Do I need to make a reading comprehension remark?
I live in a town with a home plus. A very tiny home plus, pretty much the same size as a normal towns GS25.
Where are the grade 5s going today? We don't have grade 5 class today. No, I mean they have a field trip. Do you know where they're going? That is not our concern. It's not our responsibility. *Holy Christ, just making some small talk*
OMG, I have had conversations like this soooo many times. Additionally, on a much sadder, angrier note...I find out a student commits suicide in my school (by now I have taught all them, I love them and they all matter to me a great deal), Me: I whisper, who was it? teacher: Why?me: Because I care. I taught them. I'd like to mourn them.Teacher: You don't need to know.This has happened 4 times in 3 years. Aside from the fact suicide shouldn't even be happening or so frequently, why can't I know???
Quote from: travelinpantsgirl on September 22, 2017, 09:08:51 amOMG, I have had conversations like this soooo many times. Additionally, on a much sadder, angrier note...I find out a student commits suicide in my school (by now I have taught all them, I love them and they all matter to me a great deal), Me: I whisper, who was it? teacher: Why?me: Because I care. I taught them. I'd like to mourn them.Teacher: You don't need to know.This has happened 4 times in 3 years. Aside from the fact suicide shouldn't even be happening or so frequently, why can't I know???Do they think it would bring shame to the kid/family? Otherwise seems like bollocks to me.
Holy shittttttt, that would probably make me blow a gauge. The f is their problem? "Someone you know died, but I can't tell you who it is." It's like the worst game of keepaway ever.
Why is a random teacher telling me that I have to go and stay in the staff room every afternoon? What's wrong with staying in the English classroom? She then proceeded to berate me to arrange the desks and keep the place clean. I use this classroom one day a week! The desks are in a different arrangement every week not once perpetrated by myself. There's a bunch of fourth graders who are supposed to clean it during lunch! Pass the buck!! Argh!
There's a policy at my school where they're not supposed to talk about students' private lives or situations outside of anyone who isn't somehow involved with or directly affected by them. So, technically, only that student's teachers, the head teacher, the VP and the P are supposed to know the exact details. As far as I know, this is fairly standard at most schools, but how strictly it's practiced can vary. If those outside of that circle know more than the basics (in this case being that someone committed suicide), it's either because they put 2 and 2 together based on things they know about here and there, or because of gossip, which many KTs are not comfortable sharing outside of trusted circles because, if it comes back to them, they could get into legit trouble over it. Students know about it, of course, through friends and classmates.I don't personally like how they go about dealing with this sort of thing here, it's not healthy, and I'm sorry that you keep finding yourself caught up in it, travelinpantsgirl.
One of the teachers' cars got smashed/shoved. Since nearly everyone was away on a field trip when this happened, it had to have been one of the vehicles used for the current construction project. The worker who mans that vehicle is claiming no fault. The teacher is pretty peeved, understandably so, and has since called the police about it. From what another teacher relayed to me, the accused are claiming that nobody was in the vehicle and that it rolled into the teacher's car of its own accord when the emergency brake failed.
Wait...let me guess...next the accused is going to blame the teacher because...wait for it...it was parked there... And then he'll countersue for emotional damages and win... Quote from: yirj17 on September 22, 2017, 10:25:30 amOne of the teachers' cars got smashed/shoved. Since nearly everyone was away on a field trip when this happened, it had to have been one of the vehicles used for the current construction project. The worker who mans that vehicle is claiming no fault. The teacher is pretty peeved, understandably so, and has since called the police about it. From what another teacher relayed to me, the accused are claiming that nobody was in the vehicle and that it rolled into the teacher's car of its own accord when the emergency brake failed.
Quote from: travelinpantsgirl on September 22, 2017, 10:28:55 amWait...let me guess...next the accused is going to blame the teacher because...wait for it...it was parked there... And then he'll countersue for emotional damages and win... Quote from: yirj17 on September 22, 2017, 10:25:30 amOne of the teachers' cars got smashed/shoved. Since nearly everyone was away on a field trip when this happened, it had to have been one of the vehicles used for the current construction project. The worker who mans that vehicle is claiming no fault. The teacher is pretty peeved, understandably so, and has since called the police about it. From what another teacher relayed to me, the accused are claiming that nobody was in the vehicle and that it rolled into the teacher's car of its own accord when the emergency brake failed. The corner of the cafeteria is also smashed, a window is broken and everything. The gas tanks were apparently damaged as well but one of the teachers made a point to assure me that there was "no explosion." Hah.
A lot of my middle school classes are canceled due to tests or miscellaneous school events. I'll only get to see my travel school two more times before I finish my contract. Somehow my elementary schools rarely cancel. And when they do have a special event they like to make me make up the classes by doubling up on classes on other days (it never exceeds the maximum so I can't complain). I'd rather double up on my middle school classes.
ooohhh so she texted that to you?Quote from: yirj17 on September 22, 2017, 10:46:38 amA lot of my middle school classes are canceled due to tests or miscellaneous school events. I'll only get to see my travel school two more times before I finish my contract. Somehow my elementary schools rarely cancel. And when they do have a special event they like to make me make up the classes by doubling up on classes on other days (it never exceeds the maximum so I can't complain). I'd rather double up on my middle school classes.