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February 08, 2008

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LisaL

Good Lord. At best, that reading specialist is extremely unprofessional and not very effective at her job; at worst, she's a bee-yotch. I hardly think mocking is the best way to motivate people. Go for the guilt latte!
Love the Simon & Garfunkel reference. I think the '70s were the last time I could say with confidence I know all the lyrics to a song.

maddy

Oh, that sounds just terrible. I'm glad for the apologies and coffee, but still...

The worst is when you are doing your job (and it's trying enough) and are attacked out of the blue. It's so disheartening.

blackbird

I'm getting in the car.
It will take me about 5 or 6 hours, depending on traffic.
I'll meet you at school.
You point her out.
AND I'M GOING TO KICK HER GODDAMN ASS.

Laura/DaPFG

haha...blackbird RULES.

in other news, i'm glad you were at least able to hold out until you got to your classroom. i am SO thin-skinned - i would have been crying my eyes out at the first disapproving glance.

Pam L

Oh yeah, talking down to people and mocking them is ALWAYS the way to make your point and get cooperation from someone, cuz people LOVE losing their last shred of dignity like that. And what the HELL does "Lacking Intellectual Curiosity" MEAN anyway? Did she even come up with some sort of useful suggestion as to how you could avoid that? Or is this all for show and you were not showing enough "flair" or something, not playing the game right by bringing some meaningless facts to the table to impress the other teams. Anyone can do that but I don't see how that would mean the kids were getting better educated because someone can spout some data at a meeting. See, this is why my husband and I left the corporate world and have been self employed for the last 15 years, too much bullshit. Gawd!, what crap.I would have cried to if I were talked to that way from a "professional." Ridiculous.

Gretchen

I had a crappy day at work Wednesday, too, but I blamed it on the snow and the fact that you can't walk more than 5 steps around here without almost falling on your butt. Although it's been that way since the beginning of December so I don't know why it should be getting to me now! But I'm beginning to think it was just "Have an incredibly frustrating and draining day at work" day. There was a lot of that going on around here.

vicki

oh dear, oh dear. Conflict between friendly colleagues makes for a miserable day. I'm sorry you had to go through this and why am I reading "No Child, blah,blah,blah" between the lines? I mean, how much data can there possibly be about your first graders reading progress and how heady is it? I know- don't ask. I'm sure there's plenty to go around.

This reminds me of Rich, who spends a lot of time asking me if I have checked the weather and what, pray tell, are all the specifics? I used to respond with, "Stick your head out the door." Now I say something intellectual, like "High tide, at 2.6 feet, will be at 347 pm at the Snell Island Bridge."

vicki

P.S. We really were separated at birth. Rich has been gone a mere two days and this place is a pit...

Kimberly

Oh, Jane is not the only one rolling their eyes here.

She mocked you? Mocked you in front of others? Uh-uh. No, no. That's when you do that snapping thing. (3 snaps, suck lips, head goes side to side...we'll practice)

And dude, she won you back with a email apology and a latte? (I'm making that lip smacking sound again)

I'm mad now. How intelligent do you have to me to mock someone? Duh. (see, now I'm being nasty....grrr)

PS- Am I the only one who has a cleaner house when my husband is away?

Heidi

A guilt latte does not make up for unprofessional behavior. Especially from a FRIEND. Period.

Paula

How OLD is this paragon of intellectual curiosity anyway?

Lex

You have a great commenter posse here. Good to have a Kick Assing army should you ever need it. I hope you can squeeze some relaxation into your intellectually packed weekend! (I've been reading for a while but my first time commenting. Love it!)

Liza Lee Miller

Mocking others is tacky. Mocking others in front of them is mean to the core. THe only thing I'd have done differently was cc'd the principal on my initial response to her so that she got her butt busted and had to apologize in front of said principal. But, then again, I am a mean bitch. Shame on her.

Intellectual curiosity. Holy crap how did you control yourself from saying something give me something intellectual to be curious about and I'll show you intellectual curiousity. Give me a bunch of stupid numbers about my students and I'll sit down and glaze over and tell that what I really need to be doing is spending more time with my students . . . you know . . . teaching them. Rather than spending our valuable lunchtime being nagged and ridiculed. Argh!

Oh, and I'm totally with you. When my husband is out of town, we eat pizza 3x a day and don't clean up anything. When I am out of town, the house is perfect when I return -- it's most annoying.

The Cubicle's Backporch

In the words of Stephanie Tanner: How Rude!

