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Picard S2:E4

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One of my former admins visited my current school today on a scouting mission for a new school she is starting. She walked into my room and it was like OMG YOU I LOVE YOU. Just a random happy moment. I adored working for her even though the school itself didn't work out for me.

"You know nothing about politics!"

(Yelled by a 7 year old to an 8 year old as we walk across the playground returning from our trip to the public library. I want to know the context but didn't get to ask as I was promptly distracted by another kid eating trash....)

I'm struggling to have the patience I must have with my students when I just want to curl in a dark corner and cry because I'm so worried about family issues that I can hardly think straight.

Being an adult sucks. Being an adult who has to have their shit together to teach little people how to keep their shit together is worse.

I hate state testing~~

I hate giving it.

I hate talking about it.

Everything about it is terrible.

But we're doing good getting make ups and such finished, so hopefully the children will all be back at least one day between now and Tuesday so we can go back to "normal".

I think a lot of the 'fuck this' from teachers comes from the fact that we feel under attack already. The fuss about CRT, indoctrination, banning books, etc has REALLY had an impact on teacher morale. We have 2 teachers of 15+ years experience getting out of education because of the environment. (Love kids, like the school, but it is everything ELSE getting to them.)

So to see incompetence displayed can absolutely feel like it is going to give even more power to those attempting to destroy public education.

It has been a week since our fosters went home and I swear my Calypos and my Kiva are depressed. Caly follows us everywhere now, and is trying to cuddle more with Kiva than she EVER has. And Kiva's ALLOWING it most of the time.

I'm so sad I can't bring new kittens in for them to play with.

I walked into another teacher's classroom yesterday and in the ~90~ seconds I was in there I witnessed three utterly unsafe behaviors from kids and another 3-4 behaviors that even a minimal amount of teacher presence would have fixed.

I'm not even sure that this teacher was AWARE I walked into her room, let alone what the children were doing.

So I wrote it down and handed it off to admin because MY JOB IS NOT TO POLICE OTHER TEACHERS but it IS to report when I see something unsafe.

My VP had the AUDACITY to come to me and say "are you sure you wouldn't be better to talk since you know the kids and are more experienced."

And the answer is absolutely not. I had a moral obligation to speak out, but I in no way have the ability to control what goes on in another person's classroom. THAT is the job of the admin. If they want me to do admin duties they'd better pay me for doing them because otherwise - nope nope nope.

Tagging on,

I'm a HUGE proponent of teaching history thematically rather than in chronological order. There isn't TIME in a year to be able to cover everything and have even a fraction of it stick. So you either choose specific times and dive deep and ignore the rest, or your breeze through the timeline and don't go deep. If you do things more thematically then you can purposefully develop hooks that allow students to tie ideas together and build lasting memory. Will you hit ALL of the timeline? No, but what students DO know they'll actually KNOW.

@Ghost

Colorado Born:

It is Soda Pop and I'll fight anyone who says differently.

I'm a huge Sanderson fan. I fall on this side of crazy where I'll chatter endlessly with another fan, but not so crazy that I join the Sanderson forums.

I do have one weird quirk though, whenever a new book comes out I
a) Don't read the advance released chapters
b) Wait till I can read all day because I know that once I start I WILL NOT sleep till I'm done.

So now I have Stormlight #4 on my Nook and it's waiting for me. It's like an itch but I can't scratch it because I ~do~ have to sleep.

If Thanksgiving could come now that'd be ~awesome~.

ANYWAY.... anyone want to talk Sanderson with me until I can read Rhythm of War?

Omg, my heart! IT HURTS FROM JOY. I want to pet that head so badly.

@Testament

This is how I feel reconnecting with someone who is just hella fun to play with. @L-B-Heuschkel

@thenomain

This was magical.

Brandon Sanderson: I hate you so much.

I just finished Rhythm of War.

Now I need to go reread all of the cosmere books because there was so much cross world connection that I can't not.

Ugh. IT IS SO MANY BOOKS. (I am not actually complaining.)

I will not be reading anything else for the next few months. Excuse me as I cancel every loan at the library.

My school just announced that we will close as of monday and I am devastated. I know it is a good thing for public health but...

God my kids.

@deathbird

This is how I feel about Margerie-P and Adalyn-P on Arx. Literally could not have asked for better family.

@Three-Eyed-Crow

Kenna yesterday went, "I wish I had spent more time with Esoka getting good at stuff", because poor Riagnon is having having to pick up the slack.

@lordbelh

I thought you said Puppy War at first and I was all in.

I swear to god I will not be surprised if teachers just throw their hands up in the air and straight up quit. We're being asked to do a million things badly and nothing WELL.

A parent reached out concerned because her SECOND GRADER is carrying multiple text books home every day (100% agree, this is stupid as fuck. If we go remote they should be able to come and get them vs carrying them home EVERY DAY) and all I could do is say that I'm so sorry it's happening but that I don't know what to do, maybe if she calls the office they might be able to brainstorm something?

My only bright spot is that my kids in front of me seem to trust me and are willing to try. But there's a point where that validation just isn't enough any more and the DAMAGE that's being done to kids is more heavily weighted.