Ever since I linked my blog to my Myspace blog, I seem to get more and more traffic every time I post. There is no writing a bulletin, or sending messages to read my site for my newest blog entry, it is all right there in my Myspace blog, that people can come across naturally just by going to my profile. I think it is a great way to get people coming back to my profile and my site, I just wish I had thought about it before when I had the account with over 12000 friends, but if I don’t get deleted then I might have that many soon, afterall it has been only a few weeks and I am approaching 3000.

I have been thinking of other ways to promote my site, I have been thinking about cross posting it to MyYearBook, MyJokeCafe when it is open for registration, and maybe even Xpeeps, but I am not sure. I know that I need something promote it well. I have been looking into Network Solutions for their internet marketing services, which I may end up doing if I can start earning enough revenue from my ads, and other private advertisers. While I think that may be a way off, it also might not be as far off as I think, or at least I hope it isn’t, this way I can have a good amount of traffic, and then expand with new traffic, and maybe then I can concentrate more on this website, while still keeping my clients, just working less hours for them.

Sarah Palin spoke tonight in her acceptance speech for the Republican Party’s nomination for Vice President. She spoke a lot about her family and how proud she was of all of them, she spoke about how she has more experience compared to er party’s rival, Senator Obama. She mentioned one key thing, one thing that makes her different than any other candidate, in either the Presidential or the Vice Presidential nominee, and that is that she would be an advocate for children who have disabilities.

Having a special needs advocate in office for children is good in theory, but we must not forget that there are millions of children who go undiagnosed with disabilities every year. I was in middle school before I was diagnosed with ADD and dyslexia, which some would say is too long to go to school without anyone noticing. Now I went to many different high schools. I started out in St Mary’s (Cardinal Mccaricks) then I went to Sayreville War Memorial High School. From there I went on to NJ Regional Day School, and finally Collier High School. After high school I went to Brookdale Community College and finally Delaware Technical and Community College. Needless to say, I went to a lot of different schools. None of the schools were alike in anyway.

In high school, the teachers will teach you something one way, and depending on how long they have been teaching, they will not even try explaining it another way. Why? Because the majority of the kids learned it that way and if you don’t then you have the problem. I guess a percentage is fine for them. I’ve long thought about becoming a teacher, the problem with that is there are so many different rules you need to follow. The students need to learn X amount of things by the end of the semester, and by that time, they are mainly studying for the finals and won’t remember anything after it is over.

I remember one of my teachers, a US history teacher who was leaving after the school year to return to Colorado, made us do some interesting assignments. One of them was a PowerPoint presentation representing different colonies. The requirements were that you used interesting graphics, sound effects and a colorful background, this way he wouldn’t be bored and neither would anyone else. He then wrote up the test for the 13 colonies based on our presentations. One of the questions was that we had to match up who gave the presentation to that state.

If I were to be a teacher, I would let him, and the rest of my teachers who wouldn’t conform guide me. Of course doing so would probably get my teaching license revoked. Granted I could probably do that in a special ed environment, but nonetheless I believe that kids, who are perfectly normal by today’s standards, need to have their minds stimulated in alternative ways. What good is it if you make them learn by the book, for the book?

Any teacher can get up there and lecture from the book, maybe even give a PowerPoint presentation from the book, but if that is the case then why be a teacher, when the book obviously has the answers? Teachers should be there to stimulate and educate. To go beyond the book, to make learning come alive, not to make learning a dull experience.

I started this out by saying that Sarah Palin would be an advocate for disabled children. While I applaud her for that, I do not believe that disabled children, should get any better an education than students in a “normal classroom environment”. Why can’t all students do those kinds of fun presentations? If you want to teach about cameras, then why not make a giant camera obscura that you can climb into? If you want to teach about weight distribution, then why not have the students make bed of nails? Reading about it and doing it are completely different things, I believe that teachers are rushed, which makes the drop out rate in this country unbelievably high.

What is the point of the Regions test, if the only thing the students learned was from a book instead of experience? Knowing Shakespeare is great, but only reading Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet because you are short on time is ridiculous. Find a different way to teach it, show the movie, go to Shakespeare in the park, put on a school play all your own, the point is teachers, find a way to make learning fun and don’t be the kind of teacher who you had in high school.

There is an old saying that the best way to learn something is to teach, if that is the case then maybe openning up the way you teach your students could help you learn a thing or two about yourself. Nine months may seem like a long time to the high school class you have, but if you think about it, it is only a short time in their lives, one that which will be gone just as soon as it had started, you may remember some of your students, but if you don’t step up as a teacher, then what is the chances that they will remember you years down the road? Maybe by teaching things that aren’t traditional you will teach them not to be conventional, maybe you will teach them not to conform, that standing out is okay and that being your own person will help you reach far greater happiness than if you conform to what people think you should be. You will only be in their lives for a moment, after that moment you can fade away, or you can stand out. The choice is yours.

Krissy is going to need a lot of dental work. She didn’t go to work twice last week because her cheek was the size of a golf ball and she was in an enormous amount of pain. I can’t blame her, but with the way things are with the economy if she looses this job, it might be months before she gets another one. If the economy was better then it wouldn’t be such a big deal, in fact next year at this time, we may have free health care and dental might be included in that so we won’t have these issues, but right now we are in a bad position.

We have been trying to figure out how to pay for her dental visits, and as much as I don’t want to, we might have to go ahead and consolidate debt by taking a large loan, paying off what we owe then use the rest to pay itself back for a while and get her teeth fixed. It might even work out where less is going out each month because of a lower interest rate, but I am not overly concerned with that right now, the most important thing is getting everything in line to be able to afford the dentist.