Katelyn #LowBarTeacher ๐๐๐๏ธโ๏ธ๐๐๐๐ซ๐จ๐
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Wife & Mom | Educator | BLM | All Things EdTech, #VEX Robotics, STEM, Equity, & Human Rights. Anti-TPT. Pro-cuties. #LowBarTeacher . LSUGym๐๐
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A tweet: โthe entire education system is built on unpaid teacher overtime.โ
I canโt even imagine what would happen if teachers and school staffs only worked their contractual hours, only fulfilled their contractual duties and only used the resources their schools provided.
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Teachers are entitled to take leaves whenever the need arises, but the system is set up so their colleagues have to pick up the slack.
โฆAnd I hate that system.
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I donโt know who needs to hear this, butโฆ
Stop making teachers walk around and write on chart paper at inservices. ๐๐๐ฅด
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I just read โparaprofessionals arenโt teachersโ on a thread about teacher appreciation week.
I donโt understand the need to make this distinction. Parapros are education professionals, and I reply on them in my job.
Some of yโall show your elitismโฆa lot.
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In another class, the teacher let the kids bring a snack from home as a reward.
One of my eighth graders brought an entire rotisserie chicken. ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
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โThe district recommends all your social media be private, if possible.โ
Can we stop this? Educators should be allowed to have a social media presence if they want one.
Because letโs be real: yโall donโt pay me enough to own my actions outside of 7:30-3:30.
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How do I know some curriculum writers arenโt teachers?
A real middle school teacher would never have a class of eighth graders read an article with the name โDr. Weinerโ in it. ๐ซ ๐ค๐คฃโ ๏ธ
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@sedonaprince_
For all of you tools here explaining how Title IX does not apply.
This is straight from the NCAA website. โEquipment and suppliesโ
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The teacher dilemma of half your class needing to be in the front of the room. ๐๐๐๐
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I went school supply shopping for our two children with Mr. Katelyn today.
This is usually a task I do on my own, but we did it together today.
Yโall.
Why did this man ask if it โreally matteredโ if the crayons were Crayola and if the pencils were Ticonderoga? /1
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For the record, a 24-count box of Crayola crayons is 50 cents at both Walmart and target right now. That -other- brand is marked at 40 cents.
Just spend the extra 10 cents for the love of the lord.
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Ah yes. I forgot all the laying around I did during virtual teaching. There was definitely not a ton of extra work as we pivoted lessons intended for F2F to 100% virtual, there was no extra leg work to communicate with families and students. ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ
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@sedonaprince_
The best part of this video is all the mansplaining of why the NCAA can break their own rules.
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Inservice days are never actually for teachers to do classroom work, are they?
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My classes bombed my end of unit assessment. Today, I re-assigned that test, but I let them work with their table groups to discuss why an answer is the right answerโฆand the discussions happening were *chefโs kiss* ๐ค๐ผ
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My grades were finalized yesterday, and they arenโt even due until next week.
Iโm usually the person still entering grades at 7:57 when theyโre due at 8.
Someone clap.
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In the year 2023, I want to remind everyone:
โขNot everything needs to (or even can) be taught in schools.
โขTeachers and schools cannot be the catch all for all of societyโs problems.
โขParents and teachers HAVE to work together for students. We should be a team.
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If youโre observing teachers on the Thursday before a break, I have some choice words for youโฆ
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Stop putting more on teachersโ plates and not giving them bigger plates/more time to clear the plates.
Thatโs it.
Thatโs the tweet.
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If I die because Iโm gunned down in a classroom, donโt call me a fucking hero.
I cannot even see straight. All I can do is rage.
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The way I love teaching but honestly why does this school year feel like itโs been 12 years long? Will it ever end
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A parent is complaining about the color of our school spirit shirt on an fb post.
My principal just commented: โbuy it or donโt. Does it matter?โ
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Yโall stay on teachersโ necks, and I truly donโt understand why yโall are so upset? Go get a degree and come on down to the classroom. You can be off every weekend, have every evening free, AND enjoy your 9 weeks of summer furlough EVERY year! /1
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A thread on why the TPT platform is trash, with links, since some Ts are telling me to โapologizeโ to TPT. LolโIโm going to double down instead. First, this is larger than TPT. Itโs a systemic issue in education. No resources, all of us clamoring for content. /1
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11 students out of 40 completed one of my assignments last weekโฆthat I did WITH them during class. ๐
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Hey
@SecCardona
, who do we contact for sanitizing wipes, KN95 masks, and air purification systems to ensure we can safely have in-person schools? You got any more of them resources you been tweeting about?
