I'm pretty bummed out tonight. I have spent the last 10 weeks doing projects on the farm, staying up late, sleeping in, being a bum and a little bit of traveling. Tomorrow is my last day of Summer break which means tonight is my last night to stay up late.
Last year was my first year being a school teacher and it was HARD. I mean like I had several days where I was on the verge of quiting. The kids today seem so different from when I was in school. I think a large part of it is that I am working in a relatively poor district and allot of the students come from broken homes or live with Grandma and they are not getting proper upbringings.
This situation makes for a classroom where kids openly curse, talk about sex, fight and even throw desks across the room when they get angry. Bring a former police officer none of the above really bothers me. What does bother me is that these kids get lunch detention for terrible accts and are right back in the classroom. This means they have no concern about punishment and continue the negative behavior. Now, the week behaved kids suffer from all this nonsense and do not get the education that some of them actually want. I find this very stressful and aggravating.
This coming school year I am going to approach things differently. I'm still working on my classroom management plan but I do know that I'm not going to put up with the nonsense. This will help my sanity and will definitely help the learning environment. If any of you feeling teachers have any suggestions drop them below.
As I was saying. It's going to be hard to transition back to not only working but an environment that I found to be toxic.
I have three kids, the oldest of which is going into fourth grade and I would really like for that to be the last grade he is in this district. The ideal situation is that we homeschool our children next year and that is going to be my goal. The only way this goal can be achieved is if I replace my income over the next year.
Bit of a rant but that is what is going on in my life. Cheers to freedom!
