Nolan solo'ed for the first time on the 8th of August! YAY Nolan!
He is done with his 25 hours of IFS as a pilot and will start API on September 14th!
My school (that I teach at) is pitiful. That's the nicest word I can find right now. I almost quit on Day 4 of classes, but thank God day 5 - Friday went better.... It has nothing to do with the kids (discipline and such isn't a problem) and the curriculum is fine too - vague, but fine - so it's EVERYTHING else I never had to deal with at Jane Long.....
A FEW examples -
I started out with 32 kids in each class (was given 24 desks)... the law here is 22 students/class... yet somehow I am down to 28 at the moment, but I get a new kid every period (almost every day) so much for laws?!
I was given 3 reams of paper for the entire school year - I seriously thought it was a joke... It's not.
I can't make overheads without having someone make them for me. (Do I really look that helpless?)
No one talks to me.... they all come right before the bell and leave shortly after the last bell....
I don't have a printer that I can print to that I can actually GET the prints (it goes to someone's room who is of course has GONE HOME by the time I want to print something)
It is all a total joke! I can't imagine quitting, but we will see how the next two weeks go....
My school (FSU classes) are going to keep me busy, but don't look TOO bad, as of yet!
Okay more later....
2 comments:
Such a different world, huh? I didn't mention the part about not making our own overheads, but we don't - in fact, we don't even make most of our own copies either (at least we're not supposed to, but I'm going to anyway because I want it to be right - it's parent volunteers who do most of it and rumor has it they screw it all up). I just can't believe they don't plan together - three heads is better than one! But, because no lesson plans are due, the teacher I work with just gets to school, decides what she wants to teach that day, then pulls it out of her completely overstuffed room...must be nice when you've taught the same thing (or roughly the same thing) for 24 years!!!
Grrr is right. I'm praying for both of us. I can't imagine quitting, but I didn't commit to more than one year, and now I'm glad!
Something I found on another blog... "When life is heavy and hard to take, go off by yourself. Enter the silence. Bow in prayer. Don't ask questions. Wait for hope to appear. Don't run from trouble. Take it full face. The "worst" is never the worst. Why? Because the Master won't ever walk out and fail to return...His stockpiles of loyal love are immense. (Lamentations 3:28-32, The Message)
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