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My sister is 31 years old and knows she doesnโt want children.
She went to her gyn today who told her they wouldnโt do a tubal because she is โtoo young.โ
This question would never been asked of a man seeking a vasectomy. ๐
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Meghan Trainor is still canceled for her โf teachersโ remark as far as Iโm concerned.
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Repeat after me: control & compliance are not pedagogy.
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โWell why donโt teachersโฆโ
BECAUSE WE ARE TIRED, BRUH.
Nuh uh. Get somebody else to do it.
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Today was not a great teaching day.
Id tell yโall about it, but every time I do, someone comes to offer their unsolicited advice. ๐
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~PeOpLe HaTe PuBLiC sChOoL TeAcHeRs BeCaUsE tHeY aLwAyS cOmPlAiN~
๐ WE KNOW YALL HATE US.
But I promise, I will never stop speaking up about the things that impact the field because ultimately, those things impact studentsโ learning, too.
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55% of teachers in my district voted to be paid biweekly.
The board voted to leave it as is.
Literally why even ask us to vote
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I gotta buy my own pencils, paper, and crowd fun my own classroom resources, but yโall want me to have a gun for classroom โsafety.โ
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Not men explaining to me why [women] teachers need dress codes.
Please stop.
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*posted with my daughterโs permission*
My daughter came out about a month ago. Her best friend is no longer allowed to talk to my daughter, as a result.
I will honestly never understand this model of parenting.
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There is not a single educational problem that will be solved by teachersโ dress code.
Also, in the elementary classroom, I am on the floor and everything else with kids. I am not wearing my good clothes to stand at car rider or recess duty.
Yโall just say anything.
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My brain cannot comprehend sharing a room with 20+ preteens and teenagers every day and not sharing parts of my life outside of school.
โDonโt tell your students personal information like your age.โ
Seriously they could Google it and find it easily. ๐๐๐๐
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I cannot do this job if human shield is part of the job description.
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I gave my middle schoolers a โbonusโ assignment. They had to make memes related to my content and explain them in paragraph form. ๐คฃ yโall, why are these memes making me laugh so hard?!
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Imagine sending home a teacher for this outfit when you can barely find subs to cover classes when someone is actually ill. ๐
Today I got sent home for wearing this:
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My biggest issue with the "Just don't work outside of your contact hours" advice is:
1) It still doesn't solve the problem of the unfeasible work expectations.
2) It's not possible, which is ๐the entire problem๐
3) I really didn't ask for the unsolicited advice lol. /1
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My friend (not a trained T) was hired as a teacher and quit after 3 days.
Hereโs what he had to say: โNew teachers should get training or be prepared for classroom management/discipline etc instead of 9 hours about sentence fragmentsโฆjust a thoughtโ /1
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I was offered the job.
My principal said they wouldnโt release me (approve the transfer request) if there isnโt someone to take my place. ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ teaching isโฆsomething.
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Dan, teachersโ summer pay is comparable to you working 50 hours but only getting paid for 40โฆso when you take your โpaid vacation,โ you can still earn a paycheck for the PTO.
Glad we could clear that up, bestie. ๐ฉท
My summer paycheck is MY money that was withheld.
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Iโm doing a modified version of the pencil game, and itโs saving my sanity. Every morning, I give each of my fifth graders a sharpened pencil. If they can return the same pencil to me at the end of the day, I let them choose a candy or a sticker. /1
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I just saw a friend complaining about the amount of unpaid work she does as a teacherโฆand an electrical engineer was trying to compare workloads with her.
I hate exploited labor as much as the next person, but talk to me when youโre not even making $50k a year.
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Me: โI donโt understand why appreciation has to be exclusionary. Paras & other staff do a lot for the students in our classrooms.โ
Some of yโall: โBUT WHAT ABOUT ME AND MY DEGREES? HOW WILL ANYONE KNOW I AM A TEACHER IF I SHARE MY OLIVE GARDEN BREADSTICKS?โ ๐ถ
#sickening
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One thing about me: Iโm going to use my days. ๐
Thatโs why theyโre there.
If you donโt like it, good luck finding someone to take my job at this point. ๐คก
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Itโs the subtle misogyny in my mentions for me.
Like how dare me, the person in the classroom with 20+ children, have a preference for supplies I know have the best quality.
I wasnโt shaming anyone.
