:03.013
You know, it's like, I was like the number one, like premier director of their

00:32:03.013 --> 00:32:07.773
lives for so long. And now that I've lost creative control, it's like hard to, you miss it, you know?

00:32:08.253 --> 00:32:14.133
And, um, and so I do pine a little bit for like those family moments of like

00:32:14.133 --> 00:32:18.473
the trunk or treat and the, you know, I like, there's been some like younger

00:32:18.473 --> 00:32:22.633
moms at school or, you know, women that I teach with that have younger kids.

00:32:22.893 --> 00:32:27.013
And, and I'm like, you know, you may feel really stressed out about it,

00:32:27.013 --> 00:32:30.813
but once it's over, like you will pine for it.

00:32:30.913 --> 00:32:36.053
You will like look back and think like, oh man, like that was so much fun.

00:32:36.053 --> 00:32:39.513
And we had such a great time and like creating all of those memories.

00:32:39.813 --> 00:32:46.773
And yeah, so I, as a parent, probably the year that we did Drunk or Treat as

00:32:46.773 --> 00:32:51.993
a family and we did a Christmas story like for Halloween, that was definitely

00:32:51.993 --> 00:32:54.313
like a standout for me as a parent.

00:32:54.513 --> 00:32:58.833
But as a kid, yeah, for sure. That was really funny when I was Diana.

00:32:59.153 --> 00:33:03.893
Nice. You know, oh, Diana. I've watched a lot of clips on that, of that on YouTube.

00:33:05.473 --> 00:33:09.173
And they all sang. It was just so great. Mr. Foley. Anyway.

00:33:09.713 --> 00:33:16.233
And my favorite Halloween, we do, for sure, the Charlie Brown, I Gotta Rock.

00:33:17.300 --> 00:33:20.280
Yeah poor guy poor guy

00:33:20.280 --> 00:33:23.200
yeah i do think they've caught like being a ghost

00:33:23.200 --> 00:33:25.980
uh with like just the sheet and the eyes and like the dirt

00:33:25.980 --> 00:33:29.020
just seems really funny yeah collectively but we

00:33:29.020 --> 00:33:32.100
do we're doing a costume at school this year i heard

00:33:32.100 --> 00:33:34.980
yes um and so i think that that's nice they usually

00:33:34.980 --> 00:33:37.920
do like a little gym teacher action i do think it's hysterical the

00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:40.660
people that have done like the six seven costumes like that

00:33:40.660 --> 00:33:43.760
they're going to be like the number six and seven yeah i

00:33:43.760 --> 00:33:46.580
think that's really super funny someone's raising their hand

00:33:46.580 --> 00:33:49.260
yeah that would be me because myself and

00:33:49.260 --> 00:33:52.200
my co-teacher are getting shirts made and he's going to be six

00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:55.480
and i'm going to be seven i also have um i've

00:33:55.480 --> 00:33:58.120
banned six seven in my classroom because we are

00:33:58.120 --> 00:34:01.420
currently in the middle of a uh unit on colonial

00:34:01.420 --> 00:34:04.240
america and the revolutionary war so basically we do seven six

00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:07.780
instead of six seven so anytime anytime we

00:34:07.780 --> 00:34:10.680
like say 1776 or like like whatever we're

00:34:10.680 --> 00:34:13.760
like seven six and they have to do their hands instead of up like

00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:16.700
palms up they have to do palms down and it's become like

00:34:16.700 --> 00:34:19.380
a thing in my class uh which is

00:34:19.380 --> 00:34:22.240
cute so i'm trying to like lean into uh all the

00:34:22.240 --> 00:34:26.720
craziness that these kids are are constantly talking about and all the memes

00:34:26.720 --> 00:34:30.720
and all the fun stuff that they do a hundred percent you know it wasn't like

00:34:30.720 --> 00:34:34.460
we didn't have those things when we were younger but we definitely they didn't

00:34:34.460 --> 00:34:39.460
catch on as fast they took longer it was more of a grassroots type of situation,

00:34:39.980 --> 00:34:41.500
like the current doy doy.

00:34:42.146 --> 00:34:45.686
Oh, yeah. There's the Kaisenat noise. There's that, which is,

00:34:45.686 --> 00:34:47.806
you know, obnoxious during class. That's great.

00:34:48.606 --> 00:34:52.886
Listen, we are children of the 90s. I'm sure one of one of the two of us talked

00:34:52.886 --> 00:35:00.426
like Pauly Shore or, you know, or you talked like Wayne and Garth from from Wayne's World.

00:35:02.086 --> 00:35:05.806
Excellent. What was what I mean? Pauly Shore. I.

