As for your one inch…feh. We got a foot and it’s not going away for a while. More is predicted for Thursday. Anyone caught singing “White Christmas” or “Winter Wonderland” will be beaten and left for dead in a snowdrift.
For a second I thought you meant the animal bobcat, not the machine bobcat.
I think I’ve come to the same conclusion as your daughter, FCM. I can’t get behind the philosophy of teaching these days. My license may as well stay expired. I much prefer the after-school program I work with on Thursdays to actual teaching, it seems like they do more education than the schools do. Feh. Soon it will be January and I’ll be able to put my plans into motion regarding more volunteering time and possible work scenarios.
And so it begins.
We just got robocalled.
By the school.
No school tomorrow.
Kind of makes sense—our condo complex has gotten exactly one pass from our contractor, and there is a shovel wide path from the buildings front door. None of the driveways have been touched. I suspect that the association president will need to have his phone off the hook shortly, if it is not already.
**Spaz **- she also confessed to me that she majored in education because she thought it’d be an easy degree to get. My daughter, the slacker… She did like working with kids at summer camp and tutoring and such, but the classroom stuff, the emphasis on the standardized tests, the parents whose babies would *never *do such a terrible thing… I think it’s all come to a head and she’s had enough - after only a year and a half. Oh well.
Daughter’s school break has begun, so this snow didn’t affect them. But our local district is supposed to go Monday and Tuesday. They were plowing the bus lanes at the nearby middle school - I guess they’re planning to be open tomorrow.
Howdy Y’all! After churchification and goin’ out for N.O.L. I got productive and defilthyfied da cave. I’s tahred and have to work tomorrow so Ima go lie upon the bed and watch tv for a while and then go sleepy bye shortly.
BioRosie the pics are cool. Makes me glad I’m not there.
Glad the ouchie feels better BBBobbio.
Yay for men ridin’ on bobcats MOOOOOOM! I feel for your daughter and understand. I started out life as a teacher and soon realized 40 yrs. of all that bs was not in my future. I quit after a year and a half.
Alien I take it you have no desire to run for Association President?
Spaz awwwwwwwww… the baby pig is so keeeeeeeeeyooooooooote!
**swampy **- you were a teacher? :eek: What grade of little minds did you warp? What did you teach? I’m guessing not shop or art or physics. ummmmm, social studies? English lit? Wait - I know - interior design!!!
I’s thirsty - gonna go find some sort of beverage. And empty the dryer.
I taught a combination fifth and sixth grade self-contained class. I had 26 ten and eleven year old ankle biters to contend with. They weren’t so bad. The bureaucracy of the school system on the other hand was the biggest load of absolute bs evah!!!111 So, I taught adult education for a couple of years after that which wasn’t too bad. Then I worked with people with disabilities for many years after that. Now I be in the corporate world. My work history is, to say the least, varied.
Swampy, not if you tied me to a tree and stuck a lit bomb in my mouth.
My legal beagle is still chaseing them and their insurance agent for that ‘minor’ flood when a pipe let go.
I did 6 years of 3rd and 6th; 3 years public and 3 private. I had to leave the public school or risk doing bad things to the principal and Superintendent ----- who just happened to be the principals uncle. This – human being – insisted that if we needed to call a parent we use the pay phone in the hall so there wouldn’t be a record of the call. And he kept the door to his office locked. My class sizes were a good bit bigger; the school district was screwing things as bad as they could to avoid being included in a court-ordered merger.
The private school I LOVED!!! It was innercity, minority and disadvantaged catholic, and the greatest kids, co-workers and parents a person could have. Problem was the pay kept me basically at food stamp wages had I not been classified as a professional. Usually I did the math/science block for both grades and another teacher/Sister did the language block. Had it not been for some health issues (minor cardiac problem) I may have stayed there and stayed teaching while basically starving. It was that good a place.
Adult education? Not for me. I did one class at a community college and decided that rated somewhere above honeydipper on my list of “things I have done” but not by much.
