studying. yeah.

So I'm studying. I have today and tomorrow. Test is Monday. I am still wound up from my interview. My interviewers were:a certain someone, and also a lady from the library... I have spoken with her before, actually and I was pleased to see her because it was great to be able to say "Yes you do!" when she said "I'm so and so and I work at the library!" and then we could talk about how she's seen me there studying and not just drinking coffee. I love that library. I spent many a happy hour studying math there for my PRAXIS/PPST exam. Like, ten or more happy hours. She came and got me one night because the library workers were hosting cookes and milk and after school TV watching and we had a talk about where she worked before and what she did and all that stuff.

The certain someone in that interview was the sister of the wife of the pastor that fired me from being their church secretary. Supposedly I resigned but he wanted to get rid of me. I'm not sure how I feel about that. But my hope is anyone involved in that situation knows exactly what was going on and it didn't really have all that much to do with me. She was very nice and asked all easy questions. I think she was impressed anyway. Plus I loved her parents and aunt and uncle very much and hopefully that is good for some heavenly karma.

The library lady asked what happens if one of my students says "This is too hard, I can't do this!" and I flat out refused to accept that anything is too hard. She was laughing. I hope that was the right answer. I told her I've been through A LOT and I just can't imagine making some art is going to be too hard. Plus for whatever grade we're working with, there are specific plans I will have made for their level of development.

Then she asked, well, what if one of the 12th graders says, "Look, I'm not an artist, I don't want to do this!" I said, well, you can write in cursive, that to me is a learned skill. Making art in school is something to be learned. It's a problem solving activity. You need this for a grade. Looks like we're going to have to find a way to make it work.

The pastor's wife's sister sort of took over the rest of the interview and seemed impressed that I had thought ahead to the point that I could describe reasons to keep art around in these days of NCLB - I have all sorts of resources available for colleagues to use for their lessons in science, math, reading, writing...

So I tried to be very gracious.
It felt like a good interview.