The Educator's Struggle

Surviving the education field the only way I know how: laughing. I'm a school psychologist in Chicagoland. No gifs or images are mine, please don't sue me. Started August 2015.

[advanced-procrastination]

**deep inhale**

**deep exhale**

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People need to calm down

[coffee-teach-wine]

May for teachers

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Apparently teacher appreciation week means parents in the teachers lounge all week.

How is that showing appreciation? Drop off the baked goods and goooo

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When the ABC countdown starts

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My horoscope said there would be drama at work around the 7th

I mean, I work at a school filled with middle aged women.

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By the end of spring break

[mamafox18]

Terrified.

I have to be “highly qualified” in order to hold my position. Like, that’s a real thing in education. I was required to take credits in US history, world history, non-western history, economics, anthropology, sociology, psychology, political science, and geography, not to mention all of my credits in education. But apparently, $250 million in donations and no actual experience in public education makes you highly qualified to be Sect. of Education. Shame on the Senate.

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This, and then more of this.

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Betsy Devos

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Staying late at school

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My perception of the PTO

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By the 100th day of school

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Having 10 open sped evaluations and five pending domains

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Getting a better than expected summative eval

[leebeeloves]

EDD: gif your favorite show to watch again and again.

[lovelikesummer]

[mstangteaches]

[lolobee8288]

[heathersmusings]

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EDD: Describe your relationship with your significant other using ONLY gifs

[apileofgoodthings11]

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[girlcanteach]

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[hisnamewasbeanni]

[samanthainsecondary]

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Private school psychologists are making my life hell.

Paying for a diagnosis is not worth it. Diagnosing a student with a cognitive disorder based on one below subtest across multiple assessments is not ethical. Not getting input from the school for a diagnosis of specific learning disability is despicable. 

Thank you. This rant is complete.

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When parents are worse than their kid