Reasons Lists

I recently read three different list over on my favorite spirtual website. This site doesn't really condemn or condone some behaviors that are done by christians and non christians. It does talk about topics that I wouldn't hear from a preacher or even a local church leader. If I ever come to have some position of influence in my church community, I am going to recommend this site to my audience.

Anyways, two of the lists were about cons of dating christians and pros of dating christians. I have read the eight reasons between the two lists and feel pretty good about what is said. I may be in practice of some of the reasons. One of the main points is that christians are eager to advance in their life as God outlined for them in the Bible and do push some of the issues at times. This may be a good thing between two eager and like minded individuals. The problem is finding the person that is willing and ready to commit in a way that satisfies both parties.

The other list was about some of the things that teachers have done to disenfranchise their students. Some of the horror stories that happened have occurred in my student era. I read the list and realized that there are some things that I would need to change if and when I am able to get a full time job. One item that struck me was incompetent teachers who don't prepare and have poor classroom management. Those were my main issues in my tenure. I made poor lesson plans. I was afraid to take a day off, because I would have to make excellent plans that a sub could achieve. That seemed like more work than having a day off was worth. I did get better at making and writing plans by the end of the year, but it had more to do with my principal and superintendent requiring them every monday. I also really lacked classroom management. I generally let things go until I decided they had to be sent away. I never gave one detention in my one year of full time employment. My principal noticed this and called me out on it. I have the philosophy that students in the age group I had are curious and should get some leeway in their questions and interest. Many students take chemistry because it seems like the thing to do. After a while, they realize what work they had to do and gave up on some of the harder concepts. This wasn't really any fault of mine or the students. I should have been more authoritative, but in retrospect the administration knew I was going to be there for one year and knew who they were gonna hire after I was gone before they hired me. There wasn't much I could have done in that year to improve my standing anyways.

In other news, I may move in a house cat here soon. The mice are not falling for my peanut butter/mousetrap combination. I keep seeing mice run along the floorboards and its starting to creep me out. Maybe I can borrow one of my parents house cats for a month or so and see how satisfied I am.

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