Comments on: Trick or Trick /2007/trick-or-trick/ less helpful Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:01:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Jennifer /2007/trick-or-trick/#comment-30093 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:50:37 +0000 /?p=464#comment-30093 I taught at a Jewish school one year—no Halloween, but then Purim’s a bitch. At my TFA school in Houston, we got slammed 2 days in a row: Halloween AND Day of the Dead. So, take heart in the fact that it’s only one day a year.

]]> By: Angie /2007/trick-or-trick/#comment-29995 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:52:29 +0000 /?p=464#comment-29995 Why not take lemons and make lemonades? Make graphs based on most popular candy or types of Halloween costumes. Or something like that. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em and make ’em learn something.

]]> By: Per /2007/trick-or-trick/#comment-29915 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:18:29 +0000 /?p=464#comment-29915 Come to Sweden. Halloween exist nowdays (didnt 20 years ago) but not in a way that effects school.

You might be supprised to lose Dec 13 to Lucia thought…

/Per

]]> By: Ben Bleckley /2007/trick-or-trick/#comment-29914 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:09:35 +0000 /?p=464#comment-29914 I’m a Peace Corps Volunteer teaching in South Africa, and they don’t have Halloween here. Wages are even lower than in the United States, but if you can handle that, welcome home.

]]> By: A. Mercer /2007/trick-or-trick/#comment-29903 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:39:54 +0000 /?p=464#comment-29903 BTW, I LOATHE all candy holidays. I won’t say the last two periods of my day were hellish, but the weren’t my most enjoyable, let’s put it that way. One teacher had the nerve to say, “Oh by the way, we passed out candy before this,” Yeah, thanks a million! I then had the stupidity to show fourth graders a video on economics. It’s a good thing I really like that guy.

]]> By: A. Mercer /2007/trick-or-trick/#comment-29900 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:36:36 +0000 /?p=464#comment-29900 Ya know, my son’s district does a staff development day (no school for kids, no kids for teachers to teach) in October-ish. I really admired them the year they had it the day after Halloween.

Through my mind flitted the thought, “Lucky stiffs, I wish I have thought of that!”

]]> By: dan /2007/trick-or-trick/#comment-29881 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:59:52 +0000 /?p=464#comment-29881 Didn’t realize there were so many Halloween fans in the crowd.

Well, for whatever it’s worth, my appeal ain’t on moral grounds. I’m not particularly horrified by what they will or won’t wear, it just bugs me I can’t get anything done. That’s all.

And even that annoyance isn’t so large as long I cram it into the brimming jar on my shelf labeled What I Should Expect From My Job.

]]> By: Sarah /2007/trick-or-trick/#comment-29868 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:35:49 +0000 /?p=464#comment-29868 My housemate reports that when she was in Germany the teachers hated Halloween, complained it was too American. Maybe we just have it the worst?

Or you could move to an area where the local religion doesn’t celebrate the holiday. When I was in high school, my family couldn’t put out a pumpkin because it would upset people too much.

]]> By: Damian Bariexca /2007/trick-or-trick/#comment-29866 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:21:41 +0000 /?p=464#comment-29866 @Ken Well, they ARE middle schoolers. It’s not like they’re little kids anymore.

]]> By: ken /2007/trick-or-trick/#comment-29863 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:04:12 +0000 /?p=464#comment-29863 I’m sorry, did I hear the word ‘whores’?

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