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Teacher, What Do You Make?

chumaokoye — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:37:04 +0000

For my fellow teachers out there!
From A School Principal’s speech at a graduation..

He said “Doctor wants his child to become a doctor………
Engineer wants his child to become engineer……
Businessman wants his ward to become CEO…..
BUT a teacher also wants his child to become one of them..!!!!
Nobody wants to become a teacher BY CHOICE” ….Very sad but that’s the truth…..!!!

The dinner guests were sitting around the table discussing life.
One man, a CEO, decided to explain the problem with education. He argued,
“What’s a kid going to learn from someone who decided his best option in life was to become a teacher?”

To stress his point he said to another guest;
“You’re a teacher, Bonnie. Be honest. What do you make?”

Teacher Bonnie, who had a reputation for honesty and frankness replied,
“You want to know what I make?
(She paused for a second, then began…)

“Well, I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could.

I make a C+ feel like the Congressional Medal of Honor winner.

I make kids sit through 40 minutes of class time when their parents can’t
make them sit for 5 min. without an I Pod, Game Cube or movie rental.

You want to know what I make?
(She paused again and looked at each and every person at the table)

I make kids wonder.

I make them question.

I make them apologize and mean it.

I make them have respect and take responsibility for their actions.

I teach them how to write and then I make them write.
Keyboarding isn’t everything.

I make them read, read, read.

I make them show all their work in math.
They use their God given brain, not the man-made calculator.

I make my students from other countries learn everything they need
to know about English while preserving their unique cultural identity.

I make my classroom a place where all my students feel safe.

Finally, I make them understand that if they use the gifts they
were given, work hard, and follow their hearts, they can succeed in life

( Bonnie paused one last time and then continued.)

Then, when people try to judge me by what I make, with me knowing money isn’t everything, I can hold my head up high and pay no attention because they are ignorant. You want to know what I make?

I MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN ALL YOUR LIVES, EDUCATING KIDS AND PREPARING THEM TO BECOME CEO’s, AND DOCTORS AND ENGINEERS……….

What do you make Mr. CEO?

His jaw dropped; he went silent.

chumaokoye — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:00:43 +0000

Whereas some countries like Japan can offer their citizens 82 years life expectancy, Nigeria offers you 42. To say it mischievously, after 42 you are free to go. Even at that there are so many factors made in Nigeria waiting to take som time off your allocation. Read full article. Click on title on right pane. Or scroll down and switch to fullsite if you are on mobile

chumaokoye — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:00:04 +0000

I have often wondered how leaders manage to keep tabs on so many issues that call daily for their attention. Not everyone can multitask or do so effectively. So I found myself wondering how President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe (this name is the outcome of Dora’s misadventure) Jonathan copes. Read the full article. If you are on a mobile click on full site! Find the pages and select what you would read. Depending on your device, you may have it all on the same spread. Thank you for coming here

Why I Am Backing Governor Amosun to Succeed

chumaokoye — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:47:07 +0000

contrary to what some might think, i am still backing Governor Amosun to succeed. We cannot be flimsy people and call for change and not see it through. but I am not also party to blind followership. Thai is what I did with OBJ. I did not even believe he wanted a third term even in the face of glaring facts. I am done with that type of followership. i want this governor to succeed but I have terms and conditions too.
Click the article on the right plane. don’t forget. this is my page and you came here willingly.

witches…witch hunters…tasce…tasued…beer parlour analysts

chumaokoye — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:53:11 +0000

Last week, the Panels set up by Ogun State government finally arrived the schools. Since then it has been all manners of talk and analysis. people are apprehensive and hiding it well. Some fear, some hope depending on where they are, what they have done, who they have backed and who they are associated with. most speakers are cautious because statements have to be backed up with facts and sources. But not in a beer parlour. You can say what you please and back up with what you know is untrue. Who will investigate? Stupor has its values.
If you do not like to open up your mind, quit now. If you want to go on, find the article on the right pane…between TASCE and TASUED: hunting facts …witches…and beer parlour rantings.
Leave a note so I will know you came by.

