“Deadliest Mass Shooting. . .”

[frawin]

Diane give it up, you are in a LOSE LOSE SITUATION. Who cares anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Diane Amberg]

Go sit in the corner with Ross. I started teaching in 1966.The ambulance was nights and weekends part time. Started in '69. Had July and part of August off school, so I could take daytime runs  (volunteer) with an occasional professional paid call with a private ambulance service. I did not stop teaching and start riding as a volunteer EMT instead! I taught for 40 years, not two. I also took graduate courses, but didn't quite finish my master's.
I fought the chalk allergy for years before my Doc said I had to give it up. My classroom was cleaned thoroughly and no chalk was used in there. Actually it worked out pretty well, as it was a portable classroom with air conditioning. I used chart paper taped to the chalk boards and walls and used markers instead of chalk.  I wore a ''bracelet" of masking tape on my wrist.   Sadly, there was nothing I could do for airborne chalk dust in the rest of the building and eventually my doc asked me it there wasn't something I could do with my education beside classroom teaching.
I was asked and started teaching at the State Fire School in Dover,(in 1974,) also part time evenings and weekends. (All dry markers on white boards, no chalk.) Eventually they had enough work for me to go with them full time/part time, which also meant going back into schools as a resource teacher for fire safety... back to chalk dust for a few schools. Of course that's the busiest during the fall months. Sometimes I worked school hours and then taught from 7 to10 ( EMT)  at night on the same day. I even taught industrial night shift classes that started at 11 Pm. I was the only instructor willing to do that live. Night shifts were usually stuck with boring tapes and no way to ask questions.
Most schools had already started using white boards and markers. I found if I was in a "chalk school" four days in a row, my problems started to return.(asthma and severe bronchitis)
Fortunately the trend was quickly going to overheads, white boards, smart boards and computer programs, (power point, tapes, discs, etc.) No more chalk, no more problems. I finally "retired" from teaching as such in 2006, but still do a few public speaking events, summer camps and such from my fire company. Between teaching through the State Fire School, (First Responder) for the police academies ,the fire academies,  (Wilmington) DenRec and others, I got to know most everybody...easy to do in a small state. I also did many, many safety meetings for duPont, ICI, CibaGige and the other big industries here... I taught both emergency care and fire safety subjects including evacuations, both industrial, nursing homes and hospitals, and rescue skills (lifts, loads and carries) and fire extinguishers .One of my favorites was teaching fire extinguishers for the "cafeteria ladies" from all the public schools in Delaware.They liked having a female instructor. Actually there was lots more, and yes, Al and I continued to take Friday night ambulance duty and picked up weekend and holiday runs all those years also, not to mention involvement with the firefighting side of it all....so I was teaching from 1966-2006. (Al also taught part time EMT courses from 1968-2006)
Yes, I could have returned back to "one classroom) public school teaching, but I was having too much fun. Plus, we were acting as the 'go to guys' (project managers) building Charter Schools one at a time. Al and I did four of those, plus some expansions. I met with the teachers to collaborate on room designs. We also built two fire stations, an expansion and a building for a shooting club. Sadly, Al's health doesn't allow  for that any more and mine isn't the best, so Boyd Services is out of business now.
At 71 and a half, like most people that age, I'm enjoying being retired and not quite so busy.I worked my butt off for 40 years and that's plenty.
Now call me a liar if you wish.There is still more I could share, but why? I'll be called a liar anyway, not that my life depends on what any of you think.
I've got good Kansas blood lines from both sides, so I'm of tough pioneer stock, but would prefer the company of gentle, polite people who treat each other with respect.
But, if need be, I can bite and scratch with the worst of them ...I've used up all my quarters...gone for now. Enjoy the holiday.
You can wake up now. Remember, you asked for it.
Sorry Frank. I'll answer this because it's Jar who asked.Then I'll leave again. I just don't like being called a liar when I'm  not.

[Ross]

   ,
You sure are touchie and sensitive, but it was you that mentioned the two years some time back.
Must be that Liberal Streak and your rambling that confuse you. B

BUT, Just the same let's not confuse Education with Intelligence
or
Common Sense !

[Ross]

Diane give it up, you are in a LOSE LOSE SITUATION. Who cares anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yea Diane like he said, " Who cares anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! " ! LOL

[Diane Amberg]

I was asked by Jar and so I answered. I am not the touchy one, nor do I always have to have the last word. Again you are calling me a liar. Perhaps you just misunderstood something I said...Or are you a real Dipshidiot!
You don't like my posts, don't read them.
Who cares? I do. I am not a liar.
I don't know why it would be so surprising that I have led a busy life doing many things...typical Kansas blood lines. Many different things happening, multiple things going on to make $. My family ( both sides) always had multiple things that they were doing. I won't bore you, or Frank with what they did.
Off now so Frank doesn't blow a gasket. It would seem to be on the wrong thread at this point anyway.

[Ross]

I was asked by Jar and so I answered. I am not the touchy one, nor do I always have to have the last word. Again you are calling me a liar. Perhaps you just misunderstood something I said...Or are you a real Dipshidiot!
You don't like my posts, don't read them.
Who cares? I do. I am not a liar.
I don't know why it would be so surprising that I have led a busy life doing many things...typical Kansas blood lines. Many different things happening, multiple things going on to make $. My family ( both sides) always had multiple things that they were doing. I won't bore you, or Frank with what they did.
Off now so Frank doesn't blow a gasket. It would seem to be on the wrong thread at this point anyway.

Well, well such a nast mouth on you. Goodness me!

It was your friend Frank is that his name"  That said and I quote:

Who cares anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just agreed with him, I don't think any body really cares about your past and denials and self pity
as always the victim.

But I understand every thread on the forum is all about Diane!
And I understand how important that is too you!

Relax for awhile and enjoy life.

Bye-Bye !