Monday Bitch Fest 4/4

kboydbowman · April 2022

jhysmath · April 2022

I have such a head ache. I also have written 2 pages of questions to ask in my interview when I usually don't ask any. They're going to think I'm pretty extra I think. Maybe this will get them to not want to hire me lol

mamamoomoo12 · April 2022

So so tired of these headaches. I am otherwise feeling so good but they knock me on my butt!

kboydbowman · April 2022

@jhysmath
I approve of malicious compliance!

lilienne · April 2022

I work at a barn, and I have been covering our email inbox for a bit while one of my coworkers is out of town. Before she left she sent an email that specifically said, "I will only be checking email once every day or two. Dana will try to cover but she isn't sure how much she'll be able to do, so please be patient if we are slower than usual to reply." On Thursday we got an email from a client I really don't deal with well, so I left her email for my coworker.

On Friday we had to euthanize one of our old, retired school horses. He was in his mid-30s, which is amazingly old for a horse, and his body finally just couldn't keep going. It was very sad and involved a fair amount of logistics (cancelling lessons, arranging vets, notifying staff, etc.). The client I don't like dealing with sent an interesting response to my "we're sorry to tell everyone that we had to say goodbye to X horse today," email...she replied (with no acknowledgement of the news) to scold me for keeping her waiting on an answer to her previous email.

I actually skipped the barn all weekend because I thought I might scream at her if I saw her.

ashking0922 · April 2022

I hate my job. I’m tired of kids complaining about FUN ART PROJECTS. And half assing their art while still having the nerve to sign up for a more advanced art class next year. They think art is an easy A and they don’t put any effort.
I’m tired of working countless extra hours for free. I’m tired of rotten kids with shitty behavior. I’m tired of admin washing their hands of things. All of this makes me NOT want to send my baby to public school when the time comes

lucyg00cy · April 2022

@lilienne im sorry to hear about the horse, it sounds like they lived a great long life though! And try not to worry about people like that- they’re self absorbed and in this case clearly heartless for not even acknowledging the loss you all had. Karma is a bitch and I’m sure they’ll learn their lesson 😇

@jhysmath what are you interviewing for? I feel you in the headache- I’ve had a migraine for days now and I can’t get rid of it. Although today I could stand the lights being on so I think I’m slowly getting through it.

jhysmath · April 2022

@ashking0922 I partly understand, except no easy A here. They fail. I lower my standards, they still fail. I'm looking forward to the fight with one family next year if I'm still at this school because I slowed down my algebra 2 curriculum because they were failing because they lacked algebra 1 competencies that we had to address. We did not finish, or come close to finishing algebra 2. One kid failed every assessment and retook every single assignment (I realized later he would take notes on the original test and then use those notes that his parents wrote to solve specific problems on his retake, notes are allowed, but I feel like those aren't notes they're the answer to the test even if the test is different numbers, still the same) any how we told the students of they wanted to take dual enrollment classes next year, they would need to sign up for extra class this semester during their advisory time to finish the curriculum and be ready for precalc. This one kid did not sign up and his parents wrote in the last email he would be repeating the course on a computer program... Which I know the parents are just going to do for him because he couldn't graph points never mind do work.

@lucyg00cy for another teaching job in our soon to be new state. I don't want to move and have to teach when I'm due the first week of school, but my husband wants to be there now.

ashking0922 · April 2022

@jhysmath oh yeah mine fail too. I’ve got a ridiculous amount of kids failing art because they are lazy. And they have the nerve to email me over the weekend when they submit work that’s two weeks late bc they need their grade updated immediately over the weekend when I spend EVERY DAY reminding them of missing work. The kids today are either dumber or more entitled than we were, I can’t tell. I couldn’t have dreamed of treating my teachers the way they do. Maybe it’s because I grew up in a tiny town
I’m sorry to hear that you’ve got similar problems, it’s a nightmare to deal with. Hoping it gets better when you are teaching in a new state!

babywiik · April 2022

@ashking0922 @jhysmath entitled kids and parents😱 idk how you guys do it. The day my parents would do my homework for me🤣 if I failed it was my problem. They'd try to help if I didn't understand a concept but wow! Don't parents understand that they're just setting their kid up for even more failure when they get them in classes that are above their level?? I get wanting your kid to do well in school but you can't force it!

wiseh · April 2022

@ashking0922 even in highschool for me if you didn't hand the assignment in on time you were deducted marks and after a week it was an automatic fail. Can you do the same for your class?

