That was just...
Odd. And added stress that I didn't want or need.
School starts tomorrow. We teacher-types had to go back yesterday; the kiddies had a couple days reprieve before returning to the 9 1/2 month grind - yeah, it USED to be only 9 months, but the grand poo-bahs of education decided that the young'uns needed to learn more than what could be taught in 9 months, so they decreed that it must take exactly 185 days to pound all necessary knowledge into resisting noggins...no more, no less. It shalt not take 186 days, and God shalt strike thee dead should thou take 184, but 185 days precisely shalt thou take to teach yon "we-want-to-be-anywhere-but-here" children.
So I'm in my classroom this afternoon, minding mine own beeswax, working on getting stuff ready for tomorrow, when here comes a new teacher to ask me for advice.
Me.
Advice.
ROFLMAO.
Seriously, I'm only going into my 4th year as a teacher. I recall only too well what it was like my first year. So I truly sympathize with the guy, so I pass on the great wisdom that teacher-friends, young and old, new hires and retirees, gave to me so long ago...
Be Mean.
We chatted for the next hour and a half about grading policies and discipline and etc. Then he got a phone call. Then he asks me how long would it take for the school to find a sub if a teacher left.
I'm not stupid, duh. 2+2= He's got another job offer. So I tell him quite bluntly that we went through 3 freaking science teachers last year (he was supposed to teach adv. science and math cause our math teacher resigned this year too). And that science and math teachers were the hardest to find. And then I told him that if he was leaving, he needed to talk to the headmaster asap, because the sooner the HM knew, the faster he could find a replacement.
&^%$
My school does not need this crap. I don't need the stress of being the holder of such information, because I promise you that I will be bombarded with questions tomorrow...what did he say, what did I say...::sigh::
Anybody want a job teaching Chemistry, Physics, Algebra 2 and Pre-Calculus in lower Alabama???
School starts tomorrow. We teacher-types had to go back yesterday; the kiddies had a couple days reprieve before returning to the 9 1/2 month grind - yeah, it USED to be only 9 months, but the grand poo-bahs of education decided that the young'uns needed to learn more than what could be taught in 9 months, so they decreed that it must take exactly 185 days to pound all necessary knowledge into resisting noggins...no more, no less. It shalt not take 186 days, and God shalt strike thee dead should thou take 184, but 185 days precisely shalt thou take to teach yon "we-want-to-be-anywhere-but-here" children.
So I'm in my classroom this afternoon, minding mine own beeswax, working on getting stuff ready for tomorrow, when here comes a new teacher to ask me for advice.
Me.
Advice.
ROFLMAO.
Seriously, I'm only going into my 4th year as a teacher. I recall only too well what it was like my first year. So I truly sympathize with the guy, so I pass on the great wisdom that teacher-friends, young and old, new hires and retirees, gave to me so long ago...
Be Mean.
We chatted for the next hour and a half about grading policies and discipline and etc. Then he got a phone call. Then he asks me how long would it take for the school to find a sub if a teacher left.
I'm not stupid, duh. 2+2= He's got another job offer. So I tell him quite bluntly that we went through 3 freaking science teachers last year (he was supposed to teach adv. science and math cause our math teacher resigned this year too). And that science and math teachers were the hardest to find. And then I told him that if he was leaving, he needed to talk to the headmaster asap, because the sooner the HM knew, the faster he could find a replacement.
&^%$
My school does not need this crap. I don't need the stress of being the holder of such information, because I promise you that I will be bombarded with questions tomorrow...what did he say, what did I say...::sigh::
Anybody want a job teaching Chemistry, Physics, Algebra 2 and Pre-Calculus in lower Alabama???