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Haven’t posted in a really long time. Got married and went to Italy over the summer. It was the best experience of my life. Saw some amazing art I will never forget.
My husband's work had a family event today where we got to tour the building, logo swag, and waffle bar.
It's a "modern" office - open floor plan, standing desks and flexible cubicle seating, visually pleasing, etc. But I just cannot get over the difference between that and a teacher's world.
They have little kitchens and seating areas dotted throughout. Snack shacks. Sleep pods. Free coffee. White noise. Meeting rooms. Built in tech. Flexible works areas. Everything is clean and functional and useful.
Even the white boards are better than ours. Glassy surface, no tray because the markers have little slots in the side/behind the surface. Some of our teachers still have chalk boards and if we want new whiteboards it's not uncommon to be told just to get a shower backing board at Menards.
The disparity hit me on a few levels.
What do professional/white collar/business parents feel when they walk into our decades old buildings of brown walls and 90s tools? How can they see us as competent adults ready to prepare their kids for the future.
Are we preparing kids? Should we be? We want them to have "21st century skills" but give them a 1960s floor plan. Does it matter that way?
How do you attract competant teachers when they see a dingy break room with two broken microwaves compared to that? Through in their amazing m/paternity policies, insurance, perks, tuition reimbursement......Heck I'm tempted to switch fields everytime I go there.
I couldn't get over the whiteboards. The hubs was like, well we do a school supply donation every year, maybe I can do a proposal for teacher supplies, make a list. And like I have no idea? Basic supplies seems...sad. But asking for new like furniture seems a bit much. Though those desks with the whiteboard surface that flip up so kids can share their work...ugh gimme. But this is a building that just remodeled and purchased new desks and whatnot for their entire workforce so...
Seriously the difference between public sector tightfistedness and private sector resources. It's just crazy.
And then there's the fact that two thirds of our student population swings the other way, where our school looks amazing because their families have nothing and the jobs they see are heavy labor or other physically difficult things.
not to like make a huge fucking post about shit that’s been talked to death but it really genuinely scares me how many straight girls think it’s normal to just… not like your partner. like they think it’s normal and okay for their boyfriends to openly think they’re stupid and annoying and to be totally derisive about their interests and for them not to be friends or have things in common or enjoy each other’s personalities or encourage their interests? you are supposed to be friends with the person you’re in love with. you are supposed to want to talk to them about the things that make them happy. you do not have to settle for people who treat your entire personality as a burden outside of what you do to cater to them.
I’m a woman married to a man who I not only love but also like a whole lot. I’m regularly horrified by the comments I get when I tell other married women that I’m looking forward to hanging out with him. “Oh, just give it a few years.” “You’ve only been married for five years, you’re practically newlyweds.” These are both real things I’ve been told more than once. Listen, I have been with this man for nine years. Nearly a decade. The so called “honeymoon phase” has long worn off. I still enjoy his company. I still want to be around him. And I am infuriated when women tell me that one day I won’t like him anymore. Do I still need alone time occasionally? Of course! I don’t want to spend all my waking moments with him. But I don’t ever want to dread being around him, which I feel like I see in other married women a lot.
About to get married next week. We’ve already been together for over 5 1/2 years and have lived together practically that entire time. I still love spending time with him more than anyone else. Do we argue over who is going to clean the kitty litter? Yeah. Do we also have discussions over who we want to be the next Democratic nominee for President? Also yes. He’s my favorite person to spend time with.
Maybe like a barn or Home Depot? Like home repair/building stuff? Or something with animals? Australia has weird animals like you could probably buy a koala or something. Also because of the fence. Not a restaurant Bc what kinda restaraunt has a fence like that around it.......
Welcome to my state! Thanks public education.....not. Sat through test training billshit today and all I could think was “why? Why do we put kids through this? These tests are meaningless.”
And I think more and more about going to private school where none of this bullshit happens.
I am abt to lose my fuckin mind because I happened upon this gender reveal party. and like it’s soo over the top expensive
And like I’m like. Oh great, a horse themed gender reveal party.
complete with like … just truly excessive foods and of course, themed cocktails
and this sign which like… the fragility of like *not* italicizing the word ‘colt’. Like imagine being this weird abt gender
with like, a bucket that eventually ‘revealed’ the gender
But like… the picture that really just completely undid me, for this party which surely was more money than many weddings -
it’s not a horse themed gender reveal party. It’s a gender reveal party FOR A HORSE. I can’t even like imagine the life that would lead to hosting a gender reveal party for a not-yet-born horse. Think abt getting an invitation to this. the cis are at it again.
