As I've written this blog through out the semester Carlos' name has certainly appeared more than once. Always involved in our class (although not always positively), Carlos has entertained, impressed and annoyed. Demonstrating that he is without a doubt one of the more intelligent individuals I have ever taught, Carlos will certainly be missed. Tomorrow is his last day with us as his family has moved and he will be heading to new school. In some ways I'm happy as a teacher to not have to deal with his "mischevious" behaviors or constant need for engagement (god forbid you ask him to chill for a couple minutes!), but in others I am sad to see him go. I know he's going to be an amazing student one day and that his maturity will catch up with his intelligence so it's a bit sad to only see the 14 year old Carols and not the Senior in High School dawning a cap and gown Carlos. Either way, he's one of those kids that you just don't forget.
As a farewell to our audience Carlos has written a brief story for us that occured on March 3.
He writes...
It was 3/3/08 and I cut my finger with a razor blade. I went to the hospital and there were some seanyers (seniors) ther for cretites (credits) they have to do. Somehow we started talking about math and I started telling them about quadratic equations. I got a piece of paper and showed them (-b +/- radical (b^2 - 4ac)) / (2a). They were like "is your school rich or something? We don't learn stuff like that at my school." I made a graph and found a, b, and c and showed them how it worked with the equation y = ax^2 + bx + c. They were amazed and wanted to konw how to do it at their school.
Carlos told me this story the day after it happened and I remember just feeling pride. Here's a freshmen who causes our school all sorts of trouble who opened a conversation about quadratic equations in an ER at the hospital with a group of Seniors from other schools. How do I know Carlos is going to make it? I know because of three things...1.) He loves learning new things 2.) He has amazing retention abilities. and 3.) He loves sharing what he knows and showing his thinking.
Good luck Carlos...we know you're going to do great things.
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