I stated a preference. ๐
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Why do people with 4 brain cells and a smart phone always feel the need to attack my job?
โWow what a great example you are for children.โ
First of all, Brenda, I teach middle school, and the number one rule of MS is ya gotta be more petty than the kids.
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True life: I long for summer because the school year is grueling, but then I spend all summer doing voluntary PD because the lack of structure during the summer is horrible for my mental health. ๐
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Men who work in education but act like theyโre morally โaboveโ ~complaining~ about systemic problems in education 100% let the women they work with pick up their slack, and you cannot convince me otherwise.
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Iโm not even going to give that video of the teachers scrambling for $1 bills another view.
Iโm just going to stay for the country that loves to BRAG about being the โbestโ and the โrichest,โ itโs pretty damn sad that Ts are competing for dollars for their classrooms. /1
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Sir, you have been married to a teacher for a LONG time, and you wanna look me in my face and ask if it REALLY matters if we get Crayola crayons?
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(This is all jokes, by the way. Do not come in my mentions with idiocracy.)
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โJust be positive.โ
No. I want to be negative. I donโt understand why we are so quick to dismiss our feelings of frustration, disappointment, and sometimes even anger. Let me sit in my negativity and feel the things, and Iโll find my way back to positive. /1
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I donโt want to live on a planet where people like Darren exist.
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Since she went private, let me repeat:
Your experience as a student in a K-12 school is *NOT* equal to being an adult working within a school building.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
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If I had told my fifth grade teacher, โTHIS IS STUPID!โ About something she was doing, I wouldnโt have any teeth in my mouth..
I really need this year to end.
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How dare me not like unannounced observations, ESPECIALLY two days before a week off.
Now every admin on twitter is in my mentions demanding to know why not and when they can come. Literally none of you are my boss, so the answer is NEVER.
Maybe twitter dying wonโt be so bad.
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Also, one more thing:
Some Ts of upper grades have this air of condescension toward elementary Ts. Friends, itโs palpable to us when yโall think our jobs are easier than ours/donโt require intelligence. I teach fifth grade bc I like this age, not bc Iโm dumb.
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How is rewarding the ability to keep track of one singular pencil for one school day a controversial topic
I hate it here
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Something Iโve started doing with ss is using the term โyour adultโ instead of mom/dad. Itโs much more inclusive of the many different people who play a guardian role in a childโs life.
I was reminded of this today when I referred to a studentโs adult as โyour mom.โ /1
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Mark, please let me detail my summer โoffโ for you.
Last day, May 24. First day back, August 4. The math isnโt mathing since thatโs not 3 months.
Week 1: took a dozen students & their parents on an educational trip to the Florida Keys. Not โoffโ bc I was still teach./1
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Itโs a teacher shortage, and a good friend of mine in Pennsylvania says that her principal has 18 blackout days (where they cannot miss work) September-Novemberโฆand if they do, theyโll be written up.
SIR. Pick ya battles.
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What we really want is to work in our classrooms.
@k8roulette2
We donโt want to move, we donโt want to sit with other people and we donโt want to break ice
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In the chaos that has been my twitter mentions all weekend, I totally forgot to mention:
I applied for and was accepted to a position as an EdTech Teacher Leader Advisor with the Louisiana Dept of Ed.
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I email my parents multiple times a week. They are tired of seeing my name in their inbox.
Also, the entire curriculum is posted on the public internet. No one is hiding what their kids are being taught.
Parents have the right to know what their children are being taught in school in order to make informed decisions about their kidsโ education.
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Itโs already the second Friday of the break, and stress of the holidays, family drama, and my dadโs surgery aside, Iโm not ready to get back to the 90 mile an hour pace at all times that is teaching on Tuesday. ๐
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The CDC recommends just putting a wet paper towel on where it hurts.
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If the 2021-2022 school year wasnโt enough to make me want to leave this profession, the unnecessary ugliness of some in this profession pushed me over the edge.
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I met Mr. Katelynโs boss today, and he called โschoolteachersโ liberal because we have โliberal arts degrees.โ And all I had to say was, โTell me you watch Fox News and have no clue what the liberal arts are without telling me. ๐๐ ALSO. My degree is a bachelor of SCIENCEโ
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Someone said they love helping Ts provide supplies in their classroom and had a picture of Crazy Art crayons.
Listen, thatโs a mixed message.
If you loved teachers, youโd know we want Crayola.
