June 2008 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the June 2008 issue of The Busy Educator's Newsletter edited by teacher, speaker and author Marjan Glavac.

At the end of the school year in May or June, I often times wonder whether I've made any impact as a teacher on my students. It was during one of these reflective moments that I remembered watching a Twilight Zone episode titled "Changing of the Guard" when I was 6 years old! After watching it, I now know the answer. (See below for details on how you too can see it.)

Have a safe and wonderful summer,

Marjan

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• THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD (TEACHERS)
• MAYBE OUR PARENTS WEREN'T SO WRONG (TEACHERS)
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Queen's Birthday (New Zealand) June 2
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Flag Day June 14
Father’s Day (U.S., Canada, U.K.) June 15
Summer Solstice June 20
St. Jean Baptiste Day (Quebec Canada) June 24

"THE TWILGHT ZONE" (1959)
THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD (1962)

Original Air Date: 1 June 1962 (Season 3, Episode 37)

I was just 6 years old when I first saw the original airing of this episode from the Twilight Zone. (Long before I had any thoughts of becoming a teacher!) For some reason, a couple of years ago I started to think about it. I especially remembered the ending. I did a search, but couldn't find it anywhere. My brother-in-law remembered the name of the episode. I was able to track down the episode in 3 parts hosted on Youtube.com

Professor Ellis Fowler is a teacher who has taught for 51 years. The board of trustees has sent him a letter of retirement. He contemplates his teaching career and comes to the conclusion that everything he has taught was a waste. That is, until he enters "The Twilight Zone".

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MAYBE OUR PARENTS WEREN'T SO WRONG (TEACHERS)

This list is the work of Charles J. Sykes, author of the book Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, Or Add

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping--they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes. Learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Rule No. 12:; Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you're out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing yourself" with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.

Rule No. 13: You are not immortal. (See RuleNo. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven't seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.

Rule No. 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now. You're welcome

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