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Already too busy for words!

I took Sunday off as a day of rest!  And of course, it was Mother's day so I spent the day with my Mother.  My Dad took us out to eat and we watched a movie and had ice cream later.  Yesterday... I just completely forgot to post!  So this post will be about what I did yesterday.

Yesterday's focus was pertaining to the class I have this evening in Legal Issues.  I had a case brief that I needed to turn in for a homework assignment and NUMEROUS chapters in a law book to read.  Have you ever read a law book?  I have found that if you don't take it personal it can be rather dull reading.  By that I mean you have to really have a vested interest in what you are reading.  This really made me think about teaching and school in general.

Kids today get a pretty bum rap all around where school is concerned.  They are unfocused, bored, discipline problems, and all kinds of things... but rarely do you hear what I think is the real reason why.  Is what they are doing personal to them?  Have teacher's made the learning personal?  I remember when my daughter was learning decimals and she would come home from school complaining that she just didn't get all the junk that teacher was talking about.  So, I made it personal.  We went shopping.  We played with money talked about sales and percentages off so we could figure out how much we were really going to pay so we could stay within our budget, and it clicked for her.  All of a sudden those decimals and numbers and place values had meaning in her life.  I would never say anything derogatory about how my daughter's teacher taught, I wasn't there.  Maybe she did use great examples, they just weren't relevant to what my daughter was thinking was important.  I guess my point is here, much like that law book, it has to be personal to grab the kids' attention.

My legal brief was more about constitutional law and there just happened to be schools involved, so really no major lesson there.  The constitutional law that was broken was about checks and balances between the different branches of a specific state's government.  I wrote my brief, turned it in, and we will see what the professor thinks.  I'm hoping she likes it.  My undergraduate degree is in law and I've had A LOT of practice writing case briefs, complaints, contracts, and discovery documents.

Today I have class and still so much homework in my technology class.  I will be working long into the night.  But for now I hope everyone had a blessed Mother's day!

God Bless You!

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