On Wednesday, during homeroom (my advisees are now seniors) , one of my advisees, Ryan P., was rocking out on his portable CD player. Not an Ipod mind you. We could hear the music blasting out of his earphones. Someone asked what it was and Ryan answers without any hint of irony or humor or whatever says "The new Russian National Anthem". We were all like WHHHAAAAATTTT. It turns out, the ENTIRE CD that Ryan was listening to was anthems of the world. Of course we all wanted to listen to the new Russian Anthem which the majority of my advisees, and I included, was a letdown after the grandeur of the old Soviet Anthem.
Yesterday, Thursday, we all file into the the regularly scheduled 10:10AM all school meeting. After the crowd settles down, the curtains open and we see one boy on drums, one boy playing an electric guitar and two boys performing their self-written Hanukah rap. This rap was up their in quality with Adam Sandler's Haunakah Song that is now a staple around the holidays.
And today, oh Friday December 10th, 2004, will forever be a dark day in music history. It stems from the policy that I have with my students that if they are tardy to class, they can choose to sing a song of the classes choosing to have me not report the tardy. It is always a source of high comedy until it happened to me. Last week, I walked into my infamous/beloved A-Block Geometry class after the bell had rung. Nailed!!! So the students chose my song to be Shania Twain's "Man! I Feel Like a Woman". Well, the CD they brought for me to use as my backup music didn't have that song, I instead I ended up singing "UP!". The mental images you have? Worse.
Yesterday, Thursday, we all file into the the regularly scheduled 10:10AM all school meeting. After the crowd settles down, the curtains open and we see one boy on drums, one boy playing an electric guitar and two boys performing their self-written Hanukah rap. This rap was up their in quality with Adam Sandler's Haunakah Song that is now a staple around the holidays.
And today, oh Friday December 10th, 2004, will forever be a dark day in music history. It stems from the policy that I have with my students that if they are tardy to class, they can choose to sing a song of the classes choosing to have me not report the tardy. It is always a source of high comedy until it happened to me. Last week, I walked into my infamous/beloved A-Block Geometry class after the bell had rung. Nailed!!! So the students chose my song to be Shania Twain's "Man! I Feel Like a Woman". Well, the CD they brought for me to use as my backup music didn't have that song, I instead I ended up singing "UP!". The mental images you have? Worse.
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