by "shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
Published 08/13/2017 at 21:16
by "shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
Published 08/13/2017 at 21:16
Tags: Fall is coming
STARS: 8
I understandably will get no sympathy from this of you with conventional jobs, but summer is over tomorrow. Two days of mind numbing meetings will lead into a year where they’ve decided to stuff 25-35% more kids into my broom closet of a CAD lab. I also get to spend a bunch of extra time this year planning to blow the entire program up next year and replace it with a bunch of precanned bullshit because a certain organization is good at promoting themselves. I am ... less than thrilled.
Oh well, I’ve got my wife next to a bonfire with me, and a quality beverage. Gotta enjoy the little things.
"benjrblant" (benjblant)
08/13/2017 at 21:17, STARS: 0
Of curiosity, what do you teach?
"Wacko" (wacko--)
08/13/2017 at 21:22, STARS: 5
I was guessing shop
"benjrblant" (benjblant)
08/13/2017 at 21:24, STARS: 2
Sounds like a shot in the dark.
"Phyrxes once again has a wagon!" (phyrxes)
08/13/2017 at 21:26, STARS: 1
And this among other reasonsis why I am glad I no longer teaching in public schools. This is also my last week before going back, I am the king of errand running and car buying....whee!
"DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-)
08/13/2017 at 21:26, STARS: 2
Do you teach college or HS? Because I’m gonna be super jelly if HS. We never got anything like CAD :(
"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
08/13/2017 at 21:29, STARS: 0
We started august fourth ( not a teacher, just a student)
"Birddog" (maintmgt)
08/13/2017 at 21:32, STARS: 1
A good fire can help ease a lot of pain.
I can’t believe it’s that time already.
"Wacko" (wacko--)
08/13/2017 at 21:33, STARS: 1
It was either that or sex-ed
"Nothing" (nothingatalluseful)
08/13/2017 at 21:46, STARS: 1
Not a bad way at all. Similar to how I ended my last day of vacation in NY last month.
"fryguy" (jbird94)
08/13/2017 at 21:47, STARS: 2
Was a piece of beef part of the “celebration”?
"XJDano" (xjdano)
08/13/2017 at 21:47, STARS: 1
I’m glad to be going into schools for work during the summer. I don’t think I could stand 20-30 pre-teens jaw jacking and under my supervision.
I’ll tell you a story about working in a HS during school hours.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
08/13/2017 at 23:07, STARS: 0
Yeah, it’s definitely not a gig for everyone. My line to people who give me crap about all the time I get off is usually something to the effect of, “You wouldn’t last a week at my job.”
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
08/13/2017 at 23:14, STARS: 0
Middle school shop. Specifically wood working, sheet metal fabrication, CAD drafting, and 3D printing.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
08/13/2017 at 23:15, STARS: 2
I could never keep a straight face long enough to teach sex-ed.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
08/13/2017 at 23:15, STARS: 1
Middle school! Be super jelly!
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
08/13/2017 at 23:16, STARS: 0
I believe very strongly in the public school system ... but they don’t make it easy on us!
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
08/13/2017 at 23:18, STARS: 1
Niiiice!
A lot of schools have another week or two before they start, but we got out earlier than they did, so the length of the break is a wash. I noticed this evening that a bunch of the leaves in the neighborhood are starting to turn.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
08/13/2017 at 23:19, STARS: 0
No, but that would’ve been a capital idea! We had meatloaf and cornbread, so I can’t complain. I thought about taking the family to Schnitzelplatz, but I shouldn’t be spending anymore money until we get paid in three weeks.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
08/13/2017 at 23:20, STARS: 0
Daaaang! Where? And when did your summer break start?
"Phyrxes once again has a wagon!" (phyrxes)
08/13/2017 at 23:23, STARS: 0
Fair enough, I am lucky enough to teach subjects that let me switch to an independent school. It was either make that switch or try and find a corporate job as I was about to be yet another burned out public educator due to bureaucratic decisions and mandated testing.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
08/13/2017 at 23:27, STARS: 0
They don’t test in my subject area, so I get to avoid that massive headache. I still have to sit through the data meetings, because I’m a department chair. Which is a super productive and meaningful use of my time!!! I’m on Oppo or Racer.com during those meetings ... but it looks like I’m analyzing data!
"Birddog" (maintmgt)
08/14/2017 at 00:08, STARS: 0
It’s going to be an early fall. Lloyd’s blowing his coat. I have to sweep and vacuum daily.
We had issues with kids throwing rocks at the new Glass Palace in the spring. That means “security” detail. Ugh.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
08/14/2017 at 06:46, STARS: 1
Ah jeeze. I bet we’re going to have a real winter this year too, after how easy we got off the last couple of them.
Eww, kid security. No fun.
"random001" (random001)
08/14/2017 at 06:49, STARS: 1
I start back to class on the 28th. After this one, four more classes and I’ve got a Master’s Degree. Yay, I suppose.
"fryguy" (jbird94)
08/14/2017 at 07:03, STARS: 1
We should all go to the Platz together. Das ist gut.
"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
08/14/2017 at 07:22, STARS: 0
Athens, Georgia we got may 25
"Phyrxes once again has a wagon!" (phyrxes)
08/14/2017 at 07:55, STARS: 0
Middle school teachers are special group, I know I couldn’t handle them day in day out. Even teaching a middle school stem day camp this summer pushed my patience to its limits a few times. I did learn how much that 6th to 8th grade age group can struggle with visual spacial reasoning, I can’t imagine trying to teach “real” CAD to them.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
08/14/2017 at 12:07, STARS: 1
Ja!
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
08/14/2017 at 12:10, STARS: 0
I’ve had lots and lots of practice, I get new groups rotating through every six weeks. CAD is actually a pretty good tool for teaching them visual and spatial reasoning.
"Birddog" (maintmgt)
08/18/2017 at 01:43, STARS: 1
As long as we don’t get another ”Polar Vortex” I’m good. That was unbearable.
I feel bad for the one kid that got blamed. The admin pressed charges. I don’t think he did it either. He was caught on camera throwing a piece of pea gravel. That somehow shattered a 6' by 12' pane of glass .380 thick?
Yeeah. No.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
08/18/2017 at 03:25, STARS: 1
Yeah, that was freaking brutal!
That does sound hinky. Unless that pea gravel was really a piece of ceramic. At one of the high schools I used to teach in, word got out that if you broke a piece of ceramic off of a spark plug, it would break glass super easily. Suddenly the display cases in the hallways started getting shattered constantly.
"Birddog" (maintmgt)
08/18/2017 at 03:54, STARS: 0
I’ve heard that ceramic tale before too. I tested it a few times at junkyards and think it’s horse feathers.
The way admin handled it just bugs me. Pressing charges over a pane of glass? That doesn’t foster good neighborhood relations. There were several better options.
That had to be a heck of a school to be at. We just super glued classroom door locks. Damn.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
08/18/2017 at 14:17, STARS: 0
I agree on the pressing charges. That’s quite a thing to lay on a kid.
Let’s just say at that school, the problem was entitlement....