April (end of the school year) rants
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1clif_hiker
you know what they say about April showers bringing May flowers... well here's my version as a teacher. April rants bring May ... well end of the school year I guess..
1) Monday, my first hour seniors (zoology) miss my class for the 4th time this semester for an assembly on drinking and driving (missed twice for Josten's orders and pickups... Josten's sells the graduation crap that costs so much... what a racket!)
2) all week: missing kids from all hours to make up EOC testing (absences, FBLA field trips, athletic events)
3) today... sitting and waiting for my third hour biology kids (for whom I left 20 minutes early to school so I could stop and buy tulips for a flower dissection lab), they are 20 minutes late because we have drug dogs in the building. At this point they won't have enough time to even start the lab, let alone any inclination to... inevitable "drug dogs are gay" etc... comments. See #4 for the makeup lab tomorrow... flowers will be dead of course.
4) tomorrow: Loolopalooza all day talent show, kids will be gone randomly from ALL classes, many will simply skip evne if they don't go to talent show
5) next week: PROM!!! Many juniors will get out of class all day all week to decorate. Teachers are expected to show up at 12:00 PM Saturday night to clean up...
and yet, the gov't wants to tie our PAY to how students perform on standardized tests. sure.
1) Monday, my first hour seniors (zoology) miss my class for the 4th time this semester for an assembly on drinking and driving (missed twice for Josten's orders and pickups... Josten's sells the graduation crap that costs so much... what a racket!)
2) all week: missing kids from all hours to make up EOC testing (absences, FBLA field trips, athletic events)
3) today... sitting and waiting for my third hour biology kids (for whom I left 20 minutes early to school so I could stop and buy tulips for a flower dissection lab), they are 20 minutes late because we have drug dogs in the building. At this point they won't have enough time to even start the lab, let alone any inclination to... inevitable "drug dogs are gay" etc... comments. See #4 for the makeup lab tomorrow... flowers will be dead of course.
4) tomorrow: Loolopalooza all day talent show, kids will be gone randomly from ALL classes, many will simply skip evne if they don't go to talent show
5) next week: PROM!!! Many juniors will get out of class all day all week to decorate. Teachers are expected to show up at 12:00 PM Saturday night to clean up...
and yet, the gov't wants to tie our PAY to how students perform on standardized tests. sure.
2jfetting
That sounds incredibly frustrating, especially #3 and #4. Science labs aren't like books. You can't just pick them up and do them whenever you feel like it. Did your wife like the flowers, at least?
3wookiebender
Horribly frustrating. I'm amazed constantly at the amount of extra stuff that gets crammed into my kids' school schedule, and wonder how they ever get taught the basic reading, writing & 'rithmetic. (And somehow, they do. All praise to teachers!) And they're only in Year 1 & 3. It obviously gets worse as you get older.
