Wednesday's Words on a Friday
The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.
The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.
If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.
This month the words/prompts are supplied by Messymimi and can be found here
This week's words/prompts are:
1.easy 2.student 3.invasion 4.encourage 5.housing 6.spectrum
and/or:
1.gaud (a trinket) 2.moil (drudgery) 3.pore on (pore over, think about, dwell on)
Also including Charlotte's colour of the month: straw yellow
Here is my story:
It isn’t easy being a
student these days, nor a teacher. The constant invasion of mobile phones pinging with
messages does nothing to encourage any child to pay attention and I often
wonder why I took up this moil of teaching.
I remember there was a
promise of housing being offered, which gave me a small kick in this direction,
but as I pore over the latest essay handed in by the token on-the-spectrum
student I realise that neither he nor I am making any progress at all.
He tries, but is
constantly interrupted by the rest of the class, (I hesitate to call them
students since none seem to study at all), with their jingling phones, their
gaudy trinkets, their wildly coloured hair and clothing.
I decide to focus more
on this one child and leave the rest to their fate. Once this term is over I
will hand in my notice and board the next ship back to Earth. Life on the moon
is not for me. I will try to convince the parents of this boy to join me. There
are better programs on Earth these days and he may do well, this child with the
straw yellow hair.
Yes. bring hoim away from all those distractions ;) Well written.
ReplyDeleteCharlotte; thank you, I hope the parents listen and bring him back to Earth.
DeleteIt sounds like the problems follow us wherever we go, which we knew anyway, right? Well written story.
ReplyDeletemessymimi; it's true everywhere I think. Thank you.
DeleteWhat an intriguing tale. I hope he does well with one on one attention and feel sure he will.
ReplyDeleteElephant's Child; I am sure he will too, but despair about the other kids. Life on the Moon needs some adjustments.
DeleteI´ll never understand why people go for Moon or even Mars instead of taking care of Mother Earth?
ReplyDeleteInteresting approach (of course! ;-)...) Here you have another problem. Many kids do neither speak German nor know our "rules" like... be polite. Let others talk, Don´t hit.
Teacher was a thought but when I saw what´s going on here... the Moon might be an option... Nah...
Iris; I am imagining this is a "test" pod to see how people manage with living on the moon and thinking maybe it was too early to start establishing a school there. Kids everywhere now have changed so much since we were kids and even that difference between my childhood and yours was a big difference too.
DeleteHey.... I am polite, no? ;-)
DeleteSad to learn it´s the same in your place. After all I thought Australia is quite "shut off"?
They will never take us. By now both +50 years old and Ingo sick > not a chance...
When I was young I had no work experience - not a chance in "your" point-system... strict rules. How come it has changed so much anyways? Maybe share, maybe many´d like to learn?
Iris; the biggest change is technology with most kids having computers, then mobile phones and Ipads etc, also when I was very young most mothers didn't go to work, now they do, possibly it is the same in many other countries.
DeleteHow interesting your version of being on the moon teaching well trying to - well done R.
ReplyDeleteMargaret D; I don't know why my mind went there, but it sounds interesting. Thank you.
DeleteI like this.You have captured well the teacher's dilemma, whether on the moon or not.
ReplyDeletejabblog; thank you, teachers do have a dilemma with all the new tech devices available, but here at least many schools are banning mobile phones during school hours, which is a good start.
DeleteOur schools start on Monday. Missouri just passed a law that cell phones are NOT ALLOWED to be used during the school day. Not even at lunch, or in the hall between classes. As you might imagine, students and parents are already complaining. This law is 9 years late for me! When I retired, it was already a struggle to keep students from sneaking out their phones in class. Now there will be more severe consequences if they're caught, because it's a law!
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