This is a heartfelt Thank You to all of you. We appreciate your efforts to get together a petition to keep our class going, but for now we would like you to let things happen as they were intended to happen. We cannot support a petition, although deeply flattered, because some of our colleagues will lose jobs and all we will lose is our class.
You have been taught the most valuable lesson we can teach...Stand in the face of TRUE injustice . We cannot put any of you in harms way just to make a point no matter how disappointed we are with our circumstance.
Every single one of you holds the deepest place within our hearts and we will make the next three months the most memorable time we have ever had in room 211.
Thank You,
Mr. G and Ms. Carr
10 comments:
mr. g and ms. carr i want to thank you for the best 8th grade year a student could have i mean this with all my heart i want to wake up and come to school i want to get to school to come to your guys' class. but i really feel that you both need a thank you for teaching me to stand up and to believe that our voices should be heard even though we are only kids. this class makes my day without it my day would just be a regular old day wen i walk into your classroom my day lightens up and i kow i have nothing to worry about because if i wanted i can share it in that class kowing it wont go anywhere. but mainly wat im saying is i love you both and thank you both for the best year ive had in school.
love, austin
Mr.G and Ms.Carr,
You have made this class the best class ever!! Everyday I look foward to your class and the amazing discussions.You have taught us so many lessons that will carry us through life.I think the whole lesson on the Genocide really opened my eyes.It was crazy to see what was going on in other countries because I never knew what it was really like and now I have a clearer picture.I really appriciate the lessons you guys have taught to us and will use them everyday!!!!
love and thanks,
Oatmeal:)
Mr G and Ms Carr, this class means everything to me.Even though i dont really say much in class, this blog really opened me up. I told my sister nicole about what happened and she was also upset. she said shes going to come in one of the days this week she is going to come in to visit you guys. But she has pink eye and a soar throat right now so she said if she gets better she will definatly come. But anyway, thank you so much for helping me so much about everything that you taught us. I love you guys!!
love,
Bridget<3
Well gee I sure wish I saw this post before I spent all day Friday making a petition and handed it in this morning. It seemed like Mr. Carol was O.K with it when I was there though right?
-G.P.(freshman)
P.s. hope I'm allowed to even comment on the 8th grade's page, if not just remove it my bad.
I totally agree with Austin. I know that you can't support it, but our petitions kept getting taken away. With every time it was taken away, we started a new one and tried harder to get signatures on it. We don't care if we get in trouble.
I just hate that you say "all we lose is our class" because that's not all you lose. I mean, Nick said the only reason he goes to school is because of our class, and you know that there would be other kids like that.
You guys worked very hard for seven years to get our class to where it is, and it's terrible that they can just take it away like this.
This class is special and one of the only reasons I actually get out of bed in the morning. I would love to sleep till noon every day, but I know that if I do, I'll miss LA.
I kind of don't want to go to Seneca because, they won't have a class as open and trustworthy and awesome and uncensored :) as ours. Kids like us, no, all kids need a class like ours, and it's horrible to think that they won't get it. I mean, I've talked to seventh graders about how amazing our class is, and they all want to get to 8th grade to have this class. It's such a shame that they'll never get it.
I want to keep fighting this, but deep down, I think I know it will never get anywhere. And it's hard to live with that. I've been someone who fights things all my life and I just can't live with this happening. But, it will and no one's gonna listen to a 13 year old girl about it. Hell, they wouldn't listen to a million 13 year olds about anything.
~Jules :(
Mr G and Ms Carr,
I think everyone in this class can agree its more then just a class, and knowing that you may be seperated as teachers it makes me think of all the teenagers who won't be able to have what we've had. Seeing how much you've made me a better person and made me myself again, I believe your class should be a necessity. Your class is the first class that actually does something and kids don't consider a joke. No matter how upset I come to school once I get to your class first period, I forget reality. It gives me the hope that everything will be okay. No other teacher or student in any other class will get it. Mr G and Ms Carr's class is the best time I've had in Indian Mills, and its really sad knowing its ending, but I hope it's not for long. I want to be able to come visit from Seneca and see you two teaching together again. What you've done already is a tremendas effort in making teenagers better people. Your class is a worthwhile lesson, thats unforgettable.
K.Siggy
mr.g and ms. carr,
Thank you so much for being such great teachers. Every morning i wake up wondering what interesting thing we are going to talk about each and everyday. You class is totally different then all they other language arts classes i have been in, and it become no doubt my #1 favorite, all of us students are able to express our feelings in your class without it getting out to the entire school. I guess to me its a Safe haven, where i can let most of my feelings out... but i guess. we as students should let the school do its thing. but i guess the students want to have a say in all this stuff thats happening. but we love you guys and you really need to keep teaching together.(:
love,
michaela howell(:
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Nobody can teach kids what you've taught. You've taught us how to live, love, and be comfortable with ourse;ves and respect one another. I am truly thankful that you picked me and everyone else to be in your class. You two are the best teacher and the most kindest people I will ever meet. And don't worry, in a way you two will never ever be split up. Friendships like that don't just evaporate. So thank you, Mr. G and Ms. Carr, for giving me and I'm sure everyone in our class for giving us the best 8th grade I could have ever asked for.
Love,
Jon Hanes. =)
P.S. I tried to start a petition along with Jules and teachers threw them out. Can they even do that? I don't think so. =)
mr g and mrs carr are the best teachers i have ever been blessed to be in their class..i have changed alot this year and i feel like it was for the best.
thank you for everything
MAGGS):
This class is the only thing that I ever really beleived in, and next year when I come to visit I'm gonna be heartbroken when i have to visit two different schools just to see the two most influencial people in my life be seperated when they shouldn't. I dont want to see you guys pull apart from a school board, but i know you will keep and touch and still be bffs ( first time i ever used the Bff term, I hate it) and continue teaching the way you do and changing kids lives for the better. I know because you changed mine
-MeggiB
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