00:35:06.266 --> 00:35:11.906
Yeah. The weasel. Oh, my goodness. Oh, yeah. The weasel. I really liked him.

00:35:12.326 --> 00:35:17.946
And Jason and I recently talked about why I liked him.

00:35:18.006 --> 00:35:21.746
Because I feel like we were dating at the time and there was a movie where he,

00:35:21.926 --> 00:35:23.826
I think it was like the son-in-law.

00:35:24.166 --> 00:35:27.046
And like he has to, right? He pretends he's going to marry somebody.

00:35:27.326 --> 00:35:29.266
But he like wins everybody over.

00:35:29.986 --> 00:35:34.166
And I was like, God, I must have watched that movie like 50 times.

00:35:34.326 --> 00:35:38.746
And it was like, why? And just said, why did you like Pauly Shore so much?

00:35:38.746 --> 00:35:45.286
And I think like he was just like silly and he was safe and he didn't, right.

00:35:45.346 --> 00:35:49.586
He never seemed like he was like flirty, but he didn't seem like he would harm you in any way.

00:35:49.746 --> 00:35:52.966
So it was kind of like an innocent, safe flirt situation. Not that I've met

00:35:52.966 --> 00:35:58.666
him, but like in my mind, I tried to describe why I liked him so much.

00:36:00.146 --> 00:36:05.566
Yeah. He was funny, but yes. Yeah. He would say all sorts of ridiculous things.

00:36:05.566 --> 00:36:09.046
Like, uh, If you're edged because I'm wheezing on all your grindage,

00:36:09.206 --> 00:36:10.986
just chill. That's what he would say.

00:36:11.426 --> 00:36:15.146
These kids say the same type of stuff. We say ridiculous things.

00:36:15.466 --> 00:36:18.746
Chopped cheese. Chopped cheese. Yo, you're so cooked, bro.

00:36:19.306 --> 00:36:22.706
Okay? Yeah. So I guess that would be my other nightmare.

00:36:23.366 --> 00:36:26.846
My haunted house would be turn the corner in my haunted house,

00:36:26.846 --> 00:36:30.966
and it's just all kids talking about memes and ridiculous stuff.

00:36:30.966 --> 00:36:36.666
But I think I understand most of it But I wouldn't understand any of it If I

00:36:36.666 --> 00:36:38.906
was in my haunted house Turning the corner,

00:36:39.815 --> 00:36:42.635
I hope I don't have a nightmare tonight now. Oh, no. Where, like,

00:36:42.695 --> 00:36:43.975
the haunted house comes true.

00:36:44.435 --> 00:36:46.695
Oh, no. It's like the back-to-school dreams, you know? Oh, yeah.

00:36:46.695 --> 00:36:49.635
Sometimes we start, like, super early, and now I'm like, oh, no. Yep.

00:36:50.435 --> 00:36:54.115
This petty puppy is, you know, not prepared.

00:36:55.655 --> 00:36:59.035
Yeah, it seems like you're not, you're, you know, on the petty patrol.

00:37:00.975 --> 00:37:05.335
So, look, there's nothing wrong with it. Sometimes we just get in that funk and in that mood, right?

00:37:05.475 --> 00:37:09.215
I gotta get out of it. I gotta get out of it. It's also, I think we're getting

00:37:09.215 --> 00:37:10.255
right towards fall break.

00:37:10.915 --> 00:37:15.035
We are. And what exciting big news do we have for our listeners? Oh, my goodness.

00:37:16.355 --> 00:37:20.135
We have not even talked about this, if you've stayed with us till the end of the episode.

00:37:22.655 --> 00:37:25.715
We will be at the New Jersey State Teachers Convention.

00:37:26.435 --> 00:37:30.755
We're going to be down there on the Thursday of the convention weekend.

00:37:31.295 --> 00:37:36.735
The NJEA Teachers Convention is being hosted in Atlantic City,

00:37:36.975 --> 00:37:41.615
New Jersey, and it is running the first week of November.

00:37:41.915 --> 00:37:47.015
And we will be there in person if you would like to come and find us,

00:37:47.135 --> 00:37:49.735
meet us, greet us and chat with us, which we would love.

00:37:49.915 --> 00:37:55.055
We will be there on Thursday, November 6th at the Convention Center.

00:37:55.255 --> 00:37:59.475
We're going to be doing some work for the pod, some questions,

00:37:59.795 --> 00:38:04.635
some, you know, just being out there, finding fans and talking to people,

00:38:04.975 --> 00:38:05.995
talking to other teachers.

00:38:06.255 --> 00:38:09.015
Man on the street interviews and questions. We're also going to be doing some

00:38:09.015 --> 00:38:12.035
content with our sponsor, Teachers Insurance Plant.