Did Dbanj Read Oliver Twist or They Told Him About It?

chumaokoye — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 01:01:26 +0000

now, there is this huge noise about Dbanj’s new video song, I Have a Confession’. NBC has banned the song. Very well, why would they do that? We read that it is because he said something about Omotola Jolade’s ‘yansh’ being bigger. this article does not pretend about anything. it is long and engaging. if you do not want to hear a strong opinion, do not read it. WARNING: MATURE CONTENT. If you want to go ahead, look in the right pane and click on the title. please leave a note if you wish. Many thanks for coming here.

so you didn’t know we are fools

chumaokoye — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:00:33 +0000

since tey tey I don know say we be mugu but I no quick know say you no know. Even if I know, how I wan take tell you wey you no go vex. Ok make I talk am, you are a fool. If you never vex, read the article from the right pane. Thank you say you never slap me o

OGUN GOVERNMENT VS CHRISTIAN MISSIONS

chumaokoye — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:06:20 +0000

Since the day forner speaker Tunji Egbetokun brought down the gavel nullifying the handing over of some secondary schools to their original owners, there has been no let-up in action.If the reasons are genuine or mere witch-hunting, it remains for everyone to speculate now and judge more precisely when this is behind us. This article takes a close look at what has happened in Anglican Girls’ Grammar School, Ijebu Ode. Find the article on the right pane. Please leave a comment so I will know you came here.

…and Ziggy died…

chumaokoye — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 02:02:23 +0000

About 9.45pm on Tuesday July 26, 2011, I saw Ziggy on Channels TV Sportstonite and picked up my phone to tell him. His number was switched off. What I did not know was that the boy I was calling was in the State Hospital Mortuary, handcuffs joining his dead hands. Felled by police bullets: justly or unjustly…the debate has not ceased. Click on the the article on the right pane. please leave a message so I will know you came by my crib.

the trouble with Gov Amosun’s half-pay regime

chumaokoye — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:04:20 +0000

The trouble with Amosun’s half salaries
Our elders say ‘you don’t play the monkey’s tricks on the bush pidgin’. Let me without loads of talking say why half salaries don’t work.
Like government before now, this government is soliciting and receiving the services of political manipulators who specialize is swinging public opinion. So, easily everyone would say OGD did not pay at all but SIA is paying something, even if it is half. Anyone would say, ‘is it not better?’ but it is a Greek gift and we will roast for it. Why? Follow me.
1. OGD did not manipulate. He even promoted people and said, ‘I owe you this exact amount’. This government has come and has paid half of salaries…BUT WHICH SALARY SCALE? He has taken us back to the FORMER salary scale. Please note that TASUED staff have even received arrears of salaries following the migration from that old salary scale he took us back to. Will TASUED staff refund or will the government upgrade TASCE staff?
2. The government has no interest in collective bargaining. As it stands, you will not find a worker who can tell you specifically, ‘this is the blueprint the government is following’. So speculations are rife; and every day, these unsettle people.
3. There is zero information of what would happen to the arrears that have piled up. All we hear is that the present government did not accumulate it. I don’t have to bother to puncture that argument. It was punctured at inception.
4. The government is trying to make beggars of workers, so that when they get any money at all from the government, gratitude would overwhelm reason. Gradually they are making an anomaly to become an acceptable pattern. Rather than pay what they owe in a month, they reduce to a lower scale and use one month’s pay to service two months. And they expect applause. Worse still, nobody would say for how long this is going to persist. With labour insisting that minimum wage be implemented from August, what will happen? If we have gratefully accepted half pay, where is the impetus to ask for increase?
5. The current situation of half pay is made more attractive by a dangerous fraud. Ogun government introduced a tax regime of 10% of GROSS. This government has said nothing about rectifying that. They are giving tertiary institution workers half pay and without deductions for tax and co-operatives. Many workers are collecting far more that they should after deductions. Poverty is not allowing them remit their deductions to the appropriate co-operative societies. When the deductions are eventually required of them, they will find that what they have as balance of their pay would not service their deductions. They would become more slaves than they were before they received the blessing of half-salaries.
So when someone tells you that getting half is better than getting nothing. The one needs to be told that workers and government must meet each other half-way down the road. The government is not the boss. They are the servants of the people and not to tell the people what you are doing with their lives is manipulation and it is criminal.
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