Sorhors,
I guess that between my original post and today, Tuesday, July 16, 2002 I have been given several chances to work on not telling people off and saying bad words. For example, today at the end of school (summer) one of the parents called a parent-teacher conference meeting because she wanted to know how her child was doing in Algebra and Civics. The young lady must pass these two courses to go on to the 9th grade for the 2002-2003 school year. The girl is doing fine in my class, Civics and Economics; however, she's doing poorly in the math class so I had to sit through a very long conference (45 plus minutes) when all the mother really needed was to talk with the math teacher about some strategies so the kid will pass the course. To make a long story short is that I didn't get angry with everyone in the conference, I remained calm, and even helped the counselor, math teacher, and parent come up with a few strategies to help the young lady pass. I know that I'm not there yet, however, I'm really working very hard on this resolution to keep calm and solve the problem without saying a few choice words
to all parties involved
!
Serioussigma22