00:38:12.215 --> 00:38:17.215
So we'll be doing that too, which we're really excited to head down there and meet some people.

00:38:17.415 --> 00:38:23.875
And, you know, maybe I think we're going to be looking for a fun episode from

00:38:23.875 --> 00:38:29.655
the Teachers Convention that we're going to get some responses from people. and cut it together.

00:38:29.855 --> 00:38:31.795
So that one will be a little bit different that we're going to put together.

00:38:31.995 --> 00:38:36.955
I'm looking forward to that. And Mr. Vitale, when you find yourself in a casino...

00:38:37.582 --> 00:38:40.842
Yes. Without your Sith Lord costume.

00:38:41.342 --> 00:38:45.122
Oh, yes. Now, don't be confused, everybody. I won't be a petty puppy at the

00:38:45.122 --> 00:38:46.802
convention, right? Okay, good.

00:38:46.842 --> 00:38:50.122
So look for me, not my pink petty self.

00:38:50.662 --> 00:38:54.442
What is your game? Oh, I do play poker.

00:38:55.582 --> 00:38:58.722
I guess I started playing with all my friends when poker got big,

00:38:58.722 --> 00:39:00.782
like, you know, a couple years ago.

00:39:01.002 --> 00:39:04.662
Sure. We used to play on a regular game on Wednesday nights when we didn't have kids.

00:39:04.662 --> 00:39:09.482
We were in our 20s and we would play all the time. so i do play and i have played

00:39:09.482 --> 00:39:16.682
down in in the casino um and also i don't like losing money so.

00:39:18.102 --> 00:39:21.082
Part of it is like i can play uh a

00:39:21.082 --> 00:39:26.922
game like one two limit poker and i could play for four hours and lose 60 bucks

00:39:26.922 --> 00:39:30.582
and i'm like okay i played for four hours you know what i mean or i could play

00:39:30.582 --> 00:39:35.242
i could play for four hours and make 15 dollars like it's not about it's more

00:39:35.242 --> 00:39:38.342
about playing and enjoying the experience than it is about like winning money.

00:39:38.562 --> 00:39:42.862
I'm just not a huge gambler. I don't have like that disposable income.

00:39:43.942 --> 00:39:46.942
What about yourself? What are you? I mean, I think a lot of people don't have

00:39:46.942 --> 00:39:49.022
the disposable income. Yeah. Yeah. But they do it anyway.

00:39:49.622 --> 00:39:52.582
Yeah, exactly. I'm a roulette fan. Okay.

00:39:53.242 --> 00:39:57.842
I love, you know, just to belly up to a roulette table. It's really nice.

00:39:58.122 --> 00:40:03.122
It's really nice. Yeah. So I will for sure play some roulette when I'm, you know.

00:40:03.977 --> 00:40:07.917
Enjoying the convention for sure yes well

00:40:07.917 --> 00:40:10.757
you're all on black baby you're also doing a

00:40:10.757 --> 00:40:13.637
little uh get away with your hubs your hubsy

00:40:13.637 --> 00:40:16.457
too uh yeah i mean he's gonna be there for sure

00:40:16.457 --> 00:40:23.657
and i i mean i if if i can make it and catch the keynote speaker uh malala yasasai

00:40:23.657 --> 00:40:29.977
i will be just tickled pink i i'm really looking forward to that the speakers

00:40:29.977 --> 00:40:34.897
that they have um a lot of the workshops a lot of the offerings are really, um, are pretty great.

00:40:35.117 --> 00:40:39.197
So I can understand, you know, at this time of year, you may not,

00:40:39.317 --> 00:40:41.497
you may be exhausted and just need a full break.

00:40:41.657 --> 00:40:46.397
Um, but just go on walking around and, um, hopefully if, if we're there when

00:40:46.397 --> 00:40:49.937
we're there and you see us, um, please introduce yourself and,

00:40:50.177 --> 00:40:53.677
uh, we can't wait to meet you. Yeah, we absolutely can't wait to meet you.

00:40:53.937 --> 00:40:57.177
Um, any of our listeners that are going to be down there and hopefully

00:40:57.177 --> 00:41:00.277
we'll even get some more listeners from uh you

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yeah awesome so as always my friend i appreciate you on this spooky halloween

00:41:34.017 --> 00:41:39.237
and i appreciate you and i wish you nothing but love and almond joys yes i will

00:41:39.237 --> 00:41:43.617
have all the almond joys and don't be harsh in my mellow bro did paulie shore

00:41:43.617 --> 00:41:47.337
say that i have no idea um all right so we will see everybody next time.