Not a bad way to end the summer 

"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher) 08/13/2017 at 21:16 • Filed to: Fall is coming

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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 > shop-teacher 08/13/2017 at 21:17

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Of curiosity, what do you teach?

Wacko > benjrblant 08/13/2017 at 21:22

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I was guessing shop

benjrblant > Wacko 08/13/2017 at 21:24

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Sounds like a shot in the dark.

Phyrxes once again has a wagon! > shop-teacher 08/13/2017 at 21:26

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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 > shop-teacher 08/13/2017 at 21:26

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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 > shop-teacher 08/13/2017 at 21:29

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We started august fourth ( not a teacher, just a student)

Birddog > shop-teacher 08/13/2017 at 21:32

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A good fire can help ease a lot of pain.

I can’t believe it’s that time already.

Wacko > benjrblant 08/13/2017 at 21:33

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It was either that or sex-ed

Nothing > shop-teacher 08/13/2017 at 21:46

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Not a bad way at all. Similar to how I ended my last day of vacation in NY last month.

fryguy > shop-teacher 08/13/2017 at 21:47

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Was a piece of beef part of the “celebration”?

XJDano > shop-teacher 08/13/2017 at 21:47

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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 > XJDano 08/13/2017 at 23:07

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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 > benjrblant 08/13/2017 at 23:14

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Middle school shop. Specifically wood working, sheet metal fabrication, CAD drafting, and 3D printing.

shop-teacher > Wacko 08/13/2017 at 23:15

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I could never keep a straight face long enough to teach sex-ed.

shop-teacher > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time 08/13/2017 at 23:15

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Middle school! Be super jelly!

shop-teacher > Phyrxes once again has a wagon! 08/13/2017 at 23:16

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I believe very strongly in the public school system ... but they don’t make it easy on us!

shop-teacher > Birddog 08/13/2017 at 23:18

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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 > fryguy 08/13/2017 at 23:19

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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 > Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner 08/13/2017 at 23:20

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Daaaang! Where? And when did your summer break start?

Phyrxes once again has a wagon! > shop-teacher 08/13/2017 at 23:23

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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 > Phyrxes once again has a wagon! 08/13/2017 at 23:27

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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 > shop-teacher 08/14/2017 at 00:08

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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 > Birddog 08/14/2017 at 06:46

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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 > shop-teacher 08/14/2017 at 06:49

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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 > shop-teacher 08/14/2017 at 07:03

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We should all go to the Platz together. Das ist gut.

Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner > shop-teacher 08/14/2017 at 07:22

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Athens, Georgia we got may 25

Phyrxes once again has a wagon! > shop-teacher 08/14/2017 at 07:55

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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 > fryguy 08/14/2017 at 12:07

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Ja!

shop-teacher > Phyrxes once again has a wagon! 08/14/2017 at 12:10

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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 > shop-teacher 08/18/2017 at 01:43

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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 > Birddog 08/18/2017 at 03:25

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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 > shop-teacher 08/18/2017 at 03:54

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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 > Birddog 08/18/2017 at 14:17

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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....