VOTE for Teachbad and HELP SMART KIDS!!
Hello, Readers.
I have been honored to be asked to participate in the California Casualty Management Company’s best education blog competition. CCMC is an insurance company serving teachers, nurses, firefighters and cops. My participation in this competition in no way constitutes an endorsement of the State of California. Nor should it be construed as an endorsement of CCMC, their services, products, or ethics; of which I have studiously learned nothing. OK?
If I win this competition, $200 will be donated to an organization of my choice. I have selected College Summit. College Summit finds kids who have the head and the heart for college, but might not have other things they need to become truly prepared and be successful once they get there. It might be a lack of resources at school, peer support, family engagement or money. College Summit helps bridge the gap to help smart, motivated students get where they want to be.
The organization started here in Washington, DC in 1993 and now works in 11 states and the District. And get this. Don Cheadle likes them, too. He was even a spokesman. That’s right. Hotel Rwanda-Don Cheadle and Crash-Don Cheadle.
So get over there and vote for me because it’s the right thing to do.
I tried to get a job at College Summit once, but they weren’t having it. Help me stick it to them now with a $200 donation from my readers.
Here is my competition. (There are only five of us.)
Little Kinder Warriors: A Kindergarten Blog
Mrs. Will’s Kindergarten: A Place to Share and Connect
A Special Kind of Class: A special class for children with severe physical and/or speech disabilities
and
Drape’s Takes: Takes on the World of Education Technology
You can link to them all at the voting site. Please help me at least place ahead of the kindergarten ones.
BUT THE TIME IS SHORT!
This contest started on June 1 and goes through the end of the month. I’m already 13 days behind because, for no good reason, I didn’t tell you. But we can make it up. Let’s help smart kids and show Don Cheadle how much we care! MOBILIZE!
In fact, in an act of charitable whimsy, I will donate 10 percent of gross proceeds from purchases at the Teachbad Store to College Summit from now through June 30. If I win; 20 percent. That’s the challenge.
Thank you,
Mr. Teachbad
I can’t help but notice that your blog is, um, different from the other contenders. Which I think is a good thing.
So it tells me, only 121 voters altogether. and yet, little kinder warriors has 135 votes, which the web site tells me is 112% of the total.
In my school system this means someone is involved in some sort of sexual liaison with someone else, although that may be the nature of the cold-weather states.
(shrugs)
You see what we’re up against? Every vote counts…some maybe more than once. VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!
You just got my vote… :O)
Hey guys! My name is Abbye and I am helping organize the Blog Competition. We know that the voting numbers/percentages are a little screwed up. That’s because we originally had ALL blogs together before seperating them into categories so we could give out 4 donations, not 1. We transfered over existing votes when we did this to preserve votes blogs already received, but it messed up the count totals/percentages. Not nearly as exciting as a sexual liason, but alas…
OH, so bottom line: the number of votes next to each person (NOT the percent) is what we will go of off to determine winners. We checked, and those numbers are accurate!
Good sense of humor, Abbey. A rarity in education these days. Anyway, kudos to you for seeing through the vanilla puddin’ cup of edu-wedgy speak sites and nominating TB. Un-kudos to your organization for tasting of the cup….Rock on, truth sayers, rock on.
Why can’t I vote twice?
I voted for you because you are so good at being bad.
Remember kids, “Vote early and vote often!” (You can vote multiple times by dumping your browser’s cookies.)
Although looking at the page’s voting statistics, I’m not sure I’d trust those people with anything more valuable than pocket lint.
So I’m dumb. How do I dump my browser’s cookies? Is that like losing your cookies? I computer vomit? I want to vote early and often for my hero Mr. Teachbad
Sort of, but less messy. Cookies are tracking programs that websites put on your computer when you visit them.
To get rid of them, look through the menus at the top of your browser. See if you can find one marked “preferences” or possibly “security.” Select it, then dig around looking for a tab marked “privacy” or “cookies.” From there you should find a button marked “clear all cookies.” When you click it, the browser will erase all of them. Then you can go vote for Mr. Teachbad again, among other clever things. (I use this technique to get around the NY Times paywall.)
If you use Firefox the process looks like this: Preferences, Privacy, Show Cookies, Remove All Cookies.
groovy! thanks….
Done!
If I start getting a ton of insurance email solicitations I’m blaming you Mr. TeachBad
Consider yourself voted for! Your blog provides laughs to educators, who, in these trying times, sorely need them. And, it always makes one feel better to be able to complain w/o fear of reprisal.
Teachbad, you perform a great service to the school community. Teachers who can laugh & complain in a public forum are helped to garner strength to go back to their schools & be better teachers for the experience.