So much to say and yet so little time. I finally figured out this is an app, so that's an amazing upgrade in my ability to blog. While I'm am technically not a first year teacher, I still feel like one.
Every year seems different. This is officially my third year. This is also the first year I've felt like f#!!!# teaching. My administration sucks, my kids suck, my department sucks, & my school district sucks. I understand why teachers quit. Honestly, it's the environment. I can take the pay, the kids that don't care, the parents that don't care, but it's when everyone in the state (or so it feels like) doesn't care... it's a s#!+ show.
*sigh* I'm just venting. It will get better, or so I hope. It's also that time of year. Not the happy Christmas, holiday season shiz, it's this thing (which when I found out about it, it did legitimately make me feel better) that teachers, maybe everyone, go through. It's the few weeks before winter break (can I just call it Christmas break already?) Where a teacher and student are totally just done.
I hope this is what's happening because I see problems with the new generation.... I don't know how to explain it other than they don't feel a need to remember anything or to even work towards anything. Perhaps, it is I turning into the old woman who can't understand the youth. All I know is by the time I entered 11th grade, I knew the parts of speech, how to spell basic words, and how to bs my way through an essay. Hopefully this doubt passes and I can love what I do again.
P.S. I keep saying it, but I really want to keep this up. I may only be speaking to myself but it helps.
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