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it's been a brutal stretch starting with last thursday when i had to take the girl across the border for her mcat. there wasn't a seat left in the state by the time she got registered. which meant that i had to take a day off and leave sub plans and spend six hours grading today to get caught up.
spent five hours friday writing notes for my paper due in two weeks and i had to spend a whole day saturday at a workshop for a class i am not teaching next year.
i also found out when i checked online that i had five essay questions to write answers for for the test i had in class tonight. that was 2000 words.
and sunday night saw my youngest, who'd been sick the day before miscalculate how low he was before dinner and end up giving himself too much humalog which sent him down almost below 40. he was incoherent and barely able to walk by the time we got him to the hospital.
and then today, my gallant leader sent an email he received from a parent to all of us complaining about how teachers need to learn to teach with what they have in their classrooms, not assume parents have deep pockets for computers and technology to help their kids 'buy' grades. what the fuck?
even though this wasn't to me from one of my kids or parents, i have to say that i have never as a teacher told a kid they can't use a computer in my room after school. some come in at lunch to do that. there are all kinds of things you can borrow from our media center or the public library if you really want to. and really, given standards and demands on kids coming out of high school for jobs and college, can you really expect a teacher not to ask a kid to do something outside of class with technology?
and btw, lady, i don't and can't teach with what my district gives me in my classroom. that's why i spend hundreds of dollars on stuff i need but can't get from them to educate your kid.
spent five hours friday writing notes for my paper due in two weeks and i had to spend a whole day saturday at a workshop for a class i am not teaching next year.
i also found out when i checked online that i had five essay questions to write answers for for the test i had in class tonight. that was 2000 words.
and sunday night saw my youngest, who'd been sick the day before miscalculate how low he was before dinner and end up giving himself too much humalog which sent him down almost below 40. he was incoherent and barely able to walk by the time we got him to the hospital.
and then today, my gallant leader sent an email he received from a parent to all of us complaining about how teachers need to learn to teach with what they have in their classrooms, not assume parents have deep pockets for computers and technology to help their kids 'buy' grades. what the fuck?
even though this wasn't to me from one of my kids or parents, i have to say that i have never as a teacher told a kid they can't use a computer in my room after school. some come in at lunch to do that. there are all kinds of things you can borrow from our media center or the public library if you really want to. and really, given standards and demands on kids coming out of high school for jobs and college, can you really expect a teacher not to ask a kid to do something outside of class with technology?
and btw, lady, i don't and can't teach with what my district gives me in my classroom. that's why i spend hundreds of dollars on stuff i need but can't get from them to educate your kid.
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Date: 2009-05-27 04:07 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-05-28 01:15 am (UTC)From:but some do. one of my colleagues had her personal file handed over by the board to a lawyer for a parent who wanted her to change her darling son's grade. except when all was said and done, the kid had done nothing he was supposed to and lied to his folks about it, and then created his final power point presentation weeks after the trimester ended and tried to get a passing grade for that.
unbelievably, the board upheld the failing grade, but my friend was just fried by the experience. it's not the kind of thing that really inspires teachers.
sorry about the continued rant. i'm apparently still kinds torqued about it all.