Just passed someone who didn't deserve it because it seems easier than making them revise and resubmit :/
Looking up a student's record and there are two of the same name. One is Sr. and one is Jr. I pull up Jr. first thinking Sr. probably graduated long ago. Nope, turns out they're both in school and Jr. is ahead of Sr. haha
One of my favorite fun facts is that a guy who was in my fraternity graduated college the same year I did. He joined our fraternity when I was in 8th grade.
I somewhat respect cheaters who put a little effort into cheating. Work for it! You won’t believe was this moron did… I have classes 2nd and 3rd period and 6th and 7th period, with the dumbass in question in my 6th period class. Because students in my 2nd and 3rd period often see and talk with students in my later classes, my quiz questions are different for the 2 later periods. This dumbass not only got the answers to the earlier quiz, but had pre-written them on his sheet of paper. When he realized the questions on his quiz were different, he just simply turned the page over and turned that in, complete with the answers from the earlier quiz. As if I wouldn’t notice or something.
When I was in HS, we had an old lazy teacher for Government who would give out a worksheet Monday-Thursday. There was a test on Friday, which was the 4 worksheets again. It was extremely easy to cheat on the "test", you just had to show a modicum of subterfuge to not be called out. Well this girl Nicole sits at her desk blatantly copying answers from the worksheets onto her test. When questioned by the teacher, she said "everybody else in here doing it anyway, damn!" Then we had to learn and couldn't cheat anymore. Nicole blew it.
One of my oldest friends is the Michael Jordan of cheating. He was amazing. Spent hours teaching himself to vomit on command so if he ever got caught with a cheat sheet, he would just vomit on it and then teacher wouldn’t want to touch it. He never even had to use this skill. This was just a backup.
Last day with students was yesterday, but on a flight right now for AP reading starting tomorrow and ending June 9th.
Anyone married/in a relationship with a special education teacher or are a SPED teacher themselves? I am making the switch over to Cross-Cat/Special Education as I enjoy it immensely. While I do have special education experience as an Adaptive Physical Education teacher, I would love to pick someone's brain for advice, how to start the year etc.
I just passed part 1 of 3 for my SPED cert. Mind if I pick their brain depending on how the other two go? *meant pm a couple questions not direct contact lol the above sounds creeperish
Our enrollment is declining and we lost two teachers that combines teach 11 sections of a literacy class. so instead of getting 5 small sections of history/geography. I get 4 and have to teach 1 section of literacy.
and completely unnecessary EVERY core teacher is teaching 4+1 the +1 is either literacy, guided study, or “math guided study” so 11 sections needed to be picked up but there’s 24 teachers. so there’s zero need for me to do it. There’s staff certified in English/language arts that could pick up 11 sections. But that didn’t seem “fair”
Year 15 for me. Got moved from Fine Arts to Career/Technical, which comes with a few headaches, which are far outweighed by the fact my max class size is now 25.
Back in the office today now that I’m admin but school doesn’t start for another month. This is year 9 but my first full year in the admin world
Coworker has a daughter who's attending a big teaching college in Wisconsin. 11 students stood up as future teachers when called upon during the freshman orientation. Shit's fucked
Come join us in college advising. There are a couple former K12 teachers that joined our staff recently
There will be a new pool that arises out of transitions from other careers (like myself), but it’s definitely not encouraging. Hard to be surprised though. Sub-standard pay and excessive expectations are not an ideal combination for anybody who isn’t wholeheartedly committed to being in the profession.
"Do you want to get yelled at by homophobes that don't even live in your school district about the way you manage 30+ hormone addled sociopaths, while dealing with the ever present fear that you'll be murdered by one of your students for about the same money as a garbage truck driver?"
I definitely think the worst of the pandemic-induced lunacy has fallen off. Kids are more settled back into the routine and actually will behave like normal human beings most of the time. Discipline issues are way down.
its been the worst possible start for us lost a longtime sped case manager to ovarian cancer the weekend before we started back up with students and then on monday we had a second grader pass away after getting hit by a car on her bike today was our 5th day of school, hanging on by a thread already
2 days in and it’s going well so far. Fully into Admin this year and it’s been a great change for me. Our biggest issue is a new bill in the state that makes removal of kids from class, for any reason, extremely difficult and wasn’t all that well thought through.
Do you and Rabid live nearby? He just mentioned that happening to a 2nd grader. Fucking heartbreaking.
I’m over it, seems like every week the administration is on my ass about something. - got called to the office because I sent an email to the admin team about requesting coverage to leave early to go to my monthly doctors appointment for my workers comp case. - got called back into the office later that same week because the district was doing a walk through and came to my class and I was sitting down. Once again, I have medical documentation about my work status from my workers comp case that allows me sit. - same meeting, I get questioned as to why I’m giving the scholars a test, when they had a district pre-test the week before and a district benchmark this week.
Had a stabbing happen last week at the high school I'd still be working at had I not been rescued from the system last year. 2 kids hospitalized.