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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008
This is where it starts, my friends
Greetings, Captains of Industry!
My name is Luke Gattuso.
I come here in a time machine of my own creation. No, that's not right. I'm a 41 year old college student. I've worked at elementary schools since 1988, and now, barely twenty years later, I'm in my last semester at CSUN. Yes, I am a prodigy, an student genius! Bask in my glory!
I didn't start out planning to be a teacher. I didn't really plan to be anything, actually. I was taking computer science classes at Pierce College, but not really making any effort to pass them. I thought I wanted to be some sort of computer programmer, but the truth was that I found programming boring. I liked computers, but that was because they were fun, weird toys.
Eventually, I started working at an elementary school; not because of a great desire to teach, but because I had no job and my ex-girlfriend's boyfriend's mother was the office manager at an elementary school in Chatsworth, and she said they were looking for teacher assistants. I threw on the thrift-store sport coat I'd bought a few months before, interviewed with the principal, and suddenly I was an employee of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Then, something strange happened- I discovered that I actually liked working with kids. It might be the joy of watching young faces light up as they make connections, as they create and discover.
Or it might be that I'm mentally at the level of an eight year old child.
My name is Luke Gattuso.
I come here in a time machine of my own creation. No, that's not right. I'm a 41 year old college student. I've worked at elementary schools since 1988, and now, barely twenty years later, I'm in my last semester at CSUN. Yes, I am a prodigy, an student genius! Bask in my glory!
I didn't start out planning to be a teacher. I didn't really plan to be anything, actually. I was taking computer science classes at Pierce College, but not really making any effort to pass them. I thought I wanted to be some sort of computer programmer, but the truth was that I found programming boring. I liked computers, but that was because they were fun, weird toys.
Eventually, I started working at an elementary school; not because of a great desire to teach, but because I had no job and my ex-girlfriend's boyfriend's mother was the office manager at an elementary school in Chatsworth, and she said they were looking for teacher assistants. I threw on the thrift-store sport coat I'd bought a few months before, interviewed with the principal, and suddenly I was an employee of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Then, something strange happened- I discovered that I actually liked working with kids. It might be the joy of watching young faces light up as they make connections, as they create and discover.
Or it might be that I'm mentally at the level of an eight year old child.
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