Major Change At Intrepid Classroom
Due to a lapse in my judgment regarding material posted on my personal blog, my school has asked me to resign. I want you, all the new classrooms reading this blog from around the world, to know that I am agreeing to this decision without reservation, and I understand the steps taken by the school to protect its reputation. I hope that readers of this blog will stay tuned for upcoming posts and news. I am a teacher with no other classroom but this one. I have removed all student links from the blogroll, because I am no longer responsible for the content on those blogs, but I hope some student-to-student connections have already been made.
This has been an unfortunate experience for us all, but I hope things will settle down and we can get back to the process of learning soon enough.
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since august you’ve tried to teach us about “unschooling” and how we can learn without worrying about grades and stuff like that and i think we all realize how important that is and will take it into account in the near future O_O!!! just to tell you a mob of students angry at your “resignation” may show up at your house one day ^.^
YO MR. RAISDANA, I MISS YOU DUDE COME TO SCHOOL UNEXPECTED ONE DAY AND BE LIKE YO YO YO MY PEEPS HOW IS YOU ALL! THEN WE WILL CROWD AROUND YOU AND LOVE YOU AND FEEL YOU!
YOU WERE THE BEST TEACHER IN 8TH GRADE I HAD. I LOVED YOUR TASTE IN MUSIC, SOMETIMES WEIRD BUT STILL COOLIO! MY EYES WERE HOT WITH A BURNING FLAME OF REVENGE FOR YOUR “RESIGNATION” AND I WILL FIND THE CULPRIT! AND MAKE THEM SAY SORRY FOR DOING SOMETHIN THEY SHOULDNT HAVE, anyway, found the caps lock 
dude you really were the best, emshey says hi and kenny says hi as well, imma really miss ya O_O!!!!!!!!!!! o0?
Hey Mr. R, We all miss you.
Attaya and Tony were crying and Me and Devin were on the verge of tears. Andrew and Rodrigo have been treating it immaturely. We want you to continue teaching us about blogging through Intrepid classroom. We hope to hear back from you soon. You are the best teacher we have ever had.
Your Friends and x-students,
Joey and Devin
Dear Mr. R,
When i first noticed you were gone for a day i just thought you to be sick. but today when in science Mr. S told us about your resignation I didn’t want to believe him, I didn’t. then in SWAT since our substitute wasn’t there we got to go to another teachers room. It was there that I first read your letter, only then I believed that you had actually resigned. this was a great shock to me, I had never expected this to happen. you were (wasn’t sure if I should keep this are or were) the best teacher I ever had (have). You made me look forward to Social Studies and Language Arts, the later of which I have hated since I moved here.
Now, I am sitting here thinking about what the new teacher will be like. Also, I am thinking that he/she will never match up to you.
Thank you for being a great teacher (the best I have ever had)
<David
Dear Mr. Raisdana,
I’m sorry that all this has happened, and i know that you will be missed very much. I hope that you continue on teaching and opening up the minds of other students all over the world. But hey, atleast you dont havta deal with our class last block on a Thusday ever again. We’ll miss you,
Alix
P.S. Just as Shadi said, dont be suprised if a group of students turn up at your house one day, begging you to come back.
Hey Mr. Raisdana,
I cant believe what happened and I’m going to miss you so much i hope we can keep in touch with each other and i will keep on checking the edu eight blog. All your advise will always be with me thank you soo much for a wonderful half year.
Thanx, Sama
If you dont come back Jabiz Raisdana, I will personally work out to be strong, come to your house, pick you up and place you in your chair.
Mannnnn! I cant believe that this happened! After the assembly, I looked for the kids in our class (Because our class was by far your favourite, DONT LIE!) and I saw Paola. I went up to her and she looked might pissed off, mighty mighty PO’d. Yet, she had said this one thing: “Mr. Raisdana was the only teacher that got me to think.”. I thought to myself, “Wow, he was my only teacher too.” Throughout the day I heard more of these similar comments and I found out that you were by far everyones favourite teacher… I was really sad/mad today, sad for the reason that I wont be able to march into your room on a thursday and tell you a joke or a band I heard about. Mad for the fact that some punk ratted my favourite teacher out and put him into a situation where he had no other choice but to resign.
So, for my final words…
COME BACK!
Dear Mr.R
When I first met u i was like ok….. but i got to know u and ur teaching style and u were the bessst teacher in 8th grade, u tought us how to think and feel for ourselves u tought us how to look at the world around us and care! WE MISSS U SOO MUCH we were all on the verge of tears u could look at us and tell we were fighting to hold it in. Everyday we would run into ur class to see what life topic we would talk about that day and everyday was an adventure. U understand what its like to be a teen. U were the best teacher i have ever had please dont let something stupid like this keep us from having the best teacher ever. I learned so much with u i thought it would take my whole life to figure out u made a significant difference in all of our lives and unlike what alix and shadi said kids mite show up trust me.we will. please come back!! you have always told us grades arent important and we should earn because we want to well u made us want to learn and forever i will be grateful to have had u for the 7 fast months and hopefully will come back so we can have more. I just want to thank you for being the best teacher i have had and i want u to know how highly we think of u and how u have impacted all of our lives in positive ways. never forget us we will never forget you..i promise
thank you
we miss you
just to add on to the angry mob thing, some of us will be carrying the cupcakes that wonderful member of our swat class always made… yumm
Hey Mr Raisdana,
The moment I heard your resignation, I was really astounded. I couldn’t accept the fact that you have resigned. At the beginning of the year, I thought you were a boring teacher. However, after a few months, I kinda understand you and realized you were a great, enjoyable teacher who taught us with your heart and soul. It was a great pleasure having you as my Language Arts and SWAT teacher. I’m sure each and every one of us will miss you very much. Even though you’re out of ASD, still keep in touch okay. Anyhow, all the best in your teaching career. Hope you will enjoy every single moment of it. Thank you very much for all your lessons. Bon Voyage, Mr Raisdana. Take care.