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That man has not been in a classroom since 2006โฆand only taught four years. ๐ญ bye
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I was out today.
When Iโm out, I leave a form for my students to do. They love these, and if I tell them ahead of time, they will ask to make sure I leave one!
The girls usually give me all the details, but one of my eighth grade boys spilled ALLLLL the tea today ๐
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With all due respect: I said what I said.
My days are my days, and Iโm going to take them. The kids will be okay for ~one~ day. They really will.
@k8roulette2
Itโs not the admin that suffers, itโs the kids. The days are there if you or family are sick, catastrophic disease. I know itโs a bad climate, lack of respect and professionalism and sometimes I feel this way too but the kids are watching. Thatโs why Iโm here
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People in my building asked if I was sick because I was the only one wearing a mask. So, no. A safe return to school isnโt happening across the country.
Schools around the country are making a safe return to school happen. All because of the hard work of educators & school staff โ and fueled by the American Rescue Plan.
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Half of our students experience periods. Half of our students go through the literal LIFE CHANGING experience that is a โperiodโ well before sixth grade. I had a student get her first period in THIRD GRADE.
Stop criminalizing everything we do.
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Donโt be a leader that makes your teachers feel like youโre inconvenienced when they have a concern.
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I shouldnโt have to work 12 hours a day for $45k a year, Tim.
@JustinAion
@The_MrLee
Teachers are the only professionals who insist on operating within contractually stipulated time periods. A professional works until the job is done.
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After all the mansplanations about contracts and the rules, Iโm pleased to announce that my principal signed off, and I am moving to middle school after all. ๐๐
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โWhy arenโt you documenting your parent communication in this system?โ
Uhhhh. Because documenting the communication takes twice as long as the actual communication, and Iโm forgetful?
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The desperation I feel to leave a profession that doesnโt see my humanity is SO REAL.
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โDistricts canโt fill open teaching positions with experienced candidates, and they donโt do enough to coach and support teachers who are entering the profession.โ
Fixed it.
Teachers' Skills Took a Hit During the Pandemic, Too, Report Says
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Your friend didnโt notice this before third grade, Andrea?
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You mean to tell me Iโve been STRUGGLING to make 45 minutes of planning time work for all of my elementary life, and then I go to middle school and have two periods off back to back?!? ๐ฑ
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-once again staring in classrooms-
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Sometimes I high key HATE the lack of flexibility in this job.
I need to bring one of my girls to the dentist bc she lost a filling. They have tomorrow at 2:30 or NOTHING for weeks after 3. ๐ฉ
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A local Christian school couldnโt pay their teachers for the month of July. They told their teachers, โSorry, our budget is out.โ
Mind you, Summer checks are for work already completed.
I am appalled.
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Yโall.
Iโm teaching at one daughterโs school. My other daughter is at my feeder school and will be able to take the bus to/from my campus to her campus.
Solo parenting is so tough, so having something work out and not pay aftercare is so nice.
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When your childโs preschool asks you to bring Halloween treats, and you really arenโt down to send 48 individually wrapped bags of candy. ๐ diy cutie jack o lanterns.
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My brand new little baby robotics team qualified for World Championships in Dallas, TX next month. The coach who didnโt have a clue what she was doing in august is taking a bunch of teens to Dallas with their robots! Iโm so proud of them.
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@washedupteach
In the Montessori setting, they asked us to pre-open things for this reason. The teacher sounds out of line for her response, but open it and stick in a bento box or something.
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Kids beating up their teacher for calling their parent about their grades.
Kids jumping and murdering their Spanish teacher for grades.
I love what I do, but every day, I wonder how much more crap we have to take before something actually changes
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I emailed my daughterโs teachers to let them know that she wonโt be there the rest of the week bc her great-grandmother is dying in a city 2.5 hours away, & we needed to be with family.
All I received was โwe need documentation for the absenceโ & what missing work she can do.1/
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This is a mental math concept I use a LOT. โMake tenโ is literally the only way I add.
My sons math homework. I simply canโt roll my eyes enough. Why are we adding needless work instead of teaching simple math.
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I just saw a post that said โEvery family needs a mentally unstable but academically gifted oldest daughter who copes with burn out through retail therapy and a crazy huge ambition addiction.โ
And I feel both seen and attacked. ๐
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Second, this is NOT directed at creators. I have found some WONDERFUL resources on TPT in the past, but TPT, the platform, is complicit in allowing racist & plagiarized content to remain on their site until they receive enough pushback. /2
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