Day 3

Really?  I mean Really?  I love teaching, but I hate the parent thing.  I am being called to the principals office because a parent called.  I have no idea what it is for, but my WHOLE night is ruined and I ate WAY too much!  Don't they understand that we get paid for 7.5 hours a day and we have about 12 hours a day of work?  Don't they understand that we do our best and love their kids, but we can't be all?  Here is just the short list of things I do during my day besides the 6.5 hours of direct teaching.

• Meeting with team or sped.
• Lesson planning for mini lessons
• lesson planning for guided reading groups
• lesson planning for word work
• lesson planning for writing
• making copies
• differentiating curriculum
• creating worksheets
• creating test/quizzes
• sped paper work
• more meetings
• grading papers
• committees
• social worker for students
• behavior planning
• assessing students
• observing students
• caring for students
• remembering the 200 things we need to do during the day
• any other job as assigned

However, for whatever reason, parents think that their child is the only child that we deal with in the day.  All parents think that their child is a perfect little angel in school and we should have a breeze of a day.

Don't get me wrong, like I said, I love the teaching and being with the students part, but I hate that parents believe everything a 12 year old tells them, I hate that parents don't trust teachers, I hate that the government makes it sound like it is the teachers fault our schools our failing, I hate that people don't really see what is going on inside schools...

I have a masters degree as a reading specialist and parents and administration treat me like I just graduated 8th grade!  They do not trust my professional judgment.  It is a wonder that any teacher stays more than a year or two as a teacher.  Should I call it quits?

I will wait and see what is in store for me in the morning, in the meantime I will not sleep, and be unable to concentrate...is this really the life I need now?

Hmmmmm....wonder why I overeat?