Both you @jhysmath are making me nervous for when I start teaching 😅

Good un-luck for your job interview @jhysmath 😜 When is it?

jhysmath · April 2022

@wiseh is tomorrow evening over zoom. Also we're not allowed to deduct points for lateness. We're competncy based and lateness is a soft skill that can be marked separately but doesn't go to their grade that tells us if their competent or not. I'll be excited to get back to normal grading I'm assuming I'm this other state.

Also teaching isn't bad, you just get days when you're frustrated. I found out yesterday that our super decided not to renew my principal who I followed here from my last district and really respect as an educator and boss. So I'm frustrated with the whole system right now.

@ashking0922 I always assume students act the way they do because I'm in a small town. I went to a high school with 10 times as many students and I'm pretty sure aside from my amazing art teachers none of them even knew my name. I couldn't imagine trying anything like mine do. My principal called me down the spring of my senior year because I was in danger of failing a class I needed to graduate. This class had no due dates and I hadn't passed the work in. I walked in his office and he said who are you? I gave my name, he's like why are you here I don't know you... So yeah even with an appointment my school had no idea who I was.

melyrae · April 2022

@wiseh
Like any profession, we have good days and we have bad days. We vent when we need to. But teaching is so rewarding! No need to be nervous.
I think everyone complains about work, but some people pass judgement on teachers when they complain about work. Maybe because everyone has had some sort of experience in education?? That's one thing I have noticed in education that I was not prepared for...

wiseh · April 2022

I'm glad to hear you both still enjoy it! There has been an increase in complaints by teachers in Australia because during COVID so many were not supported by their schools for remote learning so they left the profession. I'm not sure if it was on the news globally but one of our states had one of the longest, strictest lockdown in the world and teachers spent nearly 18 months conducting remote learning. They were not financially supported to set themselves up to do this efficiently and they also had to rotate into classroom learning because essential workers (doctors, nurses, etc.) were still able to take their kids to school and so were kids from low socio economic backgrounds who did not have access to the required technology at home to participate in remote learning. Long story short, it was a bit of a shitfight and lots of people were extremely unhappy. Unfortunately the mass exodus of teachers in the last year or so has resulted in teachers being required to teach outside their scope of expertise - I saw one teacher who was originally hired to teach final year maths and science being forced to teach final years English even though it goes against all the regulations.

jhysmath · April 2022

I think the states are currently seeing a mass exodus because we're supposed to now continue teaching students who are 40% behind the same curriculum we had 2-3 years ago. The students have such learning gaps, but everything was they could not fail so my students who should be doing algebra 1 work again because they lack all of those skills are now taking algebra 2 and have no idea how to do anything. I see an even larger gap between the students who had support at home during remote teaching, those that did the work and those who put their teacher on mute because they were told they couldn't fail. It's really frightening that this won't be going away for the foreseeable future because we're told they passed that class move on to the next one they need.

pangolindrome · April 2022

@ashking0922 @jhysmath my 10th graders are not doing as well as they should be. One period almost half of them are failing and it’s basically by choice. We’ve cut so much out and made it easier as of the pandemic, and I’ve stopped caring 🤷‍♀️
I will cross rivers, deserts, and mountains to help you pass, but I can’t do the work for you. Literally the only students who fail my classes are ones not doing the work. I’ve made it near-impossible to fail even in my dual credit classes.

foreveronyourside · April 2022

I think because I had a graduating class of 70 and grew up in a town of 800 people I had a healthy fear of my teachers in highschool as did most of my classmates because they had also grown up with us since we were in elementary/middle school. My social studies teacher also taught gym and our drivers ed class as well as coached track and football. A lot of our teachers were like that though and taught multiple subjects and did extracurricular with us. I mean yeah, we had some boys that did some stupid things like get in fights and break stuff because of it but they were the ones breaking them up.

Also, I really struggled in school because I had a learning disability and if people in our classes found out you weren’t making good grades you definitely wouldn’t be considered “popular”. It was embarrassing to be bad at math and I can’t help but wonder if kids don’t even feel that way about each other anymore.
Maybe it was just my weird midwestern town?

