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I'm sorry folks, but I need some place to vent, and I feel as though I know quite a few of you, and don't feel that you will mind too much...But, warning!!! This is me letting off steam, and if you don't want to read it, stop now and go somewhere else...Thanks before hand...

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Today I feel as though it has been the day from 7734! I have been sore and have muscles cramping all over. This I could have handled I suppose...But, hold on let's back up to yesterday when I had a meeting after school.
Someone who is supposed to be helping me, turned into the firing squad...she was supposed to tell me what was going to happen, did she? NOPE!!! So here I go into this meeting, not prepared, not having what I needed, not knowing what to expect...Did I look professional? NOPE!!! Then this person had the nerve after the meeting to say, "Well, I guess after a few of these you'll figure out how to be prepared..." What the heck is that supposed to mean?
So back to today. Same person comes into my room going to do my book inventory...yeah right, she was a disruption, and I feel as though she was nosing around. Then demanding every five minutes to know where such and such is...
So yes, the kids are wound up (we have 1.5 days left at this point till the holidays, yippee) I have one who I could nail to the floor and he would still disrupt and be able to disturb those across the room. Then there is one child that I feel is just wasting our oxygen supply. He doesn't listen, doesn't do anything even when you are standing on top of him (ok so now that is a vivid picture I'm sure)...I had to call him 6 times to just get him to look at me, and then he continued annoying the child beside him...ok so we have this visual too?
Before our team meeting today I told our "team leader" and "my teaching partner" that I needed to run to my truck, that I'd be right there. "Oh no problem we'll wait." Well, obviously they didn't wait, and they had changed rooms without telling me. I walk in and they just keep on working on some numbers we need. So I end up at another set of tables/desks, because there wasn't room for me to sit at the set of tables...So I'm trying to look over everyone's shoulders to figure out what numbers they were working on...The above mentioned person kept saying, well, **** (me) has blank for this number (like I was putting her out of her way)...so basically being ignored was the way to go for the meeting. Did I tell you that I still don't know exactly what I need to do with my information? I wouldn't have gotten this one sheet of information if I hadn't grabbed it as soon as my advising teacher was finished...
This afternoon was worse than this morning with the kids. I have one father who doesn't care, has the nerve to tell me his son is my problem at school (great attitude!) One mother checks caller id and won't answer if it's the school, or my personal phone, make that two. I got seriously questioned about why 2 of my kids still don't have glasses (one broke them in sept. the other lost hers in oct.) It's my fault I can't get ahold of one mom, and it's my fault the other mom can't afford a pair until income tax money comes in...
The final straw this afternoon was when I saw another teacher filling out a time sheet. I asked her why she was filling one out (being nosy, I know) she tells me it's from her tutorials...I asked her if we did tutoring did we have to fill it out to get paid...guess what we do! Did the lead teacher or other teacher, heck anyone tell me this? So apparently I've been working for free after school, and this was do to the lead teacher forcing me to do it anyways; not that I don't want to help my kids, but heck when is there time to do the stuff that needs doing naturally as a teacher? The other teams with new teachers have picked up the extra kids so the new teacher didn't have to. (the one day I didn't have something to do right after school. As a new teacher you end up with so much to do after school it's crazy, but you do it.) That was it, I lost it in the office, and started crying...great big baby me, crying in the office...
Ms. Skinner has decided (she's the one filling in the time sheet) she'll keep me up to date on what I need to do, and help me if she can. If I can get the prescription for the one girl's glasses we are going to go to wal-mart and buy the glasses for the child, and they will not leave the school. Her idea, and she said she would pay for them, but heck I can split the price if we can go for the cheaper frames.

Well, I think that is it, I do feel better thanks ya'll who continued reading. I'm leaving this place now and am going to take little bit to dance (guess that gives away who I am doesn't it?) Then I think I need a really strong drink...hmmmm(sorry Adam, and moderators, but I'm gonna say it) A huge margarita might be in order for tonight, or something else just as potent, kill the pain for a bit. No I won't drink then drive. No I won't over do it. And yes, I am of age; if you gotta know I'm 30 (that really hurts to admit, but I am). So I'll talk laters, probably goofy, but oh well....

Emma

Last edited by emma at 15-Dec-2004 16:24

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

*mixes emma up a nice strong melafix*
And that's why I could never be a teacher....as much as I loved school, and had been told a million times by a million people that I'd be great as a teacher (kids to me are just amazing)...it's the ones like that *points* that makes me go nuts ! Unfortunatly it's not just kids either

*hugs* stay strong, you're almost to the holidays and when you get the kids back hopefully they'll be sooo bored from break they'll be willing to pay attention for once...even if it is only for 5 minutes

*mutters about silly lazy kids that don't pay attention in class and waste the rest of our time* ...funny they seemed to be even worse in uni, where they were actually paying to be able to go .....ah well guess everyone knows I'm a Hermonie now if you didnt' before.

EDIT: Ah yeah, almost forgot, you'll want a few of these

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Last edited by Babelfish at 15-Dec-2004 16:38[/font]

Emma. You are doing well. I think it's great that you are helping get the glasses for that one girl. Kids can be a pain. I've been lucky that most the ones I've baby-sat have been pretty good. VBS is a different story. I will never help teach the youngest class again. Keep on truckin'

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this reminds me of my brief career in teaching basically the same situation as you, except i was in an alternative school, so i had no rights to go above anyone's head for any kind of appeal i was supposed to be science and my partner was supposed to be math, but after about 2 weeks they inform me that i'm supposed to be doing BOTH and my partner is supposed to just sit there and pick her nose i guess anyway, they decided that they didn't like me, made up some bulls--- story to fire me and then came up with all this stuff that i thought i had told in confidence to different teachers on separate occasions (what really ticked me off in the end). so the upshot was that i was basically being spied on every moment of the day i was there, and at first i thought i wanted to fight to keep that job until i really sat down and realized what they were doing. good for you that you have someone willing to help out and keep you up to speed because oftentimes it seems like you will just drown in all the stress and rigamarole involved just to do your job properly

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"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman

*huggs*

Thats a rotten day/week. Teaching can be so darn cliquey at times.

you are there to teach, not mind glasses. DUH!




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