Taylor the Teacher

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I have wanted to post a raw twitter session but am finding it hard because twitter doesn’t lend itself to re-publishing tweets. This is a shortcoming of twitter. So, to read this, you have to start at the bottom and read up. I’ll see how it works.

Read from the bottom up! OR — Just skip it — it’s probably too much trouble. (See that reverse psychology?)

• Or is this only an issue in my head from too many years in the bible belt?
• the point is — I’m not dangerous; I’m just a little crazy. Have we gone so far down this Ostrich Road that we can’t realize the difference?
• I’m going to teacher hell; where is that exactly?
• there i go again!
• but as IM, it kinda sucks ass
• it really isn’t enough of a writing tool, or it would have more functionality as a writing tool 
• I’m realizing that the problem with posting a raw twitter is the formatting — which is on twitter, not wordpress
• or am i just imagining this prejudice b/c of the bible belt area I live in and the media?
• or is it only that I admit it out loud? Because I’m sure kids notice what their parents do as well.
• Superbowl watching drinkers. If parents drink on superbowl sunday, then am I automatically “unprofessional” because I drink & write…
• the writing drinkers seem at least as likely to be interested in such things as words, numbers and language as the
• some of us like to drink and write and that we happen to be teachers?
• Considering that most of the American adult population drinks (most of humanity does and has imbibed) is it so unusual that
• but I would still take their advice over a lot of the parents I’ve met
• mankind has had to offer kids before? I mean, I could die face down in a gutter like poe, or have to go to rehab like stephen king
• and are we really that sure that adults drinking and writing is the worst thing we have to worry about? and is it different from what
• kidnapping and beating a man — and I just wanna drink wine on my porch and write and talk to others who like to drink wine and write
• and seemed to get a sense of that from “some” — and yet parents leave children unsupervised to go and rob people and get arrested for
• I say this because I, living in the bible belt, expect people to be upset that I mentioned “drunken writing night” on my blog
• Conversely — if I write a personal blog (as many people do) that I can never mention teaching, which is a HUGE part of my life?
• So “someone else” may have been the wrong phrase. But do I have to have my teacher hat on all the time?
• because there’s a time and place for things
• like you’re trying to pretend like you don’t poop — it’s just inappropriate to discuss
• but the decision not to poop in the hallway isn’t hypocritical, or in any way construed as being hypocritical
• that’s just rude
• I explain that everyone poops, but nobody expects you to do it in the middle of the hallway. pooping in the hallway isn’t “keepin it real”
• They know I’m real. when they say something mean or rude or inappropriate for the situation
• Even though I think I’m quite genuine with my students. They say so, too.
• Or does being a teacher mean that I’m supposed to be someone else ALL THE TIME….
• twitter sucked ass this week — which leads to my question — are teachers allowed to say that anything “sucked ass?”