Student writing.

• Many public schools hire under-qualified and incapable teachers practically off the street to teach their students. In the senate and governor race, many candidates are propising that no gays or unwed mothers be allowed to teach children because they will poison their minds. This proposition leaves only desperate and weird people to teach children.

• Teen pregnancy can also be caused by children following the lead of their parents. If a teen's mother or father is blatantly having sex every night, then the teen will most likely think it is okay.

Last week's question of the week. (While students are researching for persuasive papers.)

Um, Ms. Prokott, can you tell me what fecal matter is?

You bet I can!

Happy Monday.

In first block today, a student came up to me during work time and stuck his foot out and stamped it a little, like an aggravated horse. His white tennis shoe was covered in brown and green shit, along the side, on the front, into the laces.

I have to go to the nurse, he said, because I just realized that I stepped in some dog poop in my yard before school.