Not even back yet and not looking promising

lovebug33

Long story short, my boss is a witch and I have some huge issues at work I'm going back to on Monday. I went today to figure out what the sub has done for the last eight weeks. My boss has moved all sorts of furniture in my room that I said I don't need nor have room for with 32 students. I feel so disrespected it isn't even funny because I told her I didn't need it and didn't want it and she put it there any way. My sub couldn't tell me what she has done the last three weeks and I have no clue what the first sub had done. So, I am going in completely blind and have never even met the students. I start Monday off with a conference before the kids even come in. Oh, I so wish we were rich and I didn't have to go back!

SayAnything84

I would take my DH and we would drag all the furniture out into the hallway and leave it. Things like that tick me off.

lovebug33

SayAnything84:

I would take my DH and we would drag all the furniture out into the hallway and leave it. Things like that tick me off.

You do not know how badly I want to do that. However, if I did, I would get written up and if I get written up again, I could lose my job and we can't do that! 

SunAndRain

That sucks.  Can you start the kids off by having them write down the top three most interesting things they learned over the past 3 weeks?  I am not a teacher so I don't know how well this would go over in your classroom setting.  I'm only thinking from a survey perspective to help you gather information without you having to come out and admit that you have no idea what they've been up to so are relying on them to fill in the blanks (certainly to no fault of your own!)

Anne Mommy

SunAndRain:

That sucks.  Can you start the kids off by having them write down the top three most interesting things they learned over the past 3 weeks?  I am not a teacher so I don't know how well this would go over in your classroom setting.  I'm only thinking from a survey perspective to help you gather information without you having to come out and admit that you have no idea what they've been up to so are relying on them to fill in the blanks (certainly to no fault of your own!)

I'm totally not a teacher either, but I like the idea. I know my niece's teacher gave them a getting to know you assignment the first week (favorite color, favorite foods, favorite movie...). You could use soem of those and some of the what did you learn stuff.