Save Mr. Hwang
Finally I have something worthwhile to blog. My life is totally boring (marriage is WAY overrated), so it's nice to talk about the exciting lives of my single friends.
We've got a friend named Karl Hwang who lives in Watkinsville, a small town near Athens, GA, home of the those damn ugly dogs (can you tell I went to Tech?), where he's a math teacher at Oconee High School. He's also a fellow civil engineer, but he decided his passion was teaching, and from I hear, he's pretty good at it. Anyway, the school did not renew his contract for the coming year, even though he's gotten great reviews and he was even teaching AP classes this year. Rumor is they want to hire a couple of new coaches, which have to teach classes, including math - why not PE or Health? So to pay for their salary, they aren't renewing several contracts. This caused an uproar among the students - they wore t-shirts saying "Save Mr Hwang", they petitioned to the school board, they started a blog on myspace and they even held a concert benefit - Hwangapalooza-stock-fest - in his honor. Wow.
Unfortunately the Board would not revert their decision. So Karl has accepted a position in Hawaii. He did get an offer from another Athens school, so he could have taken it and stuck it to them, but I guess he's just a nice guy. Aloha and good luck Karl.
Finally I have something worthwhile to blog. My life is totally boring (marriage is WAY overrated), so it's nice to talk about the exciting lives of my single friends.
We've got a friend named Karl Hwang who lives in Watkinsville, a small town near Athens, GA, home of the those damn ugly dogs (can you tell I went to Tech?), where he's a math teacher at Oconee High School. He's also a fellow civil engineer, but he decided his passion was teaching, and from I hear, he's pretty good at it. Anyway, the school did not renew his contract for the coming year, even though he's gotten great reviews and he was even teaching AP classes this year. Rumor is they want to hire a couple of new coaches, which have to teach classes, including math - why not PE or Health? So to pay for their salary, they aren't renewing several contracts. This caused an uproar among the students - they wore t-shirts saying "Save Mr Hwang", they petitioned to the school board, they started a blog on myspace and they even held a concert benefit - Hwangapalooza-stock-fest - in his honor. Wow.
Unfortunately the Board would not revert their decision. So Karl has accepted a position in Hawaii. He did get an offer from another Athens school, so he could have taken it and stuck it to them, but I guess he's just a nice guy. Aloha and good luck Karl.
posted by tfufu at 10:26 PM
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Exciting lives of your single friends? Have any exceiting single lady friends you can help a co-worker out with? ;-) Since it's an anonymous post, I'll leave it for you to guess which one.
In other news...Hawaii sounds like a better option than Athens.
Obviously the one that can't spell! At least I caught it before anyone could ridicule me for it.
/exceiting = exciting
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And thus...Watkinsville, Georgia remains at the bottom of the U.S. Education ratings. But hey, they may win in football next year. Hope y'all enjoy dunderheaded kids (maybe theyll be Dawgs!!) .
Just another day in the Old South.
Good luck Mr. Hwang, and Aloha!
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