Do we have one of these statues at MGM?

I found this pic from the CCUC official website. Did this make me want to vomit when I saw it again. Why am I smiling, 3rd place don't cut it for me. This will be one for the mirror to get me goin for this year.

Triangles - I made my return to The Brown and I missed my 4th graders so much whom I taught last week. I kept wondering if they remember me and if I made any impact on their lives. They all saw me and were hopin that I was their sub again. Sadly, I wasn't and it was great to see them, and I even spent a lil time with Kendall when we ran into each other in the office. She is by far my dream student, always pleasent and polite to be around. She kept jumpin up and down durin recess tryin to catch my attention. She even gave me a pretzel after school for a snack.

But I subbed for 3rd grade today and it went pretty well. It was the staff that I ran into and everyone sayin hi to me was the good stuff. It just showed that they remember me and all. I didn't agree with the teacher's methods of how she rewards kids though. Actually it's that type of system that teaches kids to expect a reward every time. Her system is that she uses play money, to reward kids if they do something good. She also fines kids if they do something bad. My thing is why does it have to be money that she uses? I mean some of the stuff that she wanted to me to do to reward them I chose not to. If anything I didn't follow any of her systems because I set the bar high on my kids and some of that stuff is expected of them. I may be regarded as one of the "coolest teachers" but my kids always know when it's time to be serious.

One of the funny things also was how one of the staff members told me to becareful of that class due to the behavior. I shrugged it off because there hasn't been a situation that I can't handle. Lastly, it irritated me a lil about who I was subbin for. She was in a couple of my classes at OU and man I think she was one of those classmates I couldn't stand, what was worst was the lesson plans, so many spellin errors on there and not the right assignments. I guess that was my thing that I learned today, leave correct plans for my subs.

I'm goin back to my alma mater to sub on Thursday! What's even more ironic is subbin for my old 3rd/5th Grade teacher! Gosh I'll never forget my days at The Plum because that's where the K-1-3 started.

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