Day Fifty

For those of you just tuning in, "This Guy is Falling" follows the educational exploits of Mr. Birds-Eye, a high school teacher in his third year of teaching, traditionally the make or break year in the profession. Fearing that he has finally reached his wits end, Birds-Eye decides to write a blog in hopes that he can reboot his year by focusing on the positives of the profession.

And I'm happy to report that it's been working.

Tomorrow my students have a vocabulary test. One of the words is...


Cascade - 1. a small, steep waterfall. 2. Anything suggesting this, as a shower of sparks.


Moving on...


So we continued discussing homosexuality today, tying it into the prejudice that occurs in Black Boy.


INT. CLASSROOM - DAY


Teacher - Why are teenaged boys so afraid of homosexuality?


Student #1 - They don't want to be seen as an outsider?


Teacher - Good. What are some ways that teenaged boys are paranoid about being viewed as a homosexual?


Student #2 - Oh! They won't sit next to each other in the movies. They have a space between them!


Student #3 - Yeah, and they won't pee next to each other in the bathroom!


Teacher - Why?


A Boy RAISES his hand.


Teacher - Yes?


Boy - They don't want to get wet?


The CLASS LAUGHS!


Student #1 - Oooh! They don't want to get wet with the cascade!


END SCENE


And that in a nutshell is why I still like teaching.


Signing off.


Birds-Eye