Victoria Jackson Parody!

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Thursday February 06, 2014 · 11:30 AM PST

2014/02/06 · 11:30

Victoria Jackson recently announced she is throwing her polka-dot bow into the political arena. Personally, I think comedians should pay her for all of the new-found opportunities for material. One such comedian, Trixie Con Queso, has this to offer:

"Victoria sings!"

Kossacks, I need your help

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Saturday October 13, 2012 · 7:00 PM PDT

2012/10/13 · 19:00

This place has an amazing array of experts in so many fields, and I find myself at a loss as to how I can help a friend who is suffering. I hope to find some ideas I can share with her as she tries to get on her feet, health-wise.

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Saturday February 18, 2012 · 3:04 PM PST

2012/02/18 · 15:04

This diary is for my fellow Washingtonians in our little group....I feel like I am yelling in an empty Safeco Field....

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Wednesday December 14, 2011 · 12:04 PM PST

2011/12/14 · 12:04

A brilliant fellow teacher posted this on her Facebook page, and with her permission, I am posting it here. She posted it on Ron Paul's Facebook page, and it was immediately taken down.......no surprise there...

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Tuesday May 24, 2011 · 6:51 PM PDT

2011/05/24 · 18:51

We began week 4 of testing this week. In the beginning, it was the Measurement of Student Progress, which is the new name for the Washington Assessment of Student Learning. That covered grades 3-6, with some of the older students taking portions of the test online. Then we moved into MAPS test, a generic test of Reading, Language usage and Math, and is a district sponsored test. The kids are catatonic, we are all trying very hard to do our best...and today the Legislature cut my pay.

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Thursday April 07, 2011 · 12:38 PM PDT

2011/04/07 · 12:38

I am involved in an argument on Facebook with a high school acquaintance over the usual...he is a teabagger who is self-employed and thinks all government is bad. ( I have another diary about that for later!)

So, I check my email, and find a copy of a letter to the editor, written by my boyfriend's brother. He lives in Eastern Washington and fights the good fight in a sea of red all around him. His letter made me stand up and cheer.

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Monday February 21, 2011 · 7:18 AM PST

2011/02/21 · 07:18

I fished around in the office supply cupboard looking for pencils. Pencils disappear in my library at an unbelievable rate, and students rarely have their own with them. I made a mental note to stop off at Office Depot on the way home and pick up another package of a thousand bright gold number 2 pencils so my students would have something to write with. Another expense out of my own pocket.

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Cyber-bullying and Responsibility

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Saturday February 05, 2011 · 9:54 AM PST

2011/02/05 · 09:54

It happened again today. Another student came to me in tears. Kids were sending text messages to each other at home in the evenings. This student had been caught making a face by someone with a cell phone camera, and this picture was sent around to just about everyone in the 6th grade by today.

"How can I make them stop!!!?" the student wailed.

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She Twitters in Lingerie!

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Thursday June 10, 2010 · 5:53 AM PDT

2010/06/10 · 05:53

I am donating my diary today on behalf of Amy Storey, who is in the running for a scholarship for Netroots Nation. Why should you cast a vote for this Los Alamos, New Mexico Progressive who doorbells with her young son?
Follow me below to learn why!

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Friday February 26, 2010 · 10:06 AM PST

2010/02/26 · 10:06

Details are still coming in, but a female elementary teacher was shot and killed outside Birney Elementary School in Tacoma Washington, this morning, before school had started or children had arrived.

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Wednesday November 11, 2009 · 4:20 PM PST

2009/11/11 · 16:20

My dad was a very popular teacher. His students loved him, and loved how he pretended to be gruff on the outside. He had a way of explaining math that made it understandable to most, and was willing to work with students who had a hard time with it.

He was an old softy on the inside.

Because of this, he didn't like to talk about his experiences in World War II.

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Saturday September 12, 2009 · 2:08 PM PDT

2009/09/12 · 14:08

I have been teaching for almost 30 years, and I think I have received an apple from a student maybe...twice. I wonder why this stereotype still exists?

It is September, and that means the Honey Crisps are at the markets in Washington State, and throughout the Northwest. I could eat them all day!
Almost as big as your head, and an exquisite combo of sweet and tart, and they snap when you bite into them.
Let's talk apples!

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Victoria Jackson Parody!

Kossacks, I need your help

We have to do something..don't we?

Dear Ron Paul...

Week 5 of testing..and they cut my pay.

I got mine, 'ta hell with you!

You don't need no stinkin' pencils!

Cyber-bullying and Responsibility

She Twitters in Lingerie!

Teacher shot and killed in Tacoma, WA

Happy Veteran's Day, Dad

What's For Dinner..Apple for Teacher Edition