I'm amazed at people

People have blown my mind lately with their intolerance and stupidity.

    I know this seems like it will be negative, but few people lately have amazed me with their ignorance, prejudice, and lack of intelligence.
    I have been observing at a middle school for school, and the teacher I was with went out of town. She set up other teachers for me to observe, so I could complete some of my days. I was excited to see how other teachers taught, but then I observed something that broke my heart. One of the two teachers I kept switching between had an inclusion class I was going to watch. I am in a special learners class, so being able to see how a different teacher and special ed aid interacted would be helpful for an assignment for my class. Well that quickly changed once I saw her lack of willingness to help and teach her students. I realize I am not in that class everyday, but teachers must persue their students and be dedicated. That particular teacher also said that she wishes "those" (special education students) people were seperated from the "normal" students. I didn't know what to do or say. I was shocked someone had that menatlity, especially someone who works with children everyday.
       I was crushed someone would say that about students. They are children, who need extra support. Why wouldn't you want to put forth that extra effort to help others. This woman also said she would make her kid take honors classes to be seperate from those kinds of kids. I am not a special education major and I don't know much about it. Even though I am neither of those things, I care about people and want all children to succeed the best they can.

     

Goals for 2014

I realize people set resolutions for the new year that they tend to forget and leave in the dust. I want to set some personal goals, because without setting them I won't have much inspiration to do them.

1) Read at least 25 books. I know that may not sound like a lot, but I want to keep building in this number each year and I feel like I can achieve this. I will be posting updates about my progress with books through out the year. My first one is going to be A Constelation of 

That I am reading with my friend Chandni. I feel like having a partner with reading will help me be more accountable. There are so many books and so little time, so I need to make some sort of dent in the literary world. Plus I have a degree in English and now I'm pursuing education, I feel like I need to be well versed in books so I am able to recommend books to students. 

2) Make A's and B's. I am back in school at Athens State University for education. I am currently working full time and took 15 hours in the fall. I thought I was going to make all A's, but no one ever said I was good at math. I didn't realize my grades were weighted and was calculating the wrong grades. I ended up with all B's and one A. I cried, a lot. But then I realized B's are still good. I am a C student, so for me to not get one is amazing. 

3) Be more outgoing. This is really hard for me. I am an introvert, almost overly-introvert. I love being by myself. I am perfectly happy staying home, watching Netflix, reading, or anything else of that nature. I want to make more of an effort to be around people, even though I hate doing that too often. I want to also make more friends, which is very hard for me since I don't go outside of my comfort zone that much.
4) Write more! I fell in love with writing at UNA, and want to put more effort into it.

I know these goals aren't revolutionary, but they are steps to making me a happier person. I am going to school and working full-time, it is hard to have goals and achieve them so I am starting with little ones.