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Over the weekend, I finally had a chance to read a book that I'd bought a while back, Learn Me Gooder by John Pearson. This is the sequel of his popular book Learn Me Good and I knew that if it was even half as entertaining as the original, it would be well worth my time. In Learn Me Gooder, we rejoin Jack Woodson six years later in his teaching career. Jack is still chronicling the daily wackiness and general hi-jinks of his classroom to his buddies back at Heat Pump Limited. Of course, he has a whole new crew with different personalities and problems, but the same familiar nemesis of apathy, general cluelessness, impishness and the dreaded TAKS (soon to be replaced by its steroid-pumped big brother STAAR). And in this installment, Woodson even gets a leading lady...
I literally laughed out loud at some of the outlandish situations Woodson describes to his buddy, Bommerson. In one situation, he describes their "terrorist/ unknown assailant drill" which requires them to slide out a green sheet of paper if everyone in the room is ok and red if there is a problem in the room. Woodson ponders exactly who these code papers benefit more, admins or the unknown assailant, and if they should subtly slide the green paper back in if they hear the assailant breaking down doors? In other situations, Woodson describes his students reactions to him as their teacher: he hands out gum and they respond as though he'd parachuted into the classroom handing out bags of money, he speaks to them and they stare blankly, but if he speaks to another teacher, he gets their undivided attention (I've experienced this same phenomena: I speak to my students in Spanish and they're trying to sleep, text or do other homework. I speak to one of the other Spanish teachers in Spanish in front of them and they're staring us down, breaking out their notes and dictionaries, and coaching each other through the conversation. "I heard something about a test!") Nevertheless, through the entire book, you can feel Woodson's (Pearson's) true affection for his students.
I particularly like Pearson's books because he teaches for the district that I attended as a student and student taught in. I'm familiar with a lot of the lunacy in the district. But even if you aren't familiar with his specific district, as teachers, we all have "that kid". The kid that makes you laugh, cry, angry and deliriously happy (sometimes all at the same time). Pearson, like most teachers, tries not to take it personally and to always have an optimistic spirit that can see the humor in any given situation. Luckily, for the rest of us, Pearson took the time to write down and share his students' exploits.
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