On Thursday, January 30, 2003, Mac McLaughlin (UWP graduate) wrote:
Subject: Talking About Learning, Teaching, And Grading
Jeanne taking 168 students last semester, and Susan taking 160!!! And then Jeanne says, "You're nuts for taking 160 students..." (yadda yadda yadda)
You're both nuts! lol
mac
LOL!!!!! (Laughing Out Loud)
On Thursday, January 30, 2003, jeanne responded:
Is this sass out of UWP, or what?
Mac, Pat and I went into CSUDH yesterday from 12 to 7, to check with all the students who were going to work with us on the Imperial Scholarship Project for Sociology of Reality at the undergraduate and M.A. level. We figured on a dozen or so students. My notes show that 26 students showed for transaction meetings in my office. I didn't even have time to eat the sandwich someone brought me. But Pat and I went home laughing and happy. Teaching is like love. It's fun to give it.
Now, as Susan says, which part of "retired" is it that you don't get, jeanne? The thing is, I get it; it's you others who don't. Retirement is that portion of life during which your early work under the control of the hierarchy gives way to the work you love and choose not to live without. LOL!!!!! (Laughing Out Loud)
love and peace, jeanne
On Thursday, January 30, 2003, Susan wrote to Mac:
cc: Jeanne Curran
Subject: Re: Talking About Learning, Teaching, And Grading
how do you like "transparency" for students to read? i showed it to some
of my students who've had me before and they just started "cracking up"
at the dialogue between jeanne and i. (and of course, some of them met
jeanne and pat in chicago so they really understood quickly!)
susan
On Friday, January 30, Mac wrote to Susan:
sure! i bet they laughed. neat to know some could really plug you both
into real life. real neat. dialogue aside...you're still both nuts. lol
mac
On Friday, January 30, 2003 Susan wrote to Mac:
thanks for the reassurance and vote of confidence, mac.
susan
On Friday, January 30, 2003, jeanne fussed:
Now cut this out, you two. I'm trying to get up Imperial Scholarship and Anthony Cook's theology of Martin Luther King, Jr. How'm I supposed to concentrate? Mac, we're not crazy, we're just "Other." We see an alternate ideology for education. Of course, that makes us crazy when we near kill ourselves trying to realize our ideal. But what an ideal! And Susan knows I only turned those grades in late because the whole pack of us mistook the date. Yeah, that's crazy. We don't fit well in bureaucracies with their non-learning systems that don't understand that when lots of people don't get it, their is something wrong with the system. We finally figured that out in criminal justice when we began to look at who we were lockiing away forever in our jails, and compared that to the crimes of Enron. As long as crazy means willing to upfront and personal confront a system that is harming people, call me crazy.
love and peace, jeanne
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Talking About Learning, Teaching, And Grading