Today, my daughter goes back to her classroom, getting things ready for her next batch of 7th graders. They return on the 24th. Kids here start on the 19th. In one city near DC, kids have already gone back. We’re creeping closer to year-round school, which seems a good idea to me. But then, I’m not a school kid. 
Nettie, if you stay, you probably will have trouble with the two posers. If the supervisor knows about them, and they start acting out after your promotion, they could be gone in a flash. Document every encounter with them, record conversations if possible. If you’re going to stay with the devil you know, stock up on the right equipment.
OTOH, there’s a lot to be said for trying something new, if you’re not a scaredy cat like me. I don’t handle change well, so I stayed in my department for 32 years. Looking back, I wish I hadn’t passed up the offer made to me in my second year. I’d have been on the leading edge of the tech Revolution had I taken it.
So flip a coin, make a long pros and cons list, come in here and vent, talk to trusted friends and family, and figure out what will be best for you in the long run.
Or a teacher, apparently.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 75 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 95 and hawt for the day. Also, I am takin’ a day off irk. It’s a “sick day” planned cause I have a dentist appointment at eight-thirty, and an appointment with the shrink at one. Thus, I requested a “sick day” to deal with medical stuff. It just seemed easier that way.
Nettie there will be troublemakers in any department which I’m sure you already know. If you really like dealin’ with people I say go with the new department. Just my .02.
Ok, that’s all I got. I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, purtification must commence. One must look presentable before bein’ seen in public after all.
Happy Hump Day Y’all!
I’ve been more in a mental fog lately.
Missed the piss out of y’all
Up, caffeinated, working closing shift tonight at the Garner store, so I’ll get home at 10. Then be back at work at 0500.
: flings boneless, skinness frozen chicken thighs at Moooommmmm!!! : 
APES! : tacklehug :
Nettie, one plus in moving, you won’t get snark from coworkers because you used to be equal ,and are now supervising them.
Greetings (I’m a bit of newbie here). I know what you mean, I got back from a long vacation in April and it’s just been in the past week or two that I feel like my three brain cells are all clicking more or less in synch, and I’m doing and planning things that just got-backburnered for ‘later’. Not depressed, just–foggy (excellent word).
Nettie, regarding your choice, sometimes it just has to come from the gut. 30 years or so ago, I had the choice of staying at a Government job in Indiana that I knew how to do, but with modest career advancement, or take a job I knew nothing about 200 miles away in St. Louis. Took me two days, conversations with my family, and lots of thinking…and I made the move.
Worked out for me; although in retrospect it might have screwed me over too (the job I had was miserable; but after 8 months I got transferred into another area and I’ve been there nearly 30 years).
What all that means is: All you can do is make what seems like the best choice at the time, and then hope like hell it was the best choice. Life ain’t really fair that way, but it’s all we have.
Best wishes.
School started in North Alabama last week; 90F and I hope the buildings are air-conditioned. Seventh grade can be fun; beats the heck out of High School. What does your daughter teach, FCM?
My elementary school wasn’t air conditioned when I was there (that has since been rectified as per state regulations). Whenever it got above 93 American, we got sent home early. I got sent home to a house with no a/c, but we had lots of fans and shade trees. Plus all my toys were there. 
Today’s the day an insurance meeting interrupts my vacation. However, Detailed AGM has offered to give me a ride to the Top Brass Outpost so I don’t have to drive Polly Subaru down Deathtrap Highway. (The car, like my childhood, is also unairconditioned. I need to take it in sometime over the weekend to rectify that situation as per state regulations.)
She teaches science - a large part of the curriculum is astronomy and geology, but the last topic of the year is sex ed. She says she spends the first day of that section just repeating “penis-vagina-penis-vagina…” telling the kids to get the giggles out of their system. Quite a change from my day when they separated the boys from the girls, and we got the lecture about periods. No idea what the boys learned.
Anyway [commence brag] my daughter is also the 7th grade science team lead. I helped in her classroom a few years back when she taught 5th grade science, and she really is a very good teacher. Her classroom management, her planning, and her interactions with the kids really impressed me. Sadly, she talks about getting out of teaching because of all the BS they have to deal with - the politically mandated testing and nonsense like that. It would be a shame…
OK, I’m showered, dressed, and thinking about doing something productive. There’s a watermelon that needs to be cut up, and some dirties that can be loaded in the dishwasher. A little motivation couldn’t hurt.