Breaks my heart to hear that you teachers are basically getting treated like shit because I think my teachers were better parents to me than mine were most of the time. Thank you for doing what you do and I hope there is a kid in your class that appreciates you and sees you for what you’re doing because you are shaping who they will be as a parent/spouse/member of society one day. Our kids are our hope for the future.

And I’m pregnant and emotional. The end.

jhysmath · April 2022

@pangolindrome pretty much the same here, as long as you do the work you'll pass. They just do absolutely nothing. I've been prescheduling kids to my advisory time because I'm getting sick of the emails from their mothers saying why are they failing and me saying they don't do their work and their moms writing that I need to do something to help them pass.

lilienne · April 2022

@lucyg00cy thanks! Yes, the horse had a lovely life and spent his last few years being mercilessly spoiled by wonderful kids who regularly took him out to graze and enjoy his old age. And you summed up the client quite nicely. The good news is, my coworker is back in 3 days, so said client won't be my problem for long!

A funny story about entitled students: I worked for a PhD program at one point, and I was in the classroom while my boss was teaching a lecture. At the end of the lecture she asked if anyone had questions, and someone raised his hand to ask about dissertation deadlines. She calmly explained that her lecture had nothing to do with dissertations and he should review the dissertation handbook. He looked her straight in the eye and said, "This school has so many handbooks...you can't possibly expect me to read all of them, can you?" I almost fell out of my chair! It was so brazen, I really wasn't expecting it.

melyrae · April 2022

@foreveronyourside you’re sweet. Your comment made me smile

laj0217 · April 2022

I think we’re going to see a lot of the retentions this year. For us, it was the first full year back in person. Looking at our current failure list, it is long! The kids just don’t have the base they need for the classes they’re in. I haven’t heard anything about passing everyone this year, though, so there’ll be a lot of students held back.

On the flip side, the schools and teachers are going above and beyond for the students that are asking for help: tutorials, one on one instruction, review materials, etc.

pangolindrome · April 2022

BMI is complete, utter garbage and needs to die in a hole, then get set on fire and once it’s a pile of ash, get pissed on by some really acrid creature.

My waist measurement is still 20s. How in the bloody hell am I considered obese just based on height to weight ratio? Go eat a dead skunk that’s been sitting in 120-degree heat for a week. UGH!

maple1422 · April 2022

@pangolindrome YES! In reference to your previous workhorse comment - I can relate. I'm stronger than I look and nobody ever believes how much I weigh. My BMI has always been high. It's not a good indicator for my personal level of health. My blood pressure is low/healthy and I maintain good cardiovascular fitness. I'm 5'5" and 165-175 lb. is my top-notch healthy. This girl moves her own furniture. I check in on an InBody scan a few times/year to monitor my muscle/fat content and that has been the best quantitative tool I've found.

Edited because I started this reply with the intent to mention that you know your body best and your waistline is actually a great metric to utilize in monitoring your own health. Stick to your guns (see what I did there?) and keep living your strong, healthy, beautiful, not afraid to take up space or tip a scale life! Also: take a moment to research what 175 pound, 5'5" women look like. There's no way that every woman that comes up in the results has the same level of either health or fitness. BMI is just a gauge; it doesn't tell the whole story.
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People Are Sharing Photos Of Themselves Weighing The Same But Looking Completely Different And Its Inspirational 40 Pics Bored Panda

dsmith211 · April 2022

Work is having our quarterly employee meeting in person for the first time since Covid. Attendance for local employees is mandatory. However, the meeting starts at 2 goes about an hour and a half, 2 hours and then transitions into a dinner and drinks… family is not allowed, only employees.

This would be fantastic except DH and I work for the same company. So we’re both expected to go. Regardless of the fact I’d have to find someone and arrange for them to pick up our son from school and then watch him for several hours on a Friday night. And it also has to be the people we’ve previously had approved by the school. Already asked… of course no one is able to get out of work early to watch my kid. So I have to waste a half day of time off so I can get out of the meeting bc I was essentially told that’s the only way I can get out of going.

The people who planned this obviously don’t have to worry about childcare and it really shows. 🙄

foreveronyourside · April 2022

@dsmith211 So the best part is when those people who don’t have a family finally have one and dramatically change their ways 🤣. My boss would give occurrences for 1 minute late regardless of excuse, never excuse absence, said getting out on time was a privilege and not a right. She’s 28 and just had her first baby and BOY has she changed her tune!!!! Like ha! Now you get it!

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