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Closing a chapter in my life...

proudarmywife08proudarmywife08
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I'm sorting through a bunch of stuff in our garage and I'm recycling all my old teaching things. This includes masters and keys for entire years worth of teaching. I just don't see myself teaching in the next five years or so and if I do go back to work after that I don't know that I will teach. I would like to eventually work with kids again, but teaching is so time demanding I just don't think I want to do that with kids. Anyway, its making me sad to get rid of all that stuff. I worked hard to amass all of those resources  and hate just recycling them. But I can't keep dragging them around the country either.
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  • MarknCalsMommyMarknCalsMommy
    Aw, I'm sorry.  I know the exact feeling.  I have way too much stuff in my garage saved for that eventual return too.  But DH and I were just talking about if I really want to go back to teaching, or go back to school to become a children's librarian instead because of politics and the time thing.  I'm not ready to part with anything yet though.
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  • LoveInCowboyBootsLoveInCowboyBoots member
    :( I felt this way the last time we moved, from the country to town. I had sold my horses, but I was holding onto all my tack. I finally just took it to my parents' but it will be a long time before I get back to training horses again. Going from training part time with the dream of doing it full time to wife and mom was tough. Hopefully I get our kids into the horses so it would be easier for me to start riding again. :)
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  • papagenapapagena member
    (hugs)  I hope you find it a bit liberating.  It's always hard to really let go of things like that from my past. 
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  • MrsD_111106MrsD_111106
    I'm going to have to do the same thing in the next month or two.  I don't think I'll be going back to teaching once DS and DC2 are old enough for school.  It's so demanding in both your time and emotions.  I'd rather save them both up for my kids.
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  • aspadeaspade member

    I have 20 boxes in our garage.  ::blushes::

    Can you call a local school or make a posting on Craigslist?  I'd hate for all your hard work to go to literal waste.  My dept. had a bunch of old textbooks a few years ago, and at least 3 worthy people answered my CL ad.  I ended up giving them to a fellow teacher at a public school w/ zero resources--she about cried when she saw the teacher's edition of her vocabulary book.

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  • littleanomalylittleanomaly member
    Have you tried contacting any local schools to see if those teachers would like them?
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  • FutureMrsLemonFutureMrsLemon member

    Definitely contact any local schools or do you know anyone who is in school for education right now?

    These posts are all really surprising to me. I am just finishing up my Masters right now for Reading Education. I am hoping to get a full time job this fall. I have done long term substitute positions in kindergarten so I understand how time consuming it is. I was actually talk to DH the other day about it, and how I wasnt sure how I could balance it. I remember working from 7:30am to 7:30pm numerous days during one of my long term positions. But there is no way I can not work, we cant afford that. And I am really excited to have my own classroom. Yet I am also afraid of how demanding it will be. 

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    Definitely contact any local schools or do you know anyone who is in school for education right now?

    These posts are all really surprising to me. I am just finishing up my Masters right now for Reading Education. I am hoping to get a full time job this fall. I have done long term substitute positions in kindergarten so I understand how time consuming it is. I was actually talk to DH the other day about it, and how I wasnt sure how I could balance it. I remember working from 7:30am to 7:30pm numerous days during one of my long term positions. But there is no way I can not work, we cant afford that. And I am really excited to have my own classroom. Yet I am also afraid of how demanding it will be. 

    Honestly, for me, it's not just the time/emotion demands.  It's a lot of the politics of teaching, budget cuts, and just generally apathy from both students and teachers.  I taught for 4 years in a low income middle school, took a year off for DS, then went back to a charter school.  While my students this year are miles away from my former students in regards to motivation, I just don't have that fire anymore. 

    I became completely burned out at my old school.  At the start, I was really excited to have own classroom and to change the lives of my students, but having those teachers that really should retire basically run the school with unwillingness to change and the lack of any sort of motivation from a large majority of my students just wore me down.  I'm just done.

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  • proudarmywife08proudarmywife08
    imageFutureMrsLemon:

    Definitely contact any local schools or do you know anyone who is in school for education right now?

    These posts are all really surprising to me. I am just finishing up my Masters right now for Reading Education. I am hoping to get a full time job this fall. I have done long term substitute positions in kindergarten so I understand how time consuming it is. I was actually talk to DH the other day about it, and how I wasnt sure how I could balance it. I remember working from 7:30am to 7:30pm numerous days during one of my long term positions. But there is no way I can not work, we cant afford that. And I am really excited to have my own classroom. Yet I am also afraid of how demanding it will be. 

    I love teaching. I would love to teach again. But I can't do it with kids. It took up so much of my time I barely saw DH, I can't imagine what it would do to me with two kids now. I miss the students like crazy. I was fortunate to teach at two really good schools and have a ton of really good students but I just can't take that much time away from my kids. I just don't think its fair to spend that much time with other people's kids and not my own. 

    And I am keeping all the books and resources, just not copies of all the masters and keys. I can redo that if I ever do get back into teaching, I just can't justify keeping boxes of papers lying around anymore. And its all things that are specific to a certain book, so I can't imagine how useful it would be to a lot of teachers since every school uses different books. Although I didn't think about freecycle or craigslist. Two boxes are already in the recycle bin, but maybe the other stuff I haven't sorted yet...

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