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It has been awhile since I last updated my site. I feel like i always start my post with the same line.
Since my last post, life has definitely change a great deal. First off, congrat to myself because after being unemployed for 16 months, I finally received a full-time job as a sixth grade teacher in Middle School teaching four periods of Math, and one period of Language Arts. The situation couldn't get any better (except it's middle school). I am working along side with a friend of mine from church, her teammate (whom i subbed for last school year), teaching Math (my favorite subject in school), close commute (although this won't last very long), great principal (super supportive) and the teacher union just got a raise (which means i came in a good time cuz i am getting a higher salary). It all sounds good and it is, but of course life isn't a smooth ride. My life can sure testify to that fact. It has been a stressful five weeks of school. I started in the middle of the school year, a bunch of sixth graders who are pushing and testing boundary and limits every single minute, they loved the long term sub whom worked with them for six weeks... the list can go on and on. Yet there are many blessing too, my principal is awesome, my team is great and supportive, the staff are great. I feel like i can be a first year teacher and fail, and it's okay. There is room to grow and i can be human. All in all, things are good. Yet, of course there is a yet, cuz otherwise i won't be writing this cuz i need to vent!!!
I don't even know whether i want to write about this or not, cuz i am not sure whether i have processed it all yet. The painful part about teaching isn't the kids, and it isn't the curriculum, and this time, it's not even the administration. It's the PARENT!! Yes, the PARENTS! I had a parent who basically thought i depraved her son his edudcation the third week i was in school. She came into the parent conference basically yelling at me saying what a horrible teacher i am. How i am mean to the students, and how unfair i am, and how all the names are written on the board (name on board serves as a warning, then they receive a check, each check is worth 15 minutes of detention). Anyhow, all in all, it was bad. Well, it got worst.
Yesterday I found out that a student started a partition to get me fired. Turns out to be the same student (which i am grateful for, cuz i was afraid it's a different student), whom mom has decided that i have been ignoring her son after he got transfer out of my class for Language Arts but remained in my Math's class. She claims that he said he had his hand raised for 30 minutes and i ignored it even though i wasn't doing anything at the moment. Can you imagine any teacher standing around for even one minute and not have to do anything? Well, anyhow, my team met up with principal yesterday and today a parent/teacher/admin meeting was called and i came face to face with the parent again. It was an emotionally draining meeting, and i am sooo beat up right now. I am actually in house church right now but in hiding. Ai, like my friend said, this too will past. It will past, but i have to say, I am very grateful that i have a very supportive principal, and administration, and i have very supportive friends who are around me to assure me that this will past.
Since my last post, life has definitely change a great deal. First off, congrat to myself because after being unemployed for 16 months, I finally received a full-time job as a sixth grade teacher in Middle School teaching four periods of Math, and one period of Language Arts. The situation couldn't get any better (except it's middle school). I am working along side with a friend of mine from church, her teammate (whom i subbed for last school year), teaching Math (my favorite subject in school), close commute (although this won't last very long), great principal (super supportive) and the teacher union just got a raise (which means i came in a good time cuz i am getting a higher salary). It all sounds good and it is, but of course life isn't a smooth ride. My life can sure testify to that fact. It has been a stressful five weeks of school. I started in the middle of the school year, a bunch of sixth graders who are pushing and testing boundary and limits every single minute, they loved the long term sub whom worked with them for six weeks... the list can go on and on. Yet there are many blessing too, my principal is awesome, my team is great and supportive, the staff are great. I feel like i can be a first year teacher and fail, and it's okay. There is room to grow and i can be human. All in all, things are good. Yet, of course there is a yet, cuz otherwise i won't be writing this cuz i need to vent!!!
I don't even know whether i want to write about this or not, cuz i am not sure whether i have processed it all yet. The painful part about teaching isn't the kids, and it isn't the curriculum, and this time, it's not even the administration. It's the PARENT!! Yes, the PARENTS! I had a parent who basically thought i depraved her son his edudcation the third week i was in school. She came into the parent conference basically yelling at me saying what a horrible teacher i am. How i am mean to the students, and how unfair i am, and how all the names are written on the board (name on board serves as a warning, then they receive a check, each check is worth 15 minutes of detention). Anyhow, all in all, it was bad. Well, it got worst.
Yesterday I found out that a student started a partition to get me fired. Turns out to be the same student (which i am grateful for, cuz i was afraid it's a different student), whom mom has decided that i have been ignoring her son after he got transfer out of my class for Language Arts but remained in my Math's class. She claims that he said he had his hand raised for 30 minutes and i ignored it even though i wasn't doing anything at the moment. Can you imagine any teacher standing around for even one minute and not have to do anything? Well, anyhow, my team met up with principal yesterday and today a parent/teacher/admin meeting was called and i came face to face with the parent again. It was an emotionally draining meeting, and i am sooo beat up right now. I am actually in house church right now but in hiding. Ai, like my friend said, this too will past. It will past, but i have to say, I am very grateful that i have a very supportive principal, and administration, and i have very supportive friends who are around me to assure me that this will past.
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