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Re: Axe Stickers - fullmetal - 07-10-2013

I'm fairly neutral on the issue, but I like that they're a low-barrier way to get recognition to players that might not get recognition.  If the players like 'em, then keep 'em.  I like the half-helmet approach, which gives you one clean side and one intimidating side.

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Re: Axe Stickers - oman - 07-11-2013

(07-10-2013, 03:55 PM)TreeWeird link Wrote:I hate helmet stickers.
My middle school football team had helmet stickers.
I was a terrible player.
Middle school was hard enough without sitting on the bench with no bloody helmet stickers.

I hate helmet stickers.

Seeing Stanford win is good therapy, though.

Most of us do the normal thing and erase all vestiges of middle school from our memory. 

Well, other than slow dancing with Darla to Santana's Europa, but everything else...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIusePfLhd0

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Re: Axe Stickers - CowboyIndian - 07-11-2013

(07-11-2013, 10:15 AM)oman link Wrote:Well, other than slow dancing with Darla to Santana's Europa, but everything else...

Darla? Jeezus, how old are you?

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Re: Axe Stickers - oman - 07-11-2013

(07-11-2013, 11:16 AM)CowboyIndian link Wrote:Darla? Jeezus, how old are you?

Says the guy who apparently knows the names of the little rascals/our gang....

In any case, I am precisely the age where I would have slow danced to Europa in middle school.

And listened to Frampton (how the hell does he make that sound) Comes Alive in the back seat of my brother's Cutlass Supreme, getting nervous about high school.

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Let me get this straight - Redrum - 07-11-2013

There you were..." in the back seat of my brother's Cutlass Supreme, getting nervous about high school."

Of all the things to be nervous about while in the back seat of a big ol' American car, being nervous about high school ain't it, son.

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Re: Axe Stickers - Bruce Wang - 07-11-2013

One of my favorite pieces of art at Stanford is the "Last Supper of Chicano Heroes" which features a very cool Carlos Santana at the end of the table.  (My favorite piece of art at Stanford is the Burghers of Calais).

One of my most distinctive memories at Stanford was seeing one of the campus bands perform a particularly good rendition of Santana's Black Magic Woman at a fraternity party.  I wish I could remember their name, but I never heard about them performing again.  I thought they were better than the dominant band on campus at the time, Platypus Rex, and those guys were GOOD.

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Re: Axe Stickers - oman - 07-11-2013

Okay, pensive. 

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Re: Axe Stickers - oman - 07-11-2013

(07-11-2013, 01:22 PM)Publius link Wrote:One of my favorite pieces of art at Stanford is the "Last Supper of Chicano Heroes" which features a very cool Carlos Santana at the end of the table. 

I think you are mixing him up with Frida Kahlo.

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Re: Let me get this straight - JohnR34231 - 07-11-2013

(07-11-2013, 01:08 PM)Redrum link Wrote:There you were..." in the back seat of my brother's Cutlass Supreme, getting nervous about high school."

Of all the things to be nervous about while in the back seat of a big ol' American car, being nervous about high school ain't it, son.

Anyone remember Country Porn and their smash hit (Doing you-know-what) in the back of a '55 Ford?

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Re: Axe Stickers - Bruce Wang - 07-11-2013

While Frida Kahlo sported an impressive mustache, I would not confuse her with Santana because he does not have an unibrow.  My memory must be faulty as I remember him at the end of the table and not behind Che Guevara.

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Re: Axe Stickers - Hank 91 - 07-11-2013

(07-11-2013, 10:15 AM)oman link Wrote:Most of us do the normal thing and erase all vestiges of middle school from our memory. 

But others of us chose to go back to middle school as a career, and have loved every minute!

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Re: Axe Stickers - Spiny_Norman - 07-11-2013

(07-11-2013, 03:20 PM)Hank 91 link Wrote:[quote author=oman link=topic=8083.msg64210#msg64210 date=1373562950]


Most of us do the normal thing and erase all vestiges of middle school from our memory. 

But others of us chose to go back to middle school as a career, and have loved every minute!
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Hank, do you give helmet stickers to your students? 

