But I had to share this with you.
An assignment has come across my desk from a colleague (and I use the term loosely.) This week, New Jersey schools are administering the Dreaded State Test to juniors, the one that the Bushies use to determine which schools pass or fail the No Child Left Behind disaster, and which determines whether or not kids can graduate from a New Jersey high school.
As per usual, my school has made this a scheduling nightmare of re-arranged classes, teachers assigned to proctor who have non-junior classes that period, and so on.
The displaced persons, aka, the kids who aren�t juniors and there are no teachers in their classrooms so they have no place to go, come to the library. Surprise. They are to be sent to me with their names on a list, and legitimate work to do. The teachers send me the list of names (hohoho, very few of them actually do that) and give the assignment to the kids.
Except for this one. This is a phys. ed. teacher noted for her insane -- and I mean insane -- attention to bizarre detail. She gives 100 question written tests on volleyball, or for that matter, team handball, which is a made-up school game anyway. She has no perspective. She is not nice to kids. I didn't permit either of my kids to be in her class, no matter what it did to their schedule, and for one of them, it screwed up 11th grade history. This woman is a nutcase.
(And this is not, I might add, the norm here. The rest of our phys. ed. teachers are great. Serious about what they do, which is fine, but normal people.)
And so I just received this assignment, for me to hand over to one kid who has to be here for one period in the morning for the next two days. This is a kid who�s missing his health class for two days. BTW, he�s also a senior making up junior health, which means he isn�t the brightest bulb on the tree, or else he�s ... how shall we say, disaffected. This is what she wants him to do:
Find a definition for the following terms. Write the definition and copy the information from the source. Create acrossword puzzle using these terms. (She gives here the URL of a website that you can use to create crossword puzzles.)
Across
- Ovaries
- Fallopian tube
- Vagina
- Follicles
- Oogenesis
- Graafian follicle
- Ova
- Fimbria
- Corpus luteum
Down
- Fimbria
- Cilia
- Uterus
- Cervix
- Labia majora
- Labia minora
- Hymen
- Ovulation
- Menstruation
- Clitoris
I can�t wait to see his face when I hand him this tomorrow morning. Now that's sex education.
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