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like it's March already
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Same shit, different year.
Our district is going through more and worse growing pains than ever before. I was promised curriculum that is now being withheld and debated by our School Board, and without it I can't start math groups for the kids. Our social skills curriculum finally arrived, and I'm happy for that.
We have new personnel in almost all key positions surrounding my job: principal, vice principal, speech therapist, director of student services, school counselor; and our school psychologist will leave in October to have a baby. Naturally, the fall chaos is amplified geometrically.
I got to a point today where I just put on my running shoes and ran trails for 20 minutes. I needed to blow off steam. And the cool thing is that it worked. The intellectual anger didn't go away, but I was calmer and had fewer physical symptoms. I even got a shower, now that the desks were moved out of the shower room. I plan to do this running thing pretty often. It's the only way so far that I've been able to clear my head. Of course, I've found many ways to banish the thoughts, but having a beer in the middle of the school day somehow seems unworkable. Besides, I want to feel more alert, not more fuzzy.
I told myself that I would do what I was able to do given the circumstances that would be foist upon me. So I'm working on what to do if the math curriculum doesn't appear. Beg? Use the general ed stuff that I already know won't work? Photocopy old curriculum and use that? I've only got a few days to decide, and the sad thing is that kids lose out. That's how teachers get taken advantage of: they will work their asses off doing things that they should not do (or shouldn't have to do), because when someone else drops the ball, teachers can't stand to see the kids get the short end of things.
Grrrrrrr.
Deep breath. There are good things: I can get going on reading, writing and social skills. Early intervention literacy is in LMT's capable hands. The lunchroom won't fall apart and isn't my problem anyway. Thanks be to God. Hosannah in the highest. The angels are singing.
And I have my birthday party this weekend. If I can just get through tomorrow . . .
Our district is going through more and worse growing pains than ever before. I was promised curriculum that is now being withheld and debated by our School Board, and without it I can't start math groups for the kids. Our social skills curriculum finally arrived, and I'm happy for that.
We have new personnel in almost all key positions surrounding my job: principal, vice principal, speech therapist, director of student services, school counselor; and our school psychologist will leave in October to have a baby. Naturally, the fall chaos is amplified geometrically.
I got to a point today where I just put on my running shoes and ran trails for 20 minutes. I needed to blow off steam. And the cool thing is that it worked. The intellectual anger didn't go away, but I was calmer and had fewer physical symptoms. I even got a shower, now that the desks were moved out of the shower room. I plan to do this running thing pretty often. It's the only way so far that I've been able to clear my head. Of course, I've found many ways to banish the thoughts, but having a beer in the middle of the school day somehow seems unworkable. Besides, I want to feel more alert, not more fuzzy.
I told myself that I would do what I was able to do given the circumstances that would be foist upon me. So I'm working on what to do if the math curriculum doesn't appear. Beg? Use the general ed stuff that I already know won't work? Photocopy old curriculum and use that? I've only got a few days to decide, and the sad thing is that kids lose out. That's how teachers get taken advantage of: they will work their asses off doing things that they should not do (or shouldn't have to do), because when someone else drops the ball, teachers can't stand to see the kids get the short end of things.
Grrrrrrr.
Deep breath. There are good things: I can get going on reading, writing and social skills. Early intervention literacy is in LMT's capable hands. The lunchroom won't fall apart and isn't my problem anyway. Thanks be to God. Hosannah in the highest. The angels are singing.
And I have my birthday party this weekend. If I can just get through tomorrow . . .
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