{"id":698,"date":"2014-05-17T02:57:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T02:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/?p=698"},"modified":"2014-05-18T02:58:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T02:58:49","slug":"ap-testing-stanford-and-questioning-my-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisplot.com\/TheNewThing\/2014\/05\/17\/ap-testing-stanford-and-questioning-my-beliefs\/","title":{"rendered":"AP testing, Stanford, and questioning my beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another very full week; this time, five days in a row, though they were pretty easy days.\u00a0 OK, the first day, Monday, was not so easy.\u00a0 The teacher had a lesson plan that maybe covered half a class, and then forgot to put the most important bit on the internet for the kids to use.\u00a0 I had to track her down to get that document online for second period.\u00a0 After that, it wasn\u2019t too bad, but I think I messed up her plan because (with her approval) I doubled the lesson plan, and then the kids couldn\u2019t finish!\u00a0 Tuesday through Thursday was AP testing, which lasted until noon.\u00a0 Yeah! Half a day, and full pay.\u00a0 One kid threw up on the first day, projecting over three theater rows of seats.\u00a0 It was spectacular.\u00a0 After that, it was kind of boring.\u00a0 Through this three day period, I met three of the four counsellors.\u00a0 They had all heard good things about me.\u00a0 Good!\u00a0 During that period of time, I kept running into former students.\u00a0 They were all giving me hugs.\u00a0 This makes teaching very<\/em> rewarding \u2013 the kids remember you, enjoyed your company, and learned something in the process.\u00a0 On Friday, I was back in a favorite teacher\u2019s class.\u00a0 The kids were great.\u00a0 That day was also an assembly, which ran so long that it went through the break and into the next period.\u00a0 The result was that third period only lasted 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Barb and I went to Stanford to map out what we would do for the field trip in two weeks.\u00a0 We attended an excellent docent tour of the Rodan section of the museum, which will help us greatly, and we met some grad students who showed us a few things on campus, which was super nice of them!\u00a0 We also took the Porsche, so it was a really fun \u201cdate.\u201d\u00a0 On the way home, we saw a woman trying to apply makeup while driving.\u00a0 She almost ran into several cars and couldn\u2019t stay on the road, yet she was determined to get that makeup on.\u00a0 She eventually ran into a car that was right next to me at a stop sign.\u00a0 I probably should have called the cops on her when I had first seen her weaving.<\/p>\n

You know, that new show \u201cCosmos\u201d (an updated version of the original \u201cCosmos\u201d) is a great show, but it\u2019s really making me begin to question the Bible.\u00a0 Neil Degrasse-Tyson makes no bones about not believing in the Bible, calling it superstitious myth. \u00a0Unfortunately (for me anyway), his arguments are quite persuasive.\u00a0 I will have to assess what I truly believe and why.\u00a0 I have no doubt that there is a God \u2013 the universe all but screams that there is \u2013 but I am suddenly (and maybe not so suddenly) coming to the conclusion that the creation story is not literal, which means that the Bible is not inerrant (at least not that part), which is one of the tenants of LCMS Lutherans.\u00a0 Perhaps I am not a true LCMS Lutheran after all?\u00a0 I shall have to ponder this further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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