MsCoffeeLover
06-02-2008, 03:35 PM
You know what? The longer I stay in teaching, the more I realize I can't be the teacher I really want to be. That sometimes the "other stuff" takes away from educating our kids. It has been making me angry for quite some time.
There are just some things I don't get. We had standardized testing two weeks ago with grades having to be in the system several days ago. However, we have to spend at least a week with the kids after that. There is no more grading. I can understand a day or two for incentives and award days, but this is just crazy.
We are now collecting textbooks and assessing damages and whatever, and I am about ready to not use a textbook next year at all just to not have to deal with this kind of stuff. This is just too much. Apparently, I am supposed to assess damages and collect money for them too.
It is really just easier to pass everyone than to keep up with everything. There are too many averages to figure out. There are too many awards to categorize. Then we have to order the award certificates. It is also easier to everything on a scan tron than to ever have short answer or essay questions.
Library books too. I am missing one book that I checked out, but let a child use. That lady is calling me in the middle of class to get that book.
My phone is ringing off the hook to take care of all of this other stuff, and I hardly have a minute to take care of the regular stuff. I just don't get it.
This classroom inventory can bite me. I can't even identify half the stuff on the list. Never have I been more thankful to be a minimalist. Apparently, I am supposed to pack everything up, but no one will tell me where to put it, so it is going into to small closets in my trailer.
At this point in time, I would be willing to keep teaching the kids, get them out of school, and then have a few days to take care of the other stuff. Now I really am babysitting and taking care of stuff I have never taken care of before and do not know how.
I still can't figure out this balance thing, and no one really will help you at all. I don't want to be the teacher that gives multiple choice only tests because they are easier to grade or not use text books because of the end of the year stuff.
All of this other stuff is so overwhelming to me that I feel as though I really can't be the teacher I set out to be. Just to get the job done, it seems as though something has to suffer, and it seems as though I am the one picking up the slack.
I apologize in advance for this post and the rants I seem to be making lately. I just can't figure out how to do this without feeling as though a little piece of me is dying on the inside.
There are just some things I don't get. We had standardized testing two weeks ago with grades having to be in the system several days ago. However, we have to spend at least a week with the kids after that. There is no more grading. I can understand a day or two for incentives and award days, but this is just crazy.
We are now collecting textbooks and assessing damages and whatever, and I am about ready to not use a textbook next year at all just to not have to deal with this kind of stuff. This is just too much. Apparently, I am supposed to assess damages and collect money for them too.
It is really just easier to pass everyone than to keep up with everything. There are too many averages to figure out. There are too many awards to categorize. Then we have to order the award certificates. It is also easier to everything on a scan tron than to ever have short answer or essay questions.
Library books too. I am missing one book that I checked out, but let a child use. That lady is calling me in the middle of class to get that book.
My phone is ringing off the hook to take care of all of this other stuff, and I hardly have a minute to take care of the regular stuff. I just don't get it.
This classroom inventory can bite me. I can't even identify half the stuff on the list. Never have I been more thankful to be a minimalist. Apparently, I am supposed to pack everything up, but no one will tell me where to put it, so it is going into to small closets in my trailer.
At this point in time, I would be willing to keep teaching the kids, get them out of school, and then have a few days to take care of the other stuff. Now I really am babysitting and taking care of stuff I have never taken care of before and do not know how.
I still can't figure out this balance thing, and no one really will help you at all. I don't want to be the teacher that gives multiple choice only tests because they are easier to grade or not use text books because of the end of the year stuff.
All of this other stuff is so overwhelming to me that I feel as though I really can't be the teacher I set out to be. Just to get the job done, it seems as though something has to suffer, and it seems as though I am the one picking up the slack.
I apologize in advance for this post and the rants I seem to be making lately. I just can't figure out how to do this without feeling as though a little piece of me is dying on the inside.