Thursday, January 12, 2006
Due to the whole back to school craze, my rant on a post fight club consumerist world really went to the back of the priority list.
maybe one of these days, I'll scribble it into my peronal pages.
anyways, the first week of school has gone decently well. 3 weeks is really a long time to be off and my body is taking a toll. Getting back to a normal sleep schedule is hard. I also remember how hard it is to have a normal life as a teacher. I get up at 5:30, out the door by 6:30.
I'm at school from 7 till about 4. THen its the gym from 4:30 to 5:30. Now, if I want to get to bed at a "decent" time of 11:30 I need to get 1)grading/planning 2)cook dinner/cleanup 3)pack lunch 4)basic maintenance stuff before I get to bed. If I even want to spend time with my girlfriend ,talk or see my roommates, , or just have some personal time doing human things like reading a book, listening to music, watching a movie, other things get sacrificed.
If I want to have a healthy balanced life, I can almost expect that some of my classroom responsibilities will go by the wayside. I hate that I have this horrible choice to make. Finding a balance is hard for me. One day of my weekend I know will be dedicated to a job that I only get paid for 30 hours of my work. Oh yeah, we get summer off, but I have to work a second job so I'm not eating tuna fish for the month of august.
i'm not complaining, just merely stating the facts. If you are a teacher, you've heard this before, and if you are a non-teacher friend of mine, you already know. I guess this is just my way of telling you that I'm finding it very hard to come back next year.
New job prospects will be searched and resumes will be sent. I'm fairly confident I can handle what these jobs throw at me after putting in 3 years at markham.
Is the grass greener? maybe. ¶ 1/12/2006 08:55:00 AM
maybe one of these days, I'll scribble it into my peronal pages.
anyways, the first week of school has gone decently well. 3 weeks is really a long time to be off and my body is taking a toll. Getting back to a normal sleep schedule is hard. I also remember how hard it is to have a normal life as a teacher. I get up at 5:30, out the door by 6:30.
I'm at school from 7 till about 4. THen its the gym from 4:30 to 5:30. Now, if I want to get to bed at a "decent" time of 11:30 I need to get 1)grading/planning 2)cook dinner/cleanup 3)pack lunch 4)basic maintenance stuff before I get to bed. If I even want to spend time with my girlfriend ,talk or see my roommates, , or just have some personal time doing human things like reading a book, listening to music, watching a movie, other things get sacrificed.
If I want to have a healthy balanced life, I can almost expect that some of my classroom responsibilities will go by the wayside. I hate that I have this horrible choice to make. Finding a balance is hard for me. One day of my weekend I know will be dedicated to a job that I only get paid for 30 hours of my work. Oh yeah, we get summer off, but I have to work a second job so I'm not eating tuna fish for the month of august.
i'm not complaining, just merely stating the facts. If you are a teacher, you've heard this before, and if you are a non-teacher friend of mine, you already know. I guess this is just my way of telling you that I'm finding it very hard to come back next year.
New job prospects will be searched and resumes will be sent. I'm fairly confident I can handle what these jobs throw at me after putting in 3 years at markham.
Is the grass greener? maybe. ¶ 1/12/2006 08:55:00 AM
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i hate that it's not enough to actually teach. if you do a good job of teaching you put a lot of yourself, your heart, your time, and your energy into teaching but IT'S NOT ENOUGH. you don't even have time in the day to grade work, let alone actually PLAN something. i spend most of my plan time cleaning up my room and cutting paper. i get more time to plan and re-energize during the day than most teachers do and i still feel overwhelmed. i can't believe how little time they have to plan and EAT LUNCH! anyway, i'm feeling a little resentful of all these freaking hoops that i have to jump through to teach, all the extra stuff i have to do and i find myself asking "can't i just teach?" i need a secretary. i need an assistant. just let me teach and have a life.
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i hate that it's not enough to actually teach. if you do a good job of teaching you put a lot of yourself, your heart, your time, and your energy into teaching but IT'S NOT ENOUGH. you don't even have time in the day to grade work, let alone actually PLAN something. i spend most of my plan time cleaning up my room and cutting paper. i get more time to plan and re-energize during the day than most teachers do and i still feel overwhelmed. i can't believe how little time they have to plan and EAT LUNCH! anyway, i'm feeling a little resentful of all these freaking hoops that i have to jump through to teach, all the extra stuff i have to do and i find myself asking "can't i just teach?" i need a secretary. i need an assistant. just let me teach and have a life.
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