Obama mentioned us in the last debate tonight!!!

WOW! He said Rhee is excellent and that we are suffering... this hit home and I was definitely moved... I see a better future made possible by both him and Rhee!

D-C-P-S come on ya'll we are the BEST! D-C-P-S! The best in all the U.-S.!

Teachers for Obama!!! Mamas for Obama! Obama 08! 09! to 12! to 2016!

WTF Rhee??? I liked Dr. BenZion!

My daughters principal got fired this weekend! WTF? I am talking as a parent now...

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1008/561119_video.html?ref=newsstory

I am heated, but can't speak as a teacher now because as a teacher, I am also trying to keep my job!

I am done...DCPS!!!

Let me calm down before I loose my job for sepaking out on a blog!

Is my career coming to an end???

You know honestly.. I never wanted to become a teacher...

No one ever thought I'd be a good mommy...

I think I got lost in he prejudice atmosphere of the private schools my mother and father sent me to 1st-8th then in public school for a taste of 6 months, a shooting in 91 and the death of a fellow classmate from Langley JHS, sent me back to Private school in 9th grade and then back to finish in public the following 3 years after...

By then...the rebel/angry/scarred/motivated me, developed a positive image at Ellington SHS but lost it in the midst of trying to fit in with two worlds... peers and passion...

But being taught that school is EVERYTHING by my mother, a veteran DCPS teacher of 35+ years and my grandmother an FCPS vet of 30+ years...and my Vietnam vet and police officer father.. I came from a pretty heavy deal background...

My passion for myself..and my experiences...and my background... excited me more into trying to get my peers to... see what I see... and that created a catastrophe on one end...and a beautiful beginning on another...

Life kicks ass...

but it kicked me into k.eeping i.t s.imple s.tupid and kissing passion goodbye and reality set in...

I got pregnant... wanted a better life for my daughter before I even met her... and from what could I base my future on...my past...mom was a teacher... the best thing for me to do and know is to become one too...I go broke on trying to provide her and the others with the best of the best of everything and every opportunity... wouldn't you?

So, here I am... 3 kids later...8 years teaching... lifetime of struggle (maybe not)... and even though I love kids and have changed may lives... I also have my own to worry about... and without them.. there would have never been a career in teaching, it wasn't my passion...however, I work it well...

In a nutshell... I am a mom first, I need to take care of mine and provide more than what I was given...in this day and time...impossible? No, but in teaching... as of Oct 1st...that answer took a turn for nowhere...

Money isn't everything, but it keeps my own children taken care of, and me alive to live averagely...along with my spirit, never ending passion for WRITING (who knew!), and my kids future endeavors...then yours!

Hope I'm not being too selfish... but oh I am! Wouldn't you be...?

I have a Plan B too...

please check my other blog: mommilanandjr.blogspot.com for info on that... need an effective Plan B and proof that it works... even if you are not ready to quit teaching or yoru day job yet... check this out!

Thanks for reading...