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Camp Point Central Teacher’s Banquet, May 20. 1996

David Bummy Teen Prostitution..selling yourself.

First...a word of the Illinois State Board of Education: S.I.P....6 stages of accepting a fatal disease..

  1. Shock 2)Anger
  2. Barter
  3. Rationalization
  4. Acceptance
  5. Hope...Hope that they’ll change they’ll so busy changing their minds that they’ll leave us alone.

Stress.... I’ve heard opening day speakers talk about relieving teacher stress. Does little good. Before we can think about it, they open the doors and let kids into the school. Instead, this comes at the end of the school year. Take the summer to think about it.

Best speakers say things you alrady know....

  1. DON’T REHASH THE NEGATIVE

Our teacher’s lounge For once, don’t get if off your chest Teacher I know..kids drive her crazy.. ..meet her in IGA...guess what she talks about... Teachers: worst in the world about taking their job home . That’s a compliment...and a curse.

Corrie Ten Boom “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorry, It empties today of its strength.”

  1. Realize that no matter what factors determine your day, you are the Main Factor.. J. Stephens...taught, sold, taught. whistles and sings... Mom: Alcatraz
  1. If life’s bumming you out, chances are you aren’t giving enough of yourself. Self-centeredness : depression. Becky...funeral... Carl Menninger JHS girl: CFS

A. Sweitzer: “The only ones among you who will be truely happy as those who will have sought and found out how to serve.”

  1. Collect Interesting and enthusiastic people around you as you would rare coins or antiques. Marie...salt and pepper shakers.

Friendships don’t have to simply be things that happen...They can be created... Nuture friends who encourage you. Tony Compello “Five years from now you’ll be pretty much the same as you are now except for two things: The books you’ve read and the people you’ve met.

  1. Don’t get so busy with the important things in your life that you forget the important things in your life. James Dobson..monopoly Dad...hay ...rain.... “When we forget ourselves, we usually do something that everyone else remembers.”
  1. Choose carefully whom you try to please. Quest...Inner-Outer Self

HINEY THE MULE

  1. Lighten up.... Jim Kern...MRS. BROWN

Post ..Jalepeno pepper

Reg....I’m gonna ‘cause some trouble!

I sent this plan to the State....NEW SIP..No reply.

--Minus 10 points if your athletic facility is at least 40 times bigger than your special ed room --tour classes..2 points for every smile seen in class... --minus 10 points for every hour paperwork takes away from teaching time. --deduct 20 points if school still serves peanut better sandwiches with chili... no reason but it makes as much sense as the rest of the SIP --School earns 100 points for every teacher who’s been there for over 10 years...says something about the school --30 points for each athlete who’s been coached to think they had a good time playing a game..even when they lost. 60 points for every coach who agrees. --double school’s points for every parent who comes to the school for anything other than a ballgame. --1000 points for every teacher given the boot because they couldn’t teach.

PHYSCIAL CHECKUP... Illinois Power

LIGHTEN UP.... ....go barefoot more often ....skip social studies some day and pull taffy. ...eat nothing but ice cream for a whole day. ...wear underwear backwards...will break into uncontrollable giggles for no reason every time you think about it. ....walk up to biggest grouch in your school and say “I just want you to know that I feel great!” It’ll throw them off all day. ...do some serious coloring ....get the preacher to serve pizza at thenext communion. ...start teaching to succeed instead of living in fear of failing... ...break the dress code occasionally. Not the school’s, but your own personal dress code.... ...if you have an adminstrator who’s not afraid of the Big Bad State Board, hug him .....McDonnald’s “Have a nice Day” Why? ....Think about your favorite and best teacher...Did he or she have joy?

3 things in life are real...WHEN YOU’RE BORN, WHEN YOU DIE WHEN YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN A CHILD’S LIFE.. in everything else...LIGHTEN UP.

  1. Don’t take yourself too seriously.. chances are, no one else does.

Chillochothe...”probably dead”

Church lady...music at her funeral.

Jeff W...Free Spirit..Robbed and tied.

Travel LIghter...Your anxieties? Look in your purse or pocket or billfold...ME: comb.

Roger Ebert. 9. If you have faith, use it. For every minute you spend worrying about your kids, spend a minute praying my them.

My story...........

Only another teacher can possibly know how important your job is. This teacher is so proud of you. This teacher is so desperately concerned about what you do and how you feel about it.

Please....please, drop the chains of stress and worry that you hang around your neck. No one in your entire community makes a greater impact on our future. Keep it up. Please. Please.

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