no more teachers, no more books...!

[Cegninedorf]

Oy! Last day of school -- finally! :dancer: Why on earth did it take so long??? I'll admit: I'm already planning & excited about the coming year...but this year itself was a real bummer. The kids in general were fine; it was the administration, the other teachers, the other students outside of mine, the nonsense extra programs & testing dumped on us at the last minute...blah blah blah. :argue:

In fact, I even charred a bit of a bridge today with a colleague (I won't know if I actually burned it until next school year...! ), but I'm tired of this woman: one week it's "I'm your best friend" and the next it's "I'm not talking to you"...and every day I get at least 2-3 notes from her asking for something. She's now been a teacher for 3 years, and she talks non-stop about money (and why on earth did she go into teaching?!) & gossip. So...I ratted her out after she left a disastrous mess in her classroom (food everywhere, ice cream melting on the floor & left in a bag on a table...it was a pigsty!) & she got yelled at by the principal. Her fault, no question, but she was desperate to know who told on her (ummm...anyone walking past her classroom could've seen it!)...so, I gave her the low-down, and now I'm in her dog house, where I'm happy to be if it means she leaves me alone!

However, I'm looping with my students to 3rd grade next year, along with 2 wackos from the other 2nd grade teacher (and she's in cahoots with the aforementioned nutcase...so I think that she specifically wanted me to have her wack-jobs...), but I'm not worried. I think it will be fine. The other 23 who have known me now for a year will peer-pressure the heck out of the 2 wackos to behave, and all will be well.

As it is, I've already won $1,675 for my classroom next year. Oh, and I helped the other two witchies win $500 a piece for their classrooms... I'm such a nice person...!

Have a great summer, y'all! :wavey:

 

[wade]

The kids in general were fine; it was the administration, the other teachers, the other students outside of mine, the nonsense extra programs & testing dumped on us at the last minute...blah blah blah. :argue:

The Educators Prayer. I taught for 10 years. I have spoken those words many times.

 

[Cegninedorf]

The Educators Prayer. I taught for 10 years. I have spoken those words many times.

Amen.

Although I'm already well aware that the grass isn't greener on the other side, I do have plans to leave Chicago (I teach in an inner-city, public school that is broke, broke, broke...) after two more years of teaching here...and going south to Charlotte, NC. I know that they've got problems of their own, so we'll see how it goes...at least I've already cut my teeth in a super-tough situation & survived. I've got skillz...

(I had the craziest kid in school come to my room to ask for my autograph on the last full day, all because I occasionally tease him about my snakes...I've talked to the kid three times in my life, and he went out of his way to find me. Every time I did talk to him, I got him to smile, which he never does because his home life is a mess. This last time was no different...and I was really touched to see him visit me. )