School Materials
My principal is away, and I took the opportunity to search around the office to see the types of materials that are at the school’s disposal. Shockingly, a lot more than I previously imagined. I have teachers persistently complaining that their schools are in such poor shape due to lack of materials. Yet, hidden in odd corners, with thick layers of dust, in various states of disintegration, is the following inventory:
A complete science kit with enough materials to have a small lab if teachers so desired. It has more materials in it than in any elementary school I ever spent time at in the states. Currently stored in a closet with paper cups and other various oversights.
Amazing maps and a globe. If these were posted in classrooms as opposed to collecting dust in the office maybe people would stop asking me if I drove here from America.
Dozens of teacher guides with scripted lesson plans for cooperative learning.
Hundreds of books including: Individual books on influential South African leaders, “Bonsai for Everyone,” “My Little Pony,” “Astrological Signs,” “They came and ate us” (a book about some B movie made God knows when), and my personal favorite: “What Every Boy Should Know” by Dr Jan van Elfen circa 1983 which I will now take a brief moment to quote from as I found her insight to be so very educational (chapters are titled with such names as “Hello Stranger” “Becoming a man is fun” “A New Look at Eve”):
“Too many sweets will give you a stomach-ache; too much secret playing with yourself will give you a distaste of yourself. If you want to amuse yourself in a childish way, play with toy cars rather than yourself.”
“And that is the first snag. If you regularly have sex with a girl, she will come to love you- that just happens to be in the nature of girls.”
“A girl who takes such precautions is certainly an old hand at it…probably a girl about town…second-hand.”
“A homosexual is a man or woman who showed normal physical ripening in adolescence but is retarded in his or her sexual awakening. [] In most cases homosexuality is not due to an aberration of birth or a hormonal abnormality, but to faulty education and treatment in the years of growth.”
What a waste all these materials are going to, specifically Dr Jan van Elfen’s inspirational and eye awakening information into the male development. It is time to make a teacher resource room and educate teachers how to use it.
P.S. The children are outside sliding down the giant boulder on pieces of wood. It looks like sledding or a slide. They are having the time of their lives. The problem is there is no sand or snow to break the fall. Inevitably this will end in injury…oh well they’re having fun I’m not going to stop it :)
A complete science kit with enough materials to have a small lab if teachers so desired. It has more materials in it than in any elementary school I ever spent time at in the states. Currently stored in a closet with paper cups and other various oversights.
Amazing maps and a globe. If these were posted in classrooms as opposed to collecting dust in the office maybe people would stop asking me if I drove here from America.
Dozens of teacher guides with scripted lesson plans for cooperative learning.
Hundreds of books including: Individual books on influential South African leaders, “Bonsai for Everyone,” “My Little Pony,” “Astrological Signs,” “They came and ate us” (a book about some B movie made God knows when), and my personal favorite: “What Every Boy Should Know” by Dr Jan van Elfen circa 1983 which I will now take a brief moment to quote from as I found her insight to be so very educational (chapters are titled with such names as “Hello Stranger” “Becoming a man is fun” “A New Look at Eve”):
“Too many sweets will give you a stomach-ache; too much secret playing with yourself will give you a distaste of yourself. If you want to amuse yourself in a childish way, play with toy cars rather than yourself.”
“And that is the first snag. If you regularly have sex with a girl, she will come to love you- that just happens to be in the nature of girls.”
“A girl who takes such precautions is certainly an old hand at it…probably a girl about town…second-hand.”
“A homosexual is a man or woman who showed normal physical ripening in adolescence but is retarded in his or her sexual awakening. [] In most cases homosexuality is not due to an aberration of birth or a hormonal abnormality, but to faulty education and treatment in the years of growth.”
What a waste all these materials are going to, specifically Dr Jan van Elfen’s inspirational and eye awakening information into the male development. It is time to make a teacher resource room and educate teachers how to use it.
P.S. The children are outside sliding down the giant boulder on pieces of wood. It looks like sledding or a slide. They are having the time of their lives. The problem is there is no sand or snow to break the fall. Inevitably this will end in injury…oh well they’re having fun I’m not going to stop it :)
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