Originally Posted by displacedinMN (Post 16973571)

Another year in the books.

Clean up the room tomorrow then start on the 'stuff I put off until summer' list

Originally Posted by Simply Red (Post 16973641)

Are you gay?

Originally Posted by CaliforniaChief (Post 16973644)

I switched careers. This fall will be my first in a public high school teaching social science. Glad to know there are a few others on CP!

Originally Posted by excessive (Post 16973692)

Started my Summer session Comp I class at JCCC this week. Love Summer classes: only eleven students and I get paid for a full roster.

I tried to do younger students when I started out 30 years ago, but dealing with 9th and 10th graders during my practicums sent me straight to graduate school and out of that mess. With dual credit classes and the trend of high school juniors and seniors taking college level classes now days, I am teaching lots of 16 and 17 year old students on college campuses. So, my question is, wtf are you doing in junior and senior high? Let's just say the quality of student I receive has declined, both in skill level and attitude.

Blame the pandemic, social media, whatever or whoever, but it's a different game than as little as ten years ago. I'm just hanging on for another 3 years when I'll start S.S. and maybe just do a few online classes for extra money.

I'm interested to hear from those teaching elementary or secondary kids about if they see any changes, experienced similar challenges, with the current generation of students.

Many of my students complain that they've already had the courses I teach, don't need to do them again, and the whole experience is a waste of time. "I got an A in this course in high school" is what I hear from many of my D and C graded students. And those aren't the exception but the norm. I'll be lucky to get 2 students out of a class of 24 with both talent and the motivation to work. I can deal with the lack of talent among the rest, as that's my job, but the lack of motivation and desire to learn is what's making retirement look pretty good right now.

Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief (Post 16973696)

Is your neighbor still a messy prick?

Originally Posted by displacedinMN (Post 16973702)

Good luck. Be tough. Stay away from the union agenda BS.

Originally Posted by displacedinMN (Post 17017922)

**** you Wal Mart and Pennys for the subversive back to school ads in July

And a special **** you for Target for wiping out the summer stuff by July 5 and changing it over to Back to School July 6.

Originally Posted by lewdog (Post 17017994)

Speaking of which, the summer breaks in Montana were a month longer than ones in AZ.

My son goes back to school on August 7th and Montana goes back to school August 28th.

Here they get a week off for Fall and Spring break, which is maybe where it adds in?

What gives on the short summer?

Originally Posted by Chiefspants (Post 17018007)

I'm on a modified year long schedule at my new school. I'm back August 1st. Summer Break started on Memorial Day.

The main idea of it is that it fights the "summer slip". Basically there's a ton of data that longer summers cause learning loss, especially among elementary students. There's been an argument for a long time that if elementary teachers didn't have to "re-teach" in the first quarters of every year, learning outcomes could be improved across the board.

Anecdotally, teachers say longer fall and spring breaks help with burnout for a position that is experiencing major staffing shortages around the country.

Just my two cents. I personally am fine with either approach as long as I'm out before June (85 degree classrooms are no bueno -- and I had to deal with that the last month of school in my last two years).

Originally Posted by displacedinMN (Post 17018017)

Thanks Lew. It is a struggle and getting worse. My old district had guns brought to school 3x this year. No one is really taking responsibility for it. One was at a old friends school. He did not report it. District swept it under the rug.

Originally Posted by lewdog (Post 17018009)

I give you teacher's all the credit. You are vital to our success but are given so little.

In AZ they provide an optional "donation list" as classrooms are supposed to be fully supplied by AZ law. We always make sure to give as much as possible. The education system here is near the bottom of the barrel. I don't know how you teacher's do it but thank you.

Originally Posted by displacedinMN (Post 17018017)

Public schools in MN cant start until the day after labor day.
We start before since it is private.
We have the normal holidays off but have 2 days off in October for the Union meetings.
22 years-I have never been there.


There is never a schedule that will make everyone happy.



Thanks Lew. It is a struggle and getting worse. My old district had guns brought to school 3x this year. No one is really taking responsibility for it. One was at a old friends school. He did not report it. District swept it under the rug.

Originally Posted by Chiefspants (Post 17018018)

There are whispers that two schools in my area swept students bringing weapons to school under the rug this year.

You're not the first teacher I've come across who said they're also seeing this, and it's a terrifying trend.