Week in Review (1/29)
January 29th, 2010Note: authorities are looking for clues in the stabbing death of a two-year-old electric pencil sharpener. The victim was discovered when a teacher in the building heard him whirring in pain. She noticed the paper-clip end protruding from an opening and administered first aid by unplugging the victim. The pencil sharpener was pronounced dead several minutes later.
We were supposed to have a special presentation on the history of hip-hop today. A favorite technique in that kind of presentation is to embarrass the teachers, so I made a point of hiding by the drink machine. Effective? No!
What would you do in front of a cafeteria full of 200+ seventh grades who are screaming in delight because some cool hip-hoppin’ dude is in front of you gesturing for you to go up on stage? I agree- you would be really embarrassed. But I had decided in advance that I would refuse. I tired to make the case to my class later that it is ok to say “no” sometimes, and I tried to feel as if I had been strong in such a refusal, but the truth is that there is no way I could even pretend to do a 10-second solo dance like that…just no way.
One of the teachers that was dragged up there does some dancing. She traveled to school thinking, “Hmmm…I’ll probably get stuck dancing during the presentation- I’d better think about what I might do.”
i love this post. all of it.