Happy Hump Day!
It looks to be a pretty day, the sun is shining and a good breeze is blowing in the windows. Supposed to get up to 88 later, more in line with what August is supposed to be.
FCM as all the schools in AA County are being re-done A/C is being added. I think that is one step towards year round school.
I had an internet friend who worked in the school system in CA where the kids went to school year round. Weird 6? weeks on and 2 weeks off schedule, but not all the kids were on the same schedule, so that any given time 25% of the kids were out. Kids from the same family would have the same schedule.
We go back to the college today to get his books. If I order them online we still have to go pick them up and I have to pay for them in advance. If he goes in to get them the money will come out of the grant. I’m surprised they don’t mail the books if you order them online. AACC was doing that years ago. When I went back to school I never had to set foot on the campus except for the class that wanted a presentation. Even the armpit had a testing center, although I always went to the one out by the mall/casino for the easier parking.
I’ve got something going on with my hands. My palms and fingers itch. My finger tips are red and sore, it hurts around my nails. The webbing between my fingers is red and scaly.
Weird, maybe some kind of allergy.
We have school from Sept to June & then 8-9 weeks of camp, either day or overnight in the summer. Therefore, there are two weeks in the summer, Xmas week, & Easter/Spring break week + the day here or there. Much more manageable for working parents of younger kids who aren’t old enough to be left home alone for 8-10 hours a day for days on end.
It’d be interesting to see them try year-round schooling around here. It would render the entire camp & swim club industries obsolete, as well as bankrupt many of the shore businesses if families aren’t down there for the summer & they don’t have the HSers to employ. A massive gov’t unemployment scheme?
Throws soft tomatoes at doggio! :eek:
I survived the dentist. Now all I have to do is survive the shrink.
I put a hunk o’ beast in the slow cooker before I left this mornin’. Shortly I shall add some N.O.T. and carrots. I shall cook some lima beans for the greenery and make some corn bread. YUM! OYKW does not have an evenin’ monitorin’ tonight so I get to see him. YUM!
Just finished chunking up my watermelon. It’s disappointing - not nearly as sweet as it should be. Also, not as red. Guess it’s not a very good watermelon season this year.
Alas…
It seems like year round school will throw a wrench into a lot of things.
When I was a kid we were friends with the kids in the same block, what happens when everybody is on a different schedule.
How do you do summer vacations if one of the parents works for a company where you don’t get to choose your vacation days and the days the company gives off doesn’t line up with the kids’ weeks off?
I worked for a company where everybody got 3 weeks vacation to start. That vacation was the last week of July, the first week of August and the week between Christmas and New Year’s. The company shut down those weeks, if you wanted different weeks you took them without pay.
the only exception was that Orthodox Jews who worked in the office could work the week between Christmas and New Years and use those days for the Jewish holidays.
As you said it will have to affect summer resort areas.
I’m sure though 50 years from now summer vacations will be a thing of the past, just like out houses and horses and buggies.
Perhaps there was not enough rain.
Actually, we had a lot of rain this year, which is why I expected better. It’s definitely drippy - I had to clean the floor and counter after cutting it up - but not too flavorful.
I don’t know. Back when I taught I was in favor of the more (back then) German system of a shorter school day but year-round. If I had been paid enough (I made as much during the summer as I did teaching) I would have gone for something like that like a shot.
Great to see you back though!
Year-round schooling would be great in this country, we have a lot less in the way of summer camps and suchlike. It would also stop the travel companies hiking up the prices in July and August because they know that’s the only time parents can take their kids away somewhere. One of the arguments about adhering to British Summer Time was related to Scottish schoolkids going to and from school in the dark during the winter - if they had their schooling spread out more evenly through the year, there would be less perceived danger to the schoolies.
Also, now that people are far more mobile and foreign travel is a much more common practice, you can pretty much find a sunshine holiday destination at any time of year if you’re willing and able to travel. Gone are the days when you had to confine your holiday to the couple of weeks of the year when it might be (in the UK) slightly less wet and miserable than the other 50 weeks of the year.
Pretty much nothing. Seriously, while that talk was going on we were just turned loose on the playground. My first school seemed to feel that anything having to do with sex was just the girls responsibility/concern and boys were left to learn the old fashioned way (from lies and tall stories around the bus stop) until 10th grade or so.