![]() Half-raven, half-bandit, these wily tricksters roam the mountain to protect the sacred wisdom at its summit. My Sword of Virtue had been stolen by a gang of raven bandits. Halfway up the Mountain of Idle Dreams, I almost decided to turn back. ![]() For the Consciousness Gems alone, I had to complete all seven Labors of Kalahanga. Magic isn’t something you can buy from a normal auto parts supplier. What kind of a person has a catchphrase?) In any case, I can’t help but feel hurt.īy the way, I haven’t even mentioned the effort it took to get the magic to put in the bus. Frizzle clearly isn’t mentioning my name, either preferring to tell people that she made the bus herself or just found it somewhere, probably for the sake of her own mystical personal narrative. But I haven’t been contacted by a single teacher or administrator! Not even a curious car enthusiast. Frizzle showed up to school with that bus - and especially once she started getting all that press coverage for her innovative field trip-based curriculum - requests for more magic buses would start coming in and I could build up my shop’s reputation. I don’t think it was so outlandish of me to imagine that once Ms. I’m a small business owner, and I have a family to support. Look, I’m not saying all this just to be petty. So why aren’t I the beloved local celebrity with the sandwich named after her at Gino’s? It’s my bus, which defies the laws of physics to facilitate time- and space-bending educational experiences. Frizzle apart, and it’s not her lesson plans or her classroom management strategies. It doesn’t take a genius to spot the thing that sets Ms. But there are plenty of great teachers who aren’t getting these sorts of opportunities. Frizzle has been able to leverage her teaching success into some pretty lucrative moneymaking ventures, too: her book deal, her generous honoraria for speaking engagements, the animated children’s TV show they’ve made based on her life… I know public school teachers are woefully underpaid, and I’m glad the scales have tipped a little in this one instance. ![]() But the extent to which parents fight tooth and nail to have their kids placed in her class - I can’t help but think that’s at least a little bit because of the shape-shifting, sentient school bus that I made for her. She’s charismatic as hell, and I love how she matches her dresses to whatever subject she’s teaching. Normally, the satisfaction of a job well done is enough validation for me, but this has been eating at me for a long time, and I have to say something: I did all of the modifications on the Magic School Bus, and I’m tired of Ms. I’m proud of my work as an auto mechanic, and nothing gets me more excited than souping up a ride for somebody. ![]()
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