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#211 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Jan 2016
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Is your neighbor still a messy prick?
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#212 |
Supporter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Who knows?
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#213 |
It was not a fair catch
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Correcting papers
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#214 |
It was not a fair catch
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Correcting papers
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#215 | |
It was not a fair catch
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Correcting papers
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Kids forgot how to do school. And now that they are back-many are uninterested. They claim there is no need to learn anything. Technology did this. Then the addiction to games and social media. Barely can communicate with each other. I can lock up student computers-which I need to do to get them to listen. School policies that allow and even expect disincentive. |
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#216 |
It was not a fair catch
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Correcting papers
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Still a prick.
Stuck his foot in his mouth the other day on the facebook page. A neighbor has a kid graduating and has a reception Friday night. Grandpa was passing out invitations. Dumbass saw him on the door bell camera. Asked if he was a salesman and what was he selling. He lives two doors down and you do not know who he is. Grandpa sits in the garage everyday and watches the cars go by. He is a great guy. |
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#217 |
#RIPAce
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: So Cal
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I landed at a small school in a much more conservative district. They still celebrate Columbus Day! My biggest challenge is building all the plans because I'm the only social science teacher at the high school level. 10th world, 11th us, 12th civics/econ, plus one elective.
Once I get those plans laid out, I'll be in great shape. |
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#218 |
It was not a fair catch
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Correcting papers
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**** you Wal Mart and Pennys for the subversive back to school ads in July
And a special **** you for Target for wiping out the summer stuff by July 5 and changing it over to Back to School July 6. |
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#219 | |
Mod Team
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Valley of the hot as ****
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My son goes back to school on August 7th and Montana goes back to school August 28th. Here they get a week off for Fall and Spring break, which is maybe where it adds in? What gives on the short summer? |
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#220 | |
World's Best Boss
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Bronco Country
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The main idea of it is that it fights the "summer slip". Basically there's a ton of data that longer summers cause learning loss, especially among elementary students. There's been an argument for a long time that if elementary teachers didn't have to "re-teach" in the first quarters of every year, learning outcomes could be improved across the board. Anecdotally, teachers say longer fall and spring breaks help with burnout for a position that is experiencing major staffing shortages around the country. Just my two cents. I personally am fine with either approach as long as I'm out before June (85 degree classrooms are no bueno -- and I had to deal with that the last month of school in my last two years). |
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#221 | |
Mod Team
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Valley of the hot as ****
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In AZ they provide an optional "donation list" as classrooms are supposed to be fully supplied by AZ law. We always make sure to give as much as possible. The education system here is near the bottom of the barrel. I don't know how you teacher's do it but thank you. |
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#222 |
It was not a fair catch
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Correcting papers
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Public schools in MN cant start until the day after labor day.
We start before since it is private. We have the normal holidays off but have 2 days off in October for the Union meetings. 22 years-I have never been there. There is never a schedule that will make everyone happy. Thanks Lew. It is a struggle and getting worse. My old district had guns brought to school 3x this year. No one is really taking responsibility for it. One was at a old friends school. He did not report it. District swept it under the rug. |
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#223 | ||
World's Best Boss
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Bronco Country
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You're not the first teacher I've come across who said they're also seeing this, and it's a terrifying trend. Quote:
I mostly do what I do so that students can come in and have a safe place to exist. I have my room open over lunch and I get a lot of kids who just come in to 3D design, some kids who I don't even have as students and others who don't even seem to like me but seem to like having a place to be. Middle School was by far the worst time of my life (I found a home here during that time, if that tell you anything), but I got through it in large part thanks to teachers who gave a **** and nowadays I just try to pay that forward. Last year was a challenge for a lot of reasons, but I was able to get a great job teaching STEM closer to home (those teaching gigs can be hard to come by). I'd love to one day be teaching in the building my kids are going to school in, fingers crossed I can make it that long! Last edited by Chiefspants; 07-15-2023 at 03:32 PM.. |
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#224 | ||
Mod Team
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Valley of the hot as ****
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Lots of charter schools here but we are doing good old public education in a good school district. There's something to be said for interacting with all kinds of kids. |
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#225 |
It was not a fair catch
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Correcting papers
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I dont blame guns for the issue. I blame the parents. We know this can happen. It is ok to frisk your kids before they leave. If you are about education, you will do what ever you can to help your kids succeed. Even if that means they fail.
If you know what I mean. |
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