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Junkyard Quotes 31-35, Week 7

"If you're still planning on teaching, you'll need passion and Xanax."

A teacher asks me daily if I am still considering teaching, as if the students I deal with could scare me away. This was the most recent response after I said I still planned to teach.

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"'No Child Left Behind' doesn't mean no child left behind HERE."

While criticizing what the government and school systems pass down, this comment was thrown out. Some people in charge seem to misunderstand the doctrine, passing kids that they would rather not deal with on to the high school where they will continue to fail.

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"He's just so lazy; slow as molasses. If he was molasses, he wouldn't even run down hill."

My supervising teacher made this comment about a student that gets A's one day every couple of weeks. He is smart, but dislikes most types of work.

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"If one of us said, Andy, when Andy wasn't there, that silly Buddy would probably jump up barking and begin looking for him."

While looking at Marie Howe poetry for inspiration, I came across this line again from her poem "Buddy." I love the text because it gives a subject early on and refers to it vaguely for the rest of the piece, yet I never lose sight of what the speaker is refering to.

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"Someone tried to become a man in the bathroom."

I thought this to myself today while going to the restroom at Temple Middle. The place was drowning in the smell of piss and Axe. I could tell some middle schooler sprayed himself down in order to fight off BO and youth.

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