by "Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
Published 09/01/2017 at 18:37
by "Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
Published 09/01/2017 at 18:37
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But ew.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
09/01/2017 at 18:41, STARS: 0
You’re not in Kansas any more. Where are you?
"Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies" (jordanwphillips)
09/01/2017 at 18:42, STARS: 0
It was 63° where I was earlier.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
09/01/2017 at 19:24, STARS: 1
Ew! It was 70 and sunny today here, and I had to take the day off because daycare was closed ... darn the timing :)
"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
09/01/2017 at 19:49, STARS: 0
At least people in Houston got a free pool
"PatBateman" (PatBateman)
09/01/2017 at 20:36, STARS: 1
Come on down, go swimming in it.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
09/01/2017 at 23:41, STARS: 1
Leaving my job.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
09/01/2017 at 23:46, STARS: 0
It was 66 in my house this morning when I left for work. No AC in my house.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
09/01/2017 at 23:48, STARS: 0
I took the day off to avoid meeting with all of the district math people the day before school began. I am going to make that a tradition.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
09/01/2017 at 23:49, STARS: 0
A pool two miles square and two miles deep.
Is the water receding rapidly?
"PatBateman" (PatBateman)
09/01/2017 at 23:51, STARS: 1
In some areas, yes. In others, it’s still rising.
"Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies" (jordanwphillips)
09/02/2017 at 07:34, STARS: 0
Ouch. That’s a change.
"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
09/02/2017 at 08:29, STARS: 0
107F IS 42C, just nice
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
09/02/2017 at 09:14, STARS: 0
Nice! My first year in the district, they came down hard on people taking the day off during institute days. At the time we had a genuinely horrible superintendent, and one institute day about 1/3 of the staff didn’t show up. The no-shows were right, it was a complete waste of time.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
09/02/2017 at 22:29, STARS: 0
I called in sick. I had an eye problem. I couldn’t see myself attending the training.
They could punish us by not paying us at all, which would be fine with me. Save the leave day and retire a day sooner.
You said something recently about attending a meeting to discuss dismantling your program. Was it as bad as you anticipated?
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
09/02/2017 at 23:20, STARS: 0
Haha, good one.
As for the meeting, yes and no. First and foremost, I’m still going to have a job either way. Currently every single kid in our middle schools takes the arts rotation (Shop, music, art, computers/coding, fcs). They want to make band/orchestra/choir part of the school day (currently it is before school), which would mean not every kid gets to have that exposure. The up side would be the kids that do take it, would get a longer more in depth version of the class, instead of a 6/9 week rotation. Our position, all of us who teach these classes, is that this is a very bad thing. Middle school is for discovering what you’re into, high school should be where they go in-depth.
The meeting was supposed to be a half hour long, it ended up being a very intense hour and a half. Two of our assistant supers stood there and got hammered with question after question. Their justifications for these changes just don’t hold water.
To be fair to those two admins, I think they’re just taking their marching orders from our Super, who would never in a million years have stood there and took those questions. He’s proved that repeatedly.
I doubt it will change much, if anything, but I’m glad we at least got a chance to make our feelings known. I’m also glad it remained civil and professional on both sides. Nobody lost sight of the fact that we all have to work together still.
I got plenty of shots in myself. I had no less than a dozen other teachers come up to me In the following days, to thank me for saying what I said.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
09/03/2017 at 01:28, STARS: 0
I can relate to every word of that. And those admins probably have five years tops in a classroom and were working on their dissertations most of that time.
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
09/03/2017 at 10:37, STARS: 0
I actually worked under one of them briefly at my last district. He doesn’t have that typical admin history, and is a decent dude. He walked into this mess when he started here over the summer. I know nothing about the other’s history, but at least she had the guts to take questions, and was willing to admit that they hadn’t looked at any data to support their assertions. When this first was announced this spring, our super gave a five minute statement to all the middle school teachers, during which he didn’t even have the guts to look up at us even once. Afterwards, he literally turned tail and ran off the stage.
"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
09/03/2017 at 14:32, STARS: 1
Educational leadership , they write on their résumé.