I know I’m a frakkin poet and what not =P
Also my generation grew up with the best comics. POUCHES AND ZIPPERS FOR THE WIN
When I was at the doctor last week the doctor was actually apologizing to me for the mess her generation made of everything
Life is “teh suck” because I’ve spent most of my day off working.
At least it wasn’t really stressful work. Just catching up on management stuff. (I’m not done either. I’m currently burning 6 CD’s worth of music both in audio and .PDF in support of a grant due Wednesday. UGH!)
But I still have 20 tests to grade and lesson plans to make. Oy vey!
So much for composing time tomorrow!
I so relate. I have to do paperwork that is required by law and will make or break funding that someone messed up last year. I need to write tests and grade work. I am taking a class to keep my teaching license. It is full moon and I had a student loose it on me today. I had to go to a meeting so I could not get my work done. I also will loose my planing Wednesday helping give the PSAT. Somedays I want to be fired, but they know no one wants my job. On the other side I do have some students who are learning and actually enjoy my class. I finished another unit in my class I am taking. Oh if you have not figured it out a teacher always has to look on the bright side so I always post on the cool thread when I post here. So go check out the cool video I was sent. Keep smiling :mad::):D:p
I challenge you to find any decent educator who doesn’t spend vast quantities of off-time at work or doing school work at home. my family actually resent my job
My husband is starting to learn about that side of school… but I’m allowed a grace period to not do too much work since he just got here, right? Please? VALIDATE ME! 
hey, if you can stay away, do it. sometimes I think I’m just insufficiently organized.
then I remember I’ve got a huge class, no planning time, ridiculous audits of facilities, materials, and instructional minutes, drug babies, foster kids, ADHD…I could go on, but I’m getting depressed
Can I just be a half-assed, don’t give a flying frak, just doing it for the paycheck, let the little frakers kill each other kind of educator instead?
Actually, it was the running of a new music ensemble stuff that swamped me today. I particularly enjoyed the conversation with a singer’s agent asking for three grand for one rehearsal, a gig and possibly a master class. Not that that amount is unreasonable. It’s actually pretty generous of him to offer such a low amount. We just don’t have that kind of money right now.
Someday I hope that I will be able to survive just on commissions. Or that I will at least land a job teaching strictly composition, which requires very little prep. Or that the group will actually get enough income that I’ll be able to do THAT as my full time job.
Ah, the dreamer’s life!
There’s always at least three at every school: the art teacher, the music teacher and the sports teacher. Or at least, that’s my impression over here.
With experience you get more efficient. You just have a few weeks here and there that are crunch weeks. The rest of the year is great. I am off to work.
Are those examples of “Don’t give a frak” educators or teacher archetypes?
If it’s the following I think it goes:
Arts teachers - Very into their field, very excited, wanting very hard to get students into their field to the point of being annoying at times
Math teachers - Meaner as they get older, don’t care/won’t acknowledge that what they teach is basically useless, picks on students a lot
Humanities teachers (Literature and History) - Very into literature/history, tries too hard to get people into reading/history, punishes those who like reading/history by having too many tests that forces non-fans to read so they don’t fail. Also generally sees waaaaaaaay too much symbolism in books. Sometimes a doctor is not an allusion to hitler but just a pencil.
Gym teachers/Shop teachers - Ex-jocks/gearheads/tool nuts who skate through life basically doing what they love. Hm. Usually either nice or jokingly mean spirited. Could probably beat your sorrybarb in any sport played in gym/knows more about cars/tools/etc then you could hope to know while under them.
Hm. That’s about it. Everybody else could fit into those categories with a change of verbage
For the past week or more I’ve been achy all over with frequent headaches. Advil helps, but I’m sick of talking it all the time. Maybe I’m just getting Frakkin’ old…
No Rash tho, right? Tell me there’s no Rash…
I’ve been frakking exhausted for the past few weeks, and spent almost the whole day in bed yesterday playing catch-up sleep/being lazy…It seems to have worked because I feel great today (so far). I’ve put it down as a change of seasons thing.
And yes, TFG, ibuprofen is my friend now, too. I have been splitting wood the past week or so in prep for the coming fuel apocalypse this winter (meaning the prices more than an actual catastrophic event), and have been on a ladder half the week building a thermal solar panel on the south side of my house, which works great and will supply me with free heat forever, as long as it’s sunny, so my arms, legs, feet, and hands are toast lately. Stiff, pained, waaah.
As for the headaches…well, you ARE married, right?
Yup. Thanks for bringing me back to Erf, my friend. Over forty, married w/kids and house yard to maintain. I guess that pretty much explains the cause of my ailments.
Having been married to a music teacher, been one myself AND worked with a number of others I can tell you that that is a big pile of bupkis.
I was waiting for something like that from you. But you’re college level, aren’t you? Whole different ballpark. At our high school, the obligatory music lessons consisted of 30 minutes of singing songs while the teacher played the piano, 10 minutes of writing down some notes and then another 5 minutes of singing at the end. Once in a while, we got to bring CDs to class, listen to some classical piece or try out percussion instruments. Never seemed like much work for the teacher to me.
That sounds like a pretty bad music teacher.
I’ve taught both high school music (which I didn’t care much for because of the emphasis on band competitions. I don’t think music should be about competition) and college level (which I prefer, but I’m finding that I’d rather go back to a liberal arts college than a conservatory as I like the kind of student there better). I’ve also been an assistant for someone at the high school level. When I taught high school I took over for a teacher that sounded much like yours (my AP Music Theory kids signed up for that class for the easy A. On an Advanced Placement course. Sheesh!). It annoyed me to no end the kind of stuff I inherited, and yet, given how I felt about the administration by the end, I wasn’t surprised he ended up not giving a craaaaap. Had I stayed at that job I would probably have felt the same way.
When I was an assistant the teacher I worked with was (and is) one of the most dedidcated, passionate and driven music teachers I’ve ever seen. She really worked hard for her students and, thankfully, her students worked hard in return.
As a former HS math teacher, I second Armando’s bupkis. That’s way harsh, dude.
… and as a humanities teacher, I third the bupkis…
She might live. I have slowly been working on her myself. But the question is this…when she roars back to life will she be
FrankinSarya
or
ZombieSarya
it might depend on her lust for brains…