Creepy Martin

i have been hanging a lot of artwork around the schools lately. i recently put up some work for a multicultural ice cream social night. it's basically a town full of whitey mcwhitersons that feel the need to celebrate diversity whenever it can.

not that it's a bad thing. as a minority, i truly believe we should educate each other about our cultural backgrounds to better understand each other as human beings. i just don't agree with my boards being decorated with this multicultural people border:

i feel like it gives our children the unrealistic expectations that if they meet a german, he'll be wearing lederhosen, and then they will really be bummed when they find out that germans wear jeans like the rest of us 'Mericans. It also gives them the unrealistic expectations that i should be wearing a kimono and walking around with a bad haircut. no stereotyping here, kids!

anyways moving on to the topic of my post: creepy martin.

my favorite project to display lately has been my second graders self portraits. mostly because they have completely unrealistic ideas of what they look like.

for instance- i have a student named albert, who is black, but he likes to make himself look like a white person in every picture he draws. albert is on the right. he did a great job with his stick straight hair tho. spot on.

Creepy Martin is my student who really is sort of a creep. he likes to walk up right next to me in my classroom and fart. then start at me. i suspect he is the kid who pooped in my room a few weeks back. i have nicknamed him turd ferguson, that was until i came across his self portrait last friday.

so pale. so weird. and why is he wearing a neck tie? haha.

ahhh, second grade. you continue to brighten my days.
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