I never realized how globally iconic the american road trip was until I lived abroad and people asked me about it
like I remember saying once ‘I’ll miss the ocean here :(’ (I live in the middle of the US) and my South African friend was like “??? won’t you just road trip to go see it? Don’t you road trip everywhere?’ and I was like, ‘I mean, yes, yeh. I can’t deny that.’ and they’d nod their head like ‘that’s exactly as it should be you funky little american, that’s how it is’
like, it never occurred to me other people didn’t frequently jump in their car and traverse the great straight and endless roads of your huge-ass corn-and-cow country for hours on end for fun
much less people around the world were like strongly associating us with it, like ‘americans and their cars and their hijinks and their coming-of-age driving tales, yes’
Suicidal people deserve better than to be told the main reason they shouldn’t kill themselves is because of how it might effect others. Suicidal people deserve love and help, not guilt trips. Suicidal people deserve to feel like their life is worth living, for their own sake… for their own happiness, their own experiences, their own possibilities, their own future.
I’m on the committee for a conference in our district. I arrived at 6:02 yesterday morning to start set up. We worked until 1. Then I ran errands, had dinner with my mom, and went to see the musical at my old school. It was a good day. Really good. But I was “on” all day and exhausted. I slept in today, did nothing all day and then finally did the groceries at 5. Since then all I’ve mages to do is eat chipotle and watch old Kardashian episodes on Hulu. I just started a load of laundry. At 9 pm. I need to clean the kitchen still, and make lunch for tomorrow. I didn’t grade papers or vacuum. I think the real Sunday night blues is this feeling of how Can I possibly be ready for work again when I feel like I’ve barely had time to recover from a week of work?
I feel like all I have time for is recovering from work by lounging and napping...and my house stays messy and I don’t do laundry. But I also have nerve damage from shingles I got a month ago from stress...from work...at 30. So I don’t feel too bad about it. Walking and standing are still hard. I literally roll myself around my classroom in my computer chair.
Clay can be overwhelming. Honestly it’s been one of the things that has taken me the most years to try to figure out how do I manage this. So here are my tips from what I have learned after 7 years.
First- use CARDBOARD for kids to put their clay on while working. Helps keep your tables clean, clay doesn’t stick to it, and won’t stick to the tables. Seriously. Works great.
Second- ZIP LOCK BAGS. Ok this should probably be number one because it is legit the BEST. Get yourself some gallon bags. Write kids’ names on them. Everyone gets a bag. They put their projects and any small amount of extra clay in the bag at the end of the period. The bag keeps the clay moist for over a week + and really helps with organization!
Carts, if you have them! Trays, if you have them!
I have each table put their clay onto one tray-- easy to collect and distribute. Then put the trays onto a cart. If you don’t have a cart, shelving units like: https://www.amazon.com/Furinno-99557BK-GY-Turn-N-Tube-Multipurpose/dp/B007KLYD46/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=plastic+shelving&qid=1554674471&s=gateway&sr=8-4 are great. I have purchased several of these before, they’re pretty sturdy, easy to put together & move.
Other tips, small containers (like take out containers, small jars) are great to use for slip. Just put a chunk of clay in the container with some water and mix. Put the containers in a bag to keep from drying out.
BABY WIPES AND LOTION. Honestly, baby wipes are my favorite for so many reasons. I use them all the time for clean up. Sink washing is just such a mess. Too many kids at the sink at once. Sure, some kids prefer the sink, and they usually go after a baby wipe, but baby wipes help so much. I buy baby wipes in bulk. I stand at a cart/table and kind of monitor/control-- kids bringing me excess amounts of clay (small amounts can go into their bags), I give kids wipes for their hands (3-4, sometimes more), then after they wipe their hands, they can also wipe the tables with them!, kids putting clay into bags, bags onto trays, bringing me the containers of slip (I put them into bags), kids putting clay tools back into a container at their table, kids stacking cardboard. After kids wipe, they can either go to the sink, get more wipes, and then they get lotion.
I collect the trays and put them on a cart or a shelf in the closet to keep them organized by table number.
Lastly, you need this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073XZFHGR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
to cut your clay. Seriously, it’s the greatest. The ones with the wooden handles suck. I tried making my own, using regular fishing wire, other wire..... no... just get this. It’s $10. Seriously, best $10 I have ever spent. No more hurting my hands cutting clay.
I really should post more. The amount of cool stuff my kids have done this year is insane. I love teaching digital art. Digital paintings, 2 point perspectives, creating buildings, a huge art show that 200 people came out to- we had the newspaper write about us and people write letters to the editor about it..... pretty cool. I don’t feel super appreciated by my admin this year, but I do feel appreciated by my kids & their families. Seeing their work... man they make me proud.
Hi. It’s been a while. Maybe going to try to be more active on here. Might start a new blog elsewhere. Really want to start blogging statin about all of my art teacher knowledge for new young teachers.
Anyway, promotional post. I started a teachers pay teachers site. Gonna start uploading some of my resources there. Same username as here. Go check it out!
Sorry if you sent me an ask or message and I haven’t gotten back to you.
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