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Re: Axe Stickers - Hank 91 - 07-11-2013

(07-11-2013, 06:12 PM)Spiny_Norman link Wrote:Hank, do you give helmet stickers to your students?

Wow -- that's an excellent idea, and I might even be able to get away with Axes. Believe it or not, I teach at Stanford Middle School (named after Leland, Sr., not Jr.). I love my school for many reasons, but here's one of the coolest things about it. Our district has a dress code, and if students choose to wear sweatshirts they must be solid white or red -- unless it's a Stanford sweatshirt. This means that every day there are kids wearing Stanford gear that could've come right out of the Stanford Bookstore. Sadly, there are no C al alums on staff. It would give me a warm feeling in my heart to know that a C al alum was staring out at a classroom full of Stanford sweatshirts...

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Re: Axe Stickers - fullmetal - 07-12-2013

That.  Is.  Awesome.

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Re: Axe Stickers - Bruce Wang - 07-12-2013

That's it.  I'm moving to Long Beach when the kid is ready for middle school.

Hank, when your students misbehave, you should make them stand in the corner and wear an Oregon cap.

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Re: Axe Stickers - FarmBoy - 07-12-2013

You may not have any Ca.l alums on staff, but I don't doubt there are GoldenBearParents sending the light of their lives to school wearing red or white. Although, perhaps many of them are secretly proud that their child is doing that which they could not: attend Stanford.

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Re: Axe Stickers - Hank 91 - 07-12-2013

(07-12-2013, 05:48 AM)Publius link Wrote:That's it.  I'm moving to Long Beach when the kid is ready for middle school.

Hank, when your students misbehave, you should make them stand in the corner and wear an Oregon cap.

Of course, then I'd be punishing myself as well, just having to look at it.

Funny story. There was a kid in my class last year who was a brobdingnagian Oregon fan, but I didn't find this out until after football season. (For some reason, he didn't bring it up after the Stanford-Oregon game. Go figure.) Anyway, we had a lot of good-natured banter over the last six months of the year, always pointing towards the 2013 matchup. This will give me a whole extra layer of tension during that game. Hell hath no fury like a twelve-year-old boy who gets to taunt his teacher.

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Re: Axe Stickers - GoodGrief - 07-12-2013

(07-11-2013, 03:20 PM)Hank 91 link Wrote:But others of us chose to go back to middle school as a career, and have loved every minute!

Thanks for that, Hank 91. I've always known that I was born to be high school teacher, but I worry that the system and student/parent apathy would beat me down like it does to many teachers. It's inspiring to know that there are some who still really love it.

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Re: Axe Stickers - oman - 07-12-2013

I too feel I was born to be a high school teacher.  Both of my parents were, and when we were debating what high school we were thinking of sending out kids to, and I walked into the big suburban public high school, I just had such a sense of being in the right place. 

But I can't think of anything that feels further away than a nice comfortable high school than middle school.  Maybe I was just a mess back then, but to this day I pretty get a kick out of all the high school age kids I meet, and just want the middle school kids to go hide themselves away until they grow up just a tad.

Kudos for being a middle school teacher.  Mine were pretty important to me. 

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Re: Axe Stickers - Hank 91 - 07-12-2013

The idea of teaching didn't occur to me until my senior year of college, and back then the idea was to teach high school. I loved the thought of teaching AP English to seniors, but when the district hired me (three months after graduation and without a single teacher ed course to my name), the opening was in middle school, and I haven't looked back. I'm sure I'd love high school, but I simply love middle school kids too much to leave. People are always shocked by that -- teachers and non-teachers alike -- because of what we all know about middle schoolers. But here's what I always tell people -- I get my kids at their absolute best. They don't roll their eyes, they don't answer questions with blank stares, they don't mumble things under their breath, they don't operate under the idea that I couldn't possibly understand anything that they're going through. (My own daughter, recently turned 13, does all those things.) My students, however, are happy, thoughtful, and eager to please. It truly is my dream job.

And did I mention summer vacation?

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