User talk:Dwild008

I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only person going to school for a long time and not giving up. I feel like you I would like to teach one on one to kids that actually need the help and want to learn. Dtorr005 (talk) 23:46, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

I full heartedly agree with you on the loving to learn and always having something new to learn. I'm a little newer to the journey but I plan on spending a good portion of my life in continuing learning. Hcamp006 (talk) 07:02, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Rae, it's nice to meet you. Unlike you I am not a fan of going to college, but I do seem to keep coming back to it. I first got an associate's degree in chemistry, and worked in a lab for many years, but moved to Virginia and found I couldn't get a lab job like the one I had. I went back and got an associate's degree in electronics, decided to go on to ODU and earn a bachelor's in electrical engineering technology, which I will get in the spring. I then decided I don't want to be an engineer while my kids are at home, so I will be working on a master's in special ed. I hope I won't be working on any more degrees then, I really want to be the teacher and not the taught. I agree with your statement that if a teacher puts in the effort, the student can achieve whatever he or she wants to do. I think the teaching you are looking to get into sounds exciting and I'm sure you will do an excellent job.Jloon001 (talk) 01:54, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Hello Rae. I really enjoyed reading your "About Me" section, especially the quote from Condorcet. It was very interesting. There's lots of information on your page that reminded me of my life. For instance, I have 3 children as well (three boys). Not quite as old as your children though. I'm only 26, and my children are ages 5, 2 and 7 months. I agree with you 100%, when you said that parenting and teaching are the two most important and difficult jobs. Also, I'm an active duty Marine, and I hope to some day retire from the Marine Corps just as your son has. Was your son enlisted or officer. I'm currently enlisted (Staff Sergeant), but upon graduation I will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant. Finally, you remind me of my mother so much in your love of knowledge. My mother has also been in and out of school for the past 28 years. She considers herself a career educationalist. She finally received her Bachelors of Computer Science in 2005 and recently received her Masters in Computer Science this year. Even though you consider yourself to be a nontraditional educator, I for one can sincerely say that I am glad that an individual such as yourself, with your love of education and desire to inspire others to learn, have choosen to follow your dreams of teaching and share your gifts with others. Good luck in your future endeavors.

Aubrey   Abibb001 (talk) 04:00, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

First of all, I think it is great that you are still in school. I am behind, and feel as though I will never finish so it's nice to know there are other people that think they will be in school forever. Second, I agree completely with the fact that teachers have one of the most important and difficult jobs. I think people underestimate teachers and what they really do go through everyday at work. Good luck with everything!Kcart022 (talk) 04:03, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

your article
is fixed. i just added one slash. sorry this was confusing to you. have a great day!

PbakerODU (talk) 21:14, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

I know your daughter and she is an incredible person, to put it mildly. Hardly an 'ordinary' person, as you describe her. Veronica is a true wonder-- she can converse on almost any topic intelligently with experts in their fields and her ability of seeing things differently is almost magical. I met her 3 years ago at a party when she was dating a history professor from UNM and again a few months later at a 4 day music festival where I found her doing amazing body art on people and later, teaching people medicinal uses of common plants around the camp site during the day between acts--I HAD to get to know this woman. Over the few short years I've known her, we've become great friends and I've watched so many people come to her to 'rescue' and 'help' her due to their perceptions of her disabilities over and over again, and she'd turn the tables on them and ends up rescuing and helping them, including myself and my family. Even when she was going through a health crisis a year ago that has since passed, my wife found her helping a mutual friend with his charter school class by building a robot while laid out on a couch and teaching herself code to program it. His team is going to the national competition this year and I'd like to think she had a little something to do with it. He's always giving her projects like this to do to get feedback from her to better teach his classes as well as get insight to better include his special needs students. Too bad they didn't work out, they would've made a great couple, but my wife still has hope for those two as they continue to collaborate. I never met a kid or animal that didn't love her, even the shyest, they're all over her within minutes of her taking an interest in them and that is a special talent in itself. I have so much more to say about Veronica and a lot of words to describe her, but the only way I can use 'ordinary' is in the word extra'ordinay' to describe her. Its obvious that you have no idea of who your daughter is and what she's about and based on what little she has said and what she doesn't say about her family, it seems all of you could learn a lot from her.