"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 02/22/2019 at 13:01 • Filed to: far side friday

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Chariotoflove > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/22/2019 at 13:21

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I’m sitting in a faculty meeting right now discussing administration. This is relevant to my situation. 

shop-teacher > Chariotoflove 02/22/2019 at 14:03

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That's every Tuesday morning for me.

Chariotoflove > shop-teacher 02/22/2019 at 14:33

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If it’s only Tuesdays, we’ll call you lucky.

Die-Trying > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/22/2019 at 14:46

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shop-teacher > Chariotoflove 02/22/2019 at 15:09

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Yeah, it’s not. It’s also once a month after school with the entire school staff. Once a month after school with the 6-12 Career and Tech department chairs and district coordinators. Annnnd because some of us still might have two or three marbles rattling around inside our head, once a month with all the 6-12 department chairs from the whole district, just to make sure we’re all sufficiently crushed.

I only have two other teachers under me. They’re both great, but one of them is a total stud. He’s always staying late, making new curriculum, building new shop fixtures, designing new projects. I keep threatening to resign my department chair position and make him do it. His response is, “No! Then I won’t have time to do the actual work! I need you to go to the stupid meetings, so I can do the actual job!”

He’s not wrong.

Chariotoflove > shop-teacher 02/22/2019 at 15:49

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Sucker.

shop-teacher > Chariotoflove 02/22/2019 at 16:28

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Truth.

Chariotoflove > shop-teacher 02/22/2019 at 16:58

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An addendum: I have been observing the administration around me since becoming a faculty member. I’ve done my share of chairing and serving on various faculty committees. In fact I chair two right now and serve on three others. I become more resolved each year that a job in administration is not part of  my career ambitions. It’s so much of a time suck, that I wouldn’t be able to do what I trained for in the first place.

shop-teacher > Chariotoflove 02/22/2019 at 18:34

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It is insane how much of a time suck it is. It wasn’t always this bad, but new administrators have added many demands in the last couple of years. I dream of the day I can tell them to take their pitiful stipend  and shove it.