Kenny
Mr. Raisdana,
As I was sitting in the lunchroom a student runs to me saying, “Mr. Raisdana was fired!”
I nearly choked on my drink making sure that I had heard what she had said clearly. The ansrew why, only made my knuckles turn white and my cheeks turn red.
“That’s not fair!” I said my voice shaken with anger.
It news hit me like running into a train, was it true? Could it really be true. I could only hope. I throught that day I was only hoping that it all was a big joke, that I would walk into the classroom and you would pop out of a corner saying:
“Surprise!”
But no, the room had been drained of it’s contents, the only remaining thing was the six posters. The only color in the depressing room. No plant, no music, no joy. Only shock and anger.
As your note was read, tears began to fill my eyes. I couldn’t even look into Mr. Lads eyes. It was true, and it was not a dream. Only a nightmare.
Writing this as made a stomach twist and trun in my stomach. But I have learned that I will have to run with the flow, and only hope for the best.
But I have looked up the word Intrepid and I am happy with the defintion. It means blod, fearless and couragous. The meaning of Intrepid Classroom.
I”LL MISS YOU!
whoah..
this is really unexpected .. from what I can see you really got through to these students, just like you did to us.. I’m really sorry to hear that you got the axe because I know from personal experience that teaching isn’t just your job, it’s your life. I just want to wish you the best of luck with everything and I’m really sorry …
PS you can always come teach 10th grade english in mkis next year
Dear Mr. R,
It is really unfortunate to what has happened to you. I hope everything goes on well as through the years I’ve appreciated your great work on this blog even though you had left MKIS where you have been missed by a great deal by everyone.
I can only hope the best for you in what’s to come for you in the near future. This is just the beginning of your phase in life.
Best of luck!
Dear Mr R.
I think what happened was tragic, I think your note was really good as well. The things you taught us, were not just boring L.A. things, you taught us about skills that will really help us in the future. I hope you finish your poem about the workers (which still doesn’t have much work on it). Are you still going to check our blogs, cause I’m not going to just stop working on it. You were and still are my favorite teacher. I wonder what weird and wonderful things you could have taught us if you stayed until the end of the year. I also wish that there was a delete button in life so we could delete all the problems in our life, and so you could teach us something. Right now all I can think about is if this was a sick joke that the teachers played on us (I wish), like getting punkd. I Like how you think and what you want to do with the world. I kinda want to know what you did, but I don’t think that anything is bad enough to get the best teacher to resign. Your room is so boring with out you and your stuff, and when it says 8th grade english (or something) on the door and the person who could have created and shaped the language english for fun. I get mad when people scratch that name out. Everyone misses you and I think you should not have been forced to resign because of an art project you did a year ago, we need to tell people to leave the past in the past, and not make the best teacher in the world resign.
I can’t belive what happened, so many of us are still schocked. I was talking to Randa and we both just expected you to just walk in class, or see you in the hallways. It was so weird in la today, everyone was sad you were gone, we miss you getting pissed at us because we were being too loud, especially after your journalism class. After mr. latzke told us about what happened we werent really expecting it, so many of us though that it was just another boring assembly about something we were doing wrong. Alot of people actually started tearing up. I know its gonna be really werid for all of us in class now, but whats happened is in the past, and we all just have to find a way to deal with it, even though its not easy. We’ll all miss you so much!
Haya
PS- i was really looking forward to you singing your labor song! You should post it on youtube sometime
oh and i hope you still check up on our blogs….
Yo mr R.
It was such a shock to me that you would not come back to teach our class. For once I actually enjoyed L.A! I didnt have to worry about grades and stuff…well kind of. I dont know what to say so i will leave before i say something stupid.
Peace.
Emad.
P.S, I live really…really close to you. I’ll be watching you…
They say that all you need to know you learn when you are young,
But I believe that thats not true because of all you’ve done
You’re more than just a teacher, you’re a companion, a friend,
And the list of all we’ve learned from you never never ends
You said that when united, accomplish anything, we would,
You believed in us, you said that with a will, we could
We’re so glad we got to know you, for however short it was,
You made adifference in all our lives, like no one ever does
Intrepid you were, and intrepid we’ll remember you,
And hope, that maybe, someday, we’ll be intrepid too
Just to add on the mob thing..it is possible for it to happen so be on the look out…
NOOOOOOO!!! please come back, you were the only teacher who i think liked me.
you taught me a lot, not only about grades, and stuff, but the way you thought us was different then most teaching, im listening to a sad song, and now i feel really bad :””(
Hey Mr. Raisdana,
All of us at school are really upset about you leaving. You were a great teacher and you were the best Language Arts teacher I’ve ever had. I think it’s really unfair that you had to leave, especially when we were going to learn all those tools (the only one I remember is delicious) you were saying were so great, and because we were just finishing up our poems and going to get ready to perform them. I hope you’re doing okay, and I also hope you still check on our blogs… I still don’t have a comment from you on there. Thanks, Mr. R. Goodbye.