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I'm okay, but I am so tired.
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I get a week off in the not too distant future.
Anyway, unfortunately, I am going to fly across the country to visit my parents for that week. I want to spend time with them, but I also do not want to travel. Killer layovers, time difference, etc. I will not be rested when I return. |
Today was a good one and a rough one. A student I worked with will be out on a medical leave so to speak. Trying to get the family to get him into the doctors for evaluations. Lots of self injury. It is sad that he is tormented. Praying for follow through and information. A great kid, lots of potential and tricky to sort out. Happens with our kiddos sometimes.
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I'm just plain tired...new meds and physical therapy...ugh!
So....getting new schedules this week...splitting the large afternoon classes so Orchestra and General Music will be separate...however, combining 6th grade which will mean 71 beginners in one class...unheard of...with no assistance! Wow - what a year and its only the end of September!!! Is it Friday yet? |
Pretty damn miserable.
Not a happy camper. Still.
Went to a work dinner tonight but it was mostly managers since only one colleague turned up. The project manager pulled me aside afterwards and told me that at a state board of education meeting, there were complaints still being made about me. I'm "too forceful". The project manager wants me to "soften" my personality. To be "nicer". To just, in general, change my personality. This complaint goes quite nicely with the only earlier this year, that I "show my face". Maybe I should forget about doing my Master's and be a backpacker bum around Asia. |
Forgot to add, one of my teachers sent me a text message around 5pm saying that she and her two colleagues won't be at school tomorrow. Meaning that the workshop can't be held at her school. Teachers go home at 2.30pm but she couldn't text me then or even earlier.
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Good news re discipline in our district. I just heard that they are going to jettison the zero tolerance policy.
Halleluja! I think I posted this before. The ACLU talking points on the school to prison pipeline. It's old but, unfortunately, it still describes what is happening. http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice/s...talking-points Did anyone see the PBS show last night called Dropout Nation. I haven't yet. It's online now. I am a little afraid to. I heard an excerpt on the radio, and it sounded too obvious to be interesting. Having been a teacher in so-called drop out factories for five of my seven years of teaching in California, I am kind of sensitive on the subject. |
Found out from one of my teachers, that the teacher who sent me an sms yesterday went ahead and informed the other teachers that there probably won't be a workshop today because she and her colleagues will be absent.
Hello?! I think that's MY job. And, I emailed the Project Manager today and asked to swap schools for next year. There's a vacancy and it shouldn't make any difference to the new person since my schools are in the same general area - well, my schools are a bit more north. He had better bloody say yes. |
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Funny for me, I work in a zero tolerance school, that doesn't really do consequences. And that drives me crazy. Both parts. Have policy, don't follow it. What? Well I should ammend that to say follow it only if the student is poor or non white. grrr! |
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I teach ninth graders and seniors one week, and tenth graders on the alternating weeks, and this upcoming week I teach two sections of tenth grade geometry and one section of a pre-engineering class.
Even though my young and excited/excitable colleagues chose a new geometry book, that class is very easy for me to teach, but the pre-engineering class is a challenge every day. I've never taught the class before and I am barely one day ahead of the kids, and possibly one day behind a geeky kid or two. We finally got the laptops we need, with the software installed, and we have most of the supplies we need to start designing and building circuits. I am demonstrating several new skills and new technologies this week, and (most of) the kids will love it, and it's pretty exciting. I always tell the kids, if you never try anything you don't already know how to do, you will never learn anything new, and I guess that's true for me too. |
Well, the good news, sort of, is that I'll have a different batch of schools next year. Closer to where I live but I'll have to deal with local traffic rather than highway traffic (not my idea of a good time). Plus, teacher from these schools warned that I was a "spy" for the state board of education officer for primary school English. :|
Oh yeah, and I have to go halves on a new phone to replace the one that I lent to my colleague (an American elementary school teacher) and she returned in shit condition without the battery recharger. |
Can't believe I will be facing 71 beginners in one class today...hope they got me some chairs, we were ant infested yesterday...then, a new schedule that leaves me little room to use the restroom or anything else....also, have an Army after school for detention, Football Game duty, and new evaluation stuff to finish. Also - have to fax a from to real estate agent needed for closing Thursday...
Still moving forward and making it work!. |
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http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...wxEiRQ67nSbxpl I suppose they would call you needy. Just like they do when you ask for chairs. I am teasing of course. More than a little irritated with "working conditions". |
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I'm sure there are other places to put this link as well, but thought it would be a great one for teachers. A news anchor (I think she's a news anchor) was criticised by a viewer for being fat. Here's her come-back on bullying:
http://jezebel.com/5948276/the-best-...called-her-fat |
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