horrible day today.

[lostinspace]

Hi, do not say my name, you know who I am, I am at work. I had a horrible day. My fourth period one student call me an idiot and said that I could not even speak English correctly. Englsh is my second language and I will never speak it as good as a native speaker. It is unfaor that they condemn me for that. I wrote him up and told his mother that I did n ot want to see him in my class tomorrow that I wanted to rest from him, znd I told her that he is not going to exempt the exam. He is not. I have the privilege to exempt him, for good behavior, but the way he is treating me, and then the administration tell me that I create problems. I cannot believe the way I am being treated. BUt I do not feel so bad, just scared that I have to look for a new job. Just that. I cannot believe the amount of BS I have to put up to pay my rent. They do not treat other teacher the way they treat me. The lack of support, the invalidation,. that is what bothers me, not the chal;lenging kids, the challenging kids comes with the territory, I do not mind that, but the invalidation of my superior, the lack of support.

All that meditation, diet, exercise, all my work went down today, but, only for a few minutes, I recovered during the second half of sixth period. BY the way, sixth period was good today.

Thank you for listening.

Love to you all.

[lostinspace]

Please, do not mention my name, you know who I am. Love to you all.

God bless you all.

I appreciate any words of consolation, encouragement or support you can give me.

Love you.

[Chamomile]

(((hugs)))

[Leah]

(((((( Hugs )))))))    God Bless You

So glad to know that sixth period was good today.

Love, Leah

[Ami]

Sorry for the hard day. It sounds very, very trying. I am so sorry .                           Ami

[debkor]

It was a bad part of the day BUT you recoverd.  This is very good. You let it pass.  Good for you.

Love
Deb

[towrite]

Hugs to you. Stand firm on what you believe. Kids nowadays have too much privilege and not enuf discipline.

[Gaining Strength]

All that meditation, diet, exercise, all my work went down today, but, only for a few minutes, I recovered during the second half of sixth period. BY the way, sixth period was good today.

Don't lose sight of the progress you have made.  You had a bad day and ONE bad student got the better of you.  Do not let that one slip discourage you.  Look at the end of your message - 6th period was good.  Keep your eyes on the good.  Love to you - GS

[Iphi]

Agree with GS - keep your eyes on the prize and we will be thinking of you and cheering you on!

(((you)))

[lostinspace]

Cham, Iz, Iphi. GS, Deb, Ami, Lea, thank you so much for your kind words. GS thank you for helping me re-focus on the positive.

Today my supervisor asked me what I was listening and when I said Lous Hay she said that that was New Age and it was against Christ and I could not listen ot it.

So, now I cannot even listen to the few things that out me in a good mood.

I dont understand my place of work.

[Gaining Strength]

Lost in Space - I am not surprised at all.  Many fundamentalist and Charismatic christians believe that Louise Hay and many in her network including Wayne Dyer are not Christians and therefore their works are dangerous.  I keep my interest in those "secular" writings to myself and NEVER share them with my "christian" friends. 

It is interesting to me that the school won't let you listen to what you want to hear because it's not deemed "christian" and yet they don't mind the students being belittling and mean which according to the Bible hardens their hearts.  Your experience is precisely one of the reasons I keep my thoughts to myself around fundamentalists.  I do what I can to avoid being judged.

My thoughts are with you - GS

[Ami]

Dear Lostinspace,
 I agree with GS. There is so much hypocrisy among "Christians.". Scott's Catholic HS was like that. Your books would get stolen if you went to the bathroom---bleh.                 Ami

[lostinspace]

Thank you GS amd Ami. Not only that. but I cannot even choose or speak about the candidate I would like for president. If you are not pro-life you lose your job. I feel very , not sad, no scared. but disappointed, or sad, whatever you want to call it. I feel bad but cant identify the feeling, it is judt uncomfortable. I have to find another job. Please, pray for me. I do believe that these CDs that help me so much are not against anybody much less against Christ. I love Jesus and I would never do anything against my Lord Jesus. But I do believe that I should be able to lstien to tapes that help me feel better and have more self esteem.

Love to you all.

[towrite]

Dear one, the teacher next door to me was fired for reading the Bible silently.

If the good outweighs the bad, keep your eye on the prize.

towrite