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Can feel like?!... No it's definitely a burden and shouldn't be.

@TheFIRESatoshis @TheMattViera This is not the norm. Most teachers don’t walk away with a package like this.

@TheMattViera The "teachers don't make money" narrative needs to die. Pension + healthcare for life is a comp package most startup employees would cry over.

When my friend started teaching she made $54k. Today she makes $117k. In her final year she'll make $150k+. When she retires she'll have: • A full pension • ~$1M invested • Health coverage for life All from a public school teaching career. With summers off.

@CodingWCulture Studies are showing that 1-1 tech is not all it’s cracked up to be. Kids are actually under performing their parents and there’s a correlation to the use to tech. Yes, it has a place. But kids are missing some core skills that come with analogue work.

Please retire. You are on here posting daily complaining and bemoaning things that are a part of the current 21st century classroom. Times are a changing and apprently, this makes your life miserable. There's gotta be another field you can go into. Lord have mercy

@Magical_Fanfic @ModestTeacher @BowTiedOdin 🤣

@ModestTeacher @BowTiedOdin Sounds more like you need to work on classroom management. My students never ask to go during instructional time, only work time. Because they respect me and the class. And I've rarely had to track down a kid who was gone too long.

We have to normalize telling kids “no” when they ask to use the bathroom during class

Do you know how hard it is to pluck stubborn menopausal chin hairs after consuming a bottle of wine on a Thursday night??? 10/10 do not recommend.

@educator4ever36 Yeah. We have close to 800 kids Prek-12.

@teacherdown Wow! Kudos to you. Is this a rural school?

This completely annoys me and is a direct result of the failure of the master scheduler. I loved scheduling and taught many how to do it. There is zero reason for a secondary teacher to have more than two preps and if the Principal can’t make it happen, they need more scheduling training.

@educator4ever36 You adjust. It started as 2 preps part time. Then I had as many as 4 (fulltime) when I had 7, 10, and 2 different mixed classes (11 & 12). Now I have 10 & 2 mixed classes (each 11 & 12). My high school was the same way growing up.

@teacherdown I’d not have lasted there. That’s just too much.

@brclothwrites I keep mine open as a leftover habit of wanting to hear my kids if they needed something. But I’ve been told it’s better to keep them shut as a way to help slow the spread of fire if necessary.

Help me win this argument! At home, should your bedroom door stay opened or closed while you are sleeping?

@Matt_Pinner Cry…not ready for the snow

You wake up to this What is the first thing you do

@ThrillaRilla369 Yes. And I think that contributed to my tendency to hoard - don’t throw something you could use later.

I’m trying to prove a point Have you ever lived paycheck to paycheck?

I’m sorry, but there is nothing “funny” about the “Alligator Alcatraz” shirts being sold on @Etsy. And it’s gross that sellers (and buyers) think that it’s ok. Tell me you’re immune to the suffering of other without telling me you’re immune to the suffering of others.

@TheFigen_ Excuse me Sir do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior Godzilla

@MidClassRepub 💯

@teacherdown Right? Even if it takes just a couple minutes, the process of making a bed feels way worse than it really is.

Doing laundry. On a Sunday night. Bonus - clean sheets. Downside - I just want to go to bed but sheets are in the laundry.

Some causes of burnout

Why does daylight savings time start at 2 a.m. on a Sunday morning, so we lose an hour of sleep? Why not have it on a Friday at 4 pm so we can leave work early?

Repotted tomatoes and cucumbers this weekend. Need to repot peppers next and then start some more seeds. Do I have room for all the seedlings? No. Does that matter? Also no. Hopefully I can sell the plants when they are ready.

@MidClassRepub I have a teenage son in sports, so laundry is an almost every night thing, but big projects like bedding is overwhelming. Not so much the multiple loads, but having to actually make the bed - even if I really enjoy clean sheets when I’m done.

@teacherdown I used to loathe cleaning sheets on a Sunday night but now it's a must just to feel like something will go right for the week.

$1500 for a used greenhouse. Not horrible and it’s local to me. But that’s still lots of money. What would it be like to not have to think twice about spending that amount?