Post by butch2 on Aug 22, 2011 17:10:10 GMT -6
PINK XANDER VICE
FULL NAME: Pink Xander Vice
BIRTHDATE: January 3,1978
AGE: 32
SUBJECT: Computers
YEARS TEACHING: 5
YEARS AT BLACKWOOD: this is his first
HEALTH CONDITIONS: None
ADDITIONAL: Skylar Brown is his daughter, he got her mother pregnant when she was about three years older than he was and they were at a party and when she contacted him to let him know that she was pregnant, he freaked out. He was a fifteen year old kid with a kid of his own on the way. He did the unmanly thing and ran. Later that same year he was caught up into drugs and a lot of bad things (not that he was into the best of things before) and he was arrested. He spent three years in juvenile detention and then, when he was eighteen he got out. It took a year before he was in trouble again. This time he earned himself another three years in prison. He came out a completely changed man. He wasn't exactly a born-again Christian, but he had turned his life around, but without God. He became a teacher and when he finally found Skylar again here he wanted to come here to teach to keep an eye on her.
“Why did you decide to go into teaching?”
I love kids, they just lift up my spirits. I really like watching them grow from where they were from the beginning of the year to the end.
“What can you offer the school?”
I have a lot of experience and I am not afraid of dealing with the more... violent students. I have a kind of insight into their motives and, though I am by no means unique, it helps a great deal
“Why do you want to work with troubled youth?”
Because I was once a troubled youth and I know what it takes to help them and I will do that to the best of my ability. I used to be just as troubled as some of these kids and it seems to be a kind of calling to help these kids and I would be honored to do it here.
“How long have you been teaching? What subjects have you taught? Where was the last place you taught?”
I have been teaching for just about five years. At first my passion was music, but that evolved into art and that evolved into technology some how. And I have been teaching computers for the last two years at Sheephead's Bay in New York and after they closed down and I saw that Blackwood was hiring, so here I am.
“How do you project yourself to students? How do you think your coworkers will see you? How do you see yourself?”
I try to project myself as an authority figure, but not an unapproachable one. If a student needs help with something I don't want them to be scared or hesitate to ask. After all, I'm a teacher, not a disciplinary official. I used to think of myself as quite the badass, but then life happened and I grew up. Now I think of myself as someone who has been given a second chance and I intend to help others with it.
“What is the worst decision you have made during your teaching career?”
The worst decision I've made during my teaching career? Ha, this should be interesting. I mean, I've made plenty of mistakes, but what human being hasn't? I would have to say that teaching in general was the best move I've ever made in my life. There was this one student who just didn't like me and made that fact very apparent every minute he could. After a semester of this, he did something was was the final straw on the camel's back and I snapped, verbally tearing him a new one. But that was when I first started and I have worked very hard on controlling that part of myself.
“Tell me a little about your life before coming to B.A.D.”
Well I had a rough patch when I was younger, my mom and dad weren't around very much and that gave me more than enough opportunity to get into things that weren't very good for me. I got into a lot of sticky situations and most of them I got myself out of. When my mom died I got into a very dark place and lost myself in a bad culture. It took a couple of turns through the legal system to set me straight, but I have been completely straight for ten years now. Nothing will ever pull me back into that life.
ALIAS: Coke
HOW DID YOU FIND US? Caution 2.0
CODE WORD: ADMIN EDIT
PLAY-BY: Zack Ward