It sucks that they had to lump everyone together instead of pointing out the real issues with whoever is lacking 'intellectual curiousity.' WTF is that anyway?

Buck Starr

Personally, I'd do anything for a latte. A mocha latte, a mocka latte, any kinda latte. But, no matter how many lattes, I'd still be steamed.

Jane

The only thing I am rolling my eyes at is the fact that a first grade teacher is supposed to show "intellectual curiousity" like she's a fucking TENURED professor at GEORGETOWN for chrissakes instead of woefully underpaid glorified BABYSITTER who gets treated worse than the fucking CUSTODIAN and is forced to spend time teaching to a fucking TEST.

And no one mocks my girl. I am sending internet curses.

Miz S

All you badasses are making me feel warm and fuzzy.

Pam L

no really, I want to know the definition of "intellectual curiosity" in regards to the "reading data." are you supposed to be curious about the data itself? are you not asking questions about the data? should you need to? just curious. Was she, as the reading specialist, feeling like no one was paying attention to her data? Sounds like a personal problem to me.
maybe she who said that should take this test: http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=15289224466050307642

Wende

Well, in my experience, all intellectual curiosity ever did was get me deeper into debt with school loans.

Have a lovely weekend.

It's Omar!

I suggest you go to the next meeting wearing two black belts crisscrossing your chest, just visible under a long trench coat. See who criticizes you then.

Laura

Who has time for intellectual curiousity? Aren't you supposed to be spending that time teaching them to READ?
I really do not like that woman latte or no latte.

Margaret

I agree with Laura. As the saying goes, "When you're knee deep in alligators, it's impossible to remember that your goal was to clean the swamp!" I (our whole staff) had a horrible day on Wednesday; the staff meeting was full of atrocities about what we have to do, blah, blah. Most of us came away from it shaking or in tears--or both in my case. I EVEN SAID THE F WORD TO MY FRIEND! It drove me to that. The people who have the time and luxury of "intellectual curiosity" don't teach in the classroom. As for mimicking, that's so elementary school, as in popular among 7 year olds.

paula

Hey babe, you need to put on your Miz S-ness and let her have it. Or. I'll help blackbird kick her ass. Either way works for me.

And the sloppy college freshman thing while the hubby's away? As long as you brush your teeth and your hair once a day your good to go...

paula

you're. you're good to go. sheesh...

bonnie

Our Mary is most certainly intellectually curious!!
To hear someone say otherwise makes us furious.

Too many lattes will get one juiced.
And, getting outed is now called Dooced.

Revel in your RIGHTNESS please, Miz S.
Relax, breathe deeply, Namaste, God bless!


Miz Robyn

Oh, I will KICK HER ASS. What kind of bullshit is that? UGH.

(And I think she owes you a week of lattes. No, a MONTH. UGH AGAIN.)

Vanessa

What a crock o' shite, Mary. At least you held your tears until you were alone. May I please join the ass-kicking posse?

the bee

No Intellectual curiosity ? What the H is that anyway? I watch reality tv shows so she may have meant me by accident. I am all for going over and kicking her lame latte giving behind. Does she not know the steps of groveling? It includes at the very least a latte and a chocolate chip biscuit at the very least. Add fresh squeezed juice if you are truly sorry. Also, officially forgiving her is fine for you but I do not forgive her for making you upset.
Blackbird .. lead the way .. we are off to an official can of you know what.

raehan

Why do I want to blame all of this on "No Child Left Behind"?

*Gasp* You mean the first grade teachers are busy teaching rather than pouring over data? Shocking. You should be publically flogged. But it sounds like you sort of already were.

vicki

(Smiling. You got a poem. Even though you swear, the sign of an ignorant mind, you got a poem. Smiling.)

MsCellania

I just typed a scathing reply to that douchebag 'reading specialist' and the post got lost somehow, which indicated to me that it was a waste of energy. As is your worrying about what that idiotic woman said to you. She's a loser, Mary.

Ree

Methinks the other people POURING over the data simply do not have enough to do in their days with actually, oh, I don't know, fuckin' teaching?!?

I say POUR the wine. I'm with Blackbird. Don't know where you are, but I'm on my way. (Um, can I get directions here dude?)

Readersguide

Well, also, it seems that if there was some improvement she needed the "first grade team" to make, she needed to go about it a different way, instead of mocking you all in a larger meeting. What do I know, but it seems like stupid way to go about things. Hmmph.

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