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Prodigal teacher continues
Well he came today. Berated them for raising their hand to ask questions. Suggested that their parents enlist his tutoring for $50 an hour. Unethical and they can afford it. Out of this 90 minute class he has lectured about conduct and how grateful they should be for him for at least 40 minutes. The other portion is a confusing worksheet that they're my allowed to raise hands for help with. What is this even?
The prodigal teacher
The prodigal teacher has returned, apparently. The gym teacher brought the class back to my room and then left to "track down" the teacher. I have an idea who he is. I saw a man this morning buddies with other teachers who said it was good to be back and he had a long story to tell. Maybe that's where he is - telling the story. Meanwhile he is in the building but not in his class.
Still playing around with Photoshop and my scanner. I want the comic to read legibly on Tumblr but the site keeps resizing my scans. I’m not sure what to do anymore, but I liked this comic enough to want to post it bigger than my usual 300 pixel width.
A teacher friend posted this on my Facebook wall and I thought I would share it with you. How true is this!
more than curriculum
“Every education teaches a philosophy; if not by dogma then by suggestion, by implication, by atmosphere. Every part of that education has a connection with every other part. If it does not all combine to convey some general view of life, it is not education at all” (G.K. Chesterton, The Common Man).
Apartment 1228
The writing prompt was "describe the happiest day of your life". Most students wrote about going to the zoo or getting a PS4. Richard write about the day he moved to America. He remembered flying on Delta Airlines and using a soda machine for the first time, figuring out the coins. He described seeing his father for the first time in years and the apartment they had for the family. "It was the happiest day of my life to come here".
Lung cysts
The school I teach in is very old. It, like many middle school buildings is a hand-me-down school and was once a high school. On another day I'd love to chat about that, because a middle school should be designed for its purpose which is as unique as the people in the building.
Anyway, nothing has been updated in this building except the colossal waste of space they call a Smart Board. #theydontwork
Chiefly, the ventilation systems.
1) An elderly teacher developed LUNG CYSTS last year and the doctors confirmed that it was from mold in the school. She was denied worker's comp and instead moved to another school in the district. No work has been done to improve the ventilation.
2) I became very sick during my early days at the school after not being truly "stay-home-from-work" sick in several years. The vents blow air constantly. I highly doubt I just had an immune system crash.
3) When I spoke with an administrator about needing days off he confided in me that when he first came to the school he developed a hacking cough for a MONTH. Brother! Go to a doctor! Ask some questions!
So, every day I'm in the school I'm aware that the air is literally contaminated, the students are constantly exposed and that even if you get very ill, even if you report it, even if the doctor confirms it, you and your concerns will be swept under the rug.
Kids going weeks without a teacher
I am crushed by what is going on at my school.
The remedial math class has no teacher. Their "real" teacher is in "teacher detention" at the district, which is supposed to be a disciplinary action of professional development, but is actually a joke. So, the teacher they HAD was bad enough to be removed. So, he was BAD. They then had a sub, who for some reason, shared my room during planning period. This meant that is she got in there before me, she was on my computer. And also that my planning period was louder than my own classes because she exercised no attempt to control the class at all.
One day, and one day only, she was at my desk on my computer BOOKING A DISNEY VACATION. Yes, and the hotel too. How do I know? I was standing behind her looking at the screen that she made NO attempt to hide. Also, she was on the SCHOOL phone with hotels. She did not make contact with the students once. For an hour.
The next day she made them do a coloring activity. For math, you know. This time she was in a small, computerless desk, and silently unhappy. This day, she spoke to the students. Spoke is a nice word- she berated and belittled them. The students are 90% hispanic, and from many different countries. When the students were making noise, which didn't bother her the day before when she was booking a hotel, she stood and screamed at them. She said, "I'm gonna call your momma. And I know how MEXICAN mommas hate it when I call home".
I freeze. Holy schnikey did she just call someone Mexican????? Yes.
She did not come the next day. She was in the teacher's lounge on the phone when they found her. At that point the children had already been sent to the gym for the remainder of class.
This week, and for the last 6 days they have not even had a sub, or as I like to say, a pulse and a mouth.
One of the children with special needs asked me, "why don't we have a teacher". I straight up told him, "because the district is not providing for your education and I wish I was even allowed to take over for your class, but I'm not". He was literally sad to miss math, y'all. MATH.
Welcome to real teacher talk
Teachers hear, see and experience an unbelievable range of emotions, humanity, trials and joys. I'm here to share it, because it causes me pain to keep it all in. There is some legitimately unethical, bad stuff going on out there. We focus on the medium bad stuff while the "What the eff" goes under the radar. We also don't celebrate the good times, and become accustomed to not even looking for them.
This tumblr isn't pretty, but it is real. Kinda like my classroom.
