so i don't post for a couple weeks and then i go hog wild when i get back to it. well, i got this forward from a friend and it made me feel better. i customized it to more resemble my situation and cleaned up some of the gibberish that comes with forwards and here it is: (my insertions are bolded and underlined, and some deletions were that i personally don't have to pay 1/2 the cost of extra classes, the district pays about 1/2 of that cost.)Have you heard about the next planned "Survivor" show? Three businessmen and three businesswomen will be dropped into elementary school classrooms for 6 weeks. Each business person will be provided with a copy of his/her school district's curriculum, and a class of 25 students.
Each class will have
a learning-disabled child, three children with A.D.D., 2 gifted children; one of these gifted children will also be blessed with Oppositionally Defiant Disorder. Each business person must complete lesson plans at least 3 days in advance with annotations for curriculum objectives and modify, organize, or create materials accordingly. They will be required to teach students, handle misconduct, implement technology, document attendance... write referrals, correct homework, make bulletin boards, compute grades, complete report cards... document benchmarks, communicate with parents, and arrange parent conferences, for starters.
These new 'teachers' must be 'nice & cordial' to the rudest and worst of parents, lest they be accused of scaring away families from the school. They must also supervise recess and monitor the hallways. In addition, they will complete drills for fire, tornadoes, and shooting attacks. They must attend hours of workshops, faculty meetings, and curriculum development meetings. They must also tutor those students who are behind to take the
ISEL & Open Court tests.
If they are sick or having a bad day, they must not let it show.
If they so sick that they must stay home, they must assure that everything that could possibly go wrong during the day is planned for, in addition to providing a plan for no crises. And if this illness falls near a holiday break, the business people must provide a doctor's note to prove that they are not simply trying to extend their vacation. Each day they must incorporate reading, writing, math, science, and social studies into their program. They must maintain discipline and provide an educationally stimulating environment at all times. The business people will only have access to the golf course on the weekends, but on their new salary they will not be able to afford it anyway. There will be no access to vendors who want to take them out to lunch, and lunch will be limited to 30 minutes. The business people will be permitted to use the staff restroom during lunch and prep time.They will be provided with one, 40-minute planning period per daywhile their students are at activity classes,
provided that the activity teacher hasn't called in sick and comes to get the kids on time. If the copier is operable, they may make copies of necessary materials at this time.
The business people may leave when the children go home - on these conditions: they either get ALL of their work done during their prep period, or they carry everything they don't finish home with them, to be completed while the rest of the working world is relaxing for the night.In order to make wages comparable to those of people in the business world, the business people must continually advance their own education on their own time. This can be avoided as unnecessary marrying someone with money. Any supplies that the children don't bring to school, the business people
must provide using their own money. The winner will be allowed to return to his or her former job
, or if they do love kids enough but could live without the stress, they'll be given enough money to live on for the rest of their lives and they can tutor to pass the time.
