Anybody else exhausted?
Been a long year and it's only May.
Someone said to me yesterday that the first ten years of his teaching career went by like a blip, the last four years have felt like an eternity.
Feels similar to me.
Teaching the Age of Reform - burn and churn, burn and churn, burn and churn...
An open question for edu-fakers across the state (and beyond).
ReplyDeleteWhat workplace miracle would you produce if you were given only 80 hours of work time spread out over a 10 month span?
Only 2+ hours per week to perform your miracle.
Ten months littered mostly with distractions and interruptions.
Just 80 hours.
And imagine if the co-workers you supervised and depended on were frequently absent, skill deficient, rarely paid attention, were mostly apathetic, and often non-compliant. And you could not fire and replace them with more motivated and incompetent workers.
When you answer, that's just not enough time to accomplish very much. And the co-worker issues would make my job impossible.
We say, welcome to our world.
Bring on summer vacation!
ReplyDeleteI go straight through to August. Wish I didn't need to do summer school.
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