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Post by EscapeHatch on Jan 22, 2009 19:17:37 GMT -5
Glad you made it to the quark side.
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Post by CM on Jan 22, 2009 19:58:14 GMT -5
Gene, I’m not as quick as most so almost always need to read your post twice and have dictionary.com handy, I’m glad you have joined us, I will be enriched.
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Post by Jack on Jan 22, 2009 20:07:47 GMT -5
Gene, I think you'll find it quite comfy in here. Plenty of room to speak your mind, set up your own threads and my favorite part, a spell checker. I eagerly await my next history lesson.
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Post by tpfkalarry on Jan 22, 2009 20:40:05 GMT -5
Gene,
Here is the message I attempted to send to Onwatch:
Gene, Hatch posted a message from you on the whatever they are calling that thing Rick is using for the blog. I suggested to him that if it was easier you could use either him or myself as a conduit. I cannot really determine why I miss the old dialogue we used to have, realizing that it may just seem that much better in nostalgic terms, but I have a number of theories. For someone like myself it seemed to make me consider my words more carefully knowing there was no free passes. In some respects it was good to know that the people on the other side of the issue had hearts and minds at least the equal of my own.
More personally it reminded me of conversations I had with my father who I often disagreed with although not always out loud. He was after all a captain in the navy and clearly outranked me. I remember sometimes tuning him out or at least I had thought only to hear his words again sometimes decades later. Your thoughts have that same familiarity with often the same delay in comprehension. You remind me of him in other ways as well. Sadly I never knew my father as an adult. I often wonder how much more I would have appreciated his words had he lived. Equally as sad is that I never really got a chance to let him know how much his words have come to influence and guide me in my adult life and especially in conversations with my son and my students.
Reading Hatch's post made me think that it would be either sad or stupid to not let you know that no matter how much I pretended your opinion was not as informed or as sophisticated as my own, somehow your words stayed in my memory long after I had forgotten what I had written. There is a gentleman at our school who is the instructional assistant for the kids who are in the resource program (some diagnosed learning disability but not severe enough to warrant placement in a special day class). We have helped each other over the last couple of years to raise our expectations for these students along with their own and their parents. With his help last year we actually had two of those students test out of their freshman algebra requirement. Watching him work with students makes me think of you and how you chose to work with children of need. I don't know if they all had the chance to thank you for your wisdom and inspiration either. Thank you
Larry
I had originally written this as something that would best be delivered as a personal message. But I am neither ashamed of these thoughts or uncomfortable with making them public. I hope they do not make you uncomfortable. I used to think that some things went without saying. Age makes me think that is a stupid expression.
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