Not a good 24 hours... I'm mad and sad UPDATED ON PAGE 2
OK, so some of you know the drama/trauma I delt with yesterday. The FMing back and forth and e-mailing, researching, etc. took over THREE HOURS of my work day. Thank you so much to all of the girls who took time out to communicate with me.
All of this while I was trying to grade the Global History Regents exams that came in. We have 200 kids in the class, every kids writes two essays and every essay must be graded by two teachers. for the first time in my teaching career I could barely concentrate on them and still can't. I was here at school grading until 10:30 pm. and they MUST be done today.
I went home, FH was sleeping and barely slept a wink all night, really bad dreams. Until yesterday, I was a cool as a cucumber about my wedding now I am not.
Despite the fact that one of my colleagues was chosen NY State Teacher of the Year two days ago our community voted down our school budget for a second time. The increase would have been on average $60 a year and we are the second lowest paid district in Nassau. A good friend of mine just lost her job after 8 years working here.
Sorry girls. I am sooooooo stressed and none of it is my doing. FH was so sweet to me this morning, he says he wishes I could just quit and find something else and I told him... not so easy when you have taught in the same district for 9 years. I put in at least 60 hours a week and no one, except FH, seems to notice or care.
I think the combination of that and the other drama from yesterday is really affecting my ability to think straight.
Can I get some hugs?
TIA
All of this while I was trying to grade the Global History Regents exams that came in. We have 200 kids in the class, every kids writes two essays and every essay must be graded by two teachers. for the first time in my teaching career I could barely concentrate on them and still can't. I was here at school grading until 10:30 pm. and they MUST be done today.
I went home, FH was sleeping and barely slept a wink all night, really bad dreams. Until yesterday, I was a cool as a cucumber about my wedding now I am not.
Despite the fact that one of my colleagues was chosen NY State Teacher of the Year two days ago our community voted down our school budget for a second time. The increase would have been on average $60 a year and we are the second lowest paid district in Nassau. A good friend of mine just lost her job after 8 years working here.
Sorry girls. I am sooooooo stressed and none of it is my doing. FH was so sweet to me this morning, he says he wishes I could just quit and find something else and I told him... not so easy when you have taught in the same district for 9 years. I put in at least 60 hours a week and no one, except FH, seems to notice or care.
I think the combination of that and the other drama from yesterday is really affecting my ability to think straight.
Can I get some hugs?
TIA
