They already cancelled school for Monday because of the big Nor’Easter blowing in. They say we could get up to a foot of snow. Friday sure was a good day to play hooky, ‘cuz now I get a four-day weekend! I’m happy now, but I’ll be miserable come June! At least then it will be okay to sit and do nothing. Maybe it will be so hot the little brats will stay home. One can dream.
Yay, snow!
You are a perfect example of what is wrong with the teaching profession today. The LAST place you should be is in front of a sea of young faces that hang on your every word and action. I am certain that your “little brats” enjoyed your four day weekend more than you can imagine. They probably had the opportunity to smile, laugh, and enjoy being away from such a miserable role model. Yes… teaching is draining, demanding, and trying. Yes… kids can be difficult. Yes… there are other professions, and I suggest that you find a new one. I’ve been teaching for twenty years, and I’ve had my share of “bad days.” However, never once, have I demoralized my students with the vicious selection of words you have chosen to use. June can’t come soon enough for your students. Hopefully the next school year will provide them with a door that opens with a smiling face, a warm heart, and teacher who is ready to motivate, inspire and challenge them to go beyond what they ever dreamed was possible. Take my advice… get out! Our future depends on it!
P.S. Have a wonderful day!
I doubt they enjoyed my absence for two reasons:
#1 Half of them got warnings (for breaking the school rules they’ve had since kindergarten – one of the symptoms of stupidity would have to be not learning something as simple as “I walk and speak in a quiet manner” after 5.5 years). When I’m there it’s 4 , maybe 5 kids at the most, not 12. (Because if you had gone back a few pages, you would have read how they don’t behave for *any* teacher in the school – or even the principal.) Two of them even made it to Time Out (hey, if you act like a second grader, I’m going to treat you like one) and got sent to the office.
#2 She actually followed the sub plans. (Maybe that’s why it snowed – a true miracle!)
Why do you assume that the words I use here are the words I use in my classroom?
That one’s wearing rose colored glasses if she thinks it’s all fine and dandy in the public schools today. Where is she teaching?
I teach in a rural area, also second grade, and I’m beat at the end of the day from managing 24 kids, six of whom, after 2 years in this school can’t remember how to behave.
You smile too much, you’re dead meat! That’s what my aunt told me, a retired nun, no less, when I started doing my practicums in college. “You’re not there to be their friend. Do your job, and do it well.”
Oh, LM, you have no idea… Sharon was my stalker for about a week til I Googled her and exposed where she worked and lived. She teaches in upstate PA and – get this – her entire school district doesn’t even have 10 students of any minority in any grade level (as reported in PDE PSSA reports). If you want to read more nastiness by Sharon see I Hate Stupid People and Where Are My Glasses?. (Before reading “I Hate Stupid People” I would like to say that last year I had the WORST class in ten years of teaching, and the week before this post I had taken a day off in an attempt to avoid a nervous breakdown.)
Oh god, I forgot about that CrackHead… good times Institutrice… good times
I was just re reading “I Hate Stupid People” and saw you closed comments….probably best b/c it would never stop—-but new thoughts arose from re-reading it:
1. Still hilarious that you were looking for something to throw w/o your name on it !
2. It seems that as teachers we are supposed to live with a constant smile on our face, even when things get rough. On that post your frustration was palpable and stress through the roof…and yet- you were not suppose to even express your feelings anonymously on your own blog? I get it- not saying it in the class…but you never said that. And the last reply from the guy who had bad educational experiences…is a great reflection on how society expects us to be all giving and self-sacrificing for every kid. Where is the accountability of students? Of parents? …….play it again Sam!
Amen, Sister!!
Well, now I can say (mockingly) to #2 that “we are in a customer-service business”… Whatever. Why are we supposed to take their abuse?