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History Geek said:
We got ours in early September. Seems to be working fine for now.
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For the longest time this year there was no icon for us to denote 504 or special Ed. Then we got a folder icon to mean sped and today access to the doc from PowerSchool
 
Hey Adrien! said:
We had this conversation at lunch today and I'm curious where the spread on teachers goes with this.

Which day of the week are you the most tired throughout the day?

For me, it's Monday because I tend to have the least amount of sleep on Sunday night and then the onslaught of stimuli Monday takes time to adjust. Sleep well on Monday night and then rest of the week is fine. Tired also on Friday, but it's more of a giddy/fun tired as the weekend approaches.
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This year I’m coaching teeball on Mondays. Definitely Monday
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
For the longest time this year there was no icon for us to denote 504 or special Ed. Then we got a folder icon to mean sped and today access to the doc from PowerSchool
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We have a two people under the teacher contract based in the district office dedicated to researching/recommending/supporting all district teachers educational platforms we use. One of them is in charge of PowerSchool. He bugged the state to get SPED/PowerSchool handshake? fixed after last year's clusterf_. Maybe he became the beta tester and now its rolling out to others. Who knows?
 
Hey Adrien! said:
We had this conversation at lunch today and I'm curious where the spread on teachers goes with this.

Which day of the week are you the most tired throughout the day?

For me, it's Monday because I tend to have the least amount of sleep on Sunday night and then the onslaught of stimuli Monday takes time to adjust. Sleep well on Monday night and then rest of the week is fine. Tired also on Friday, but it's more of a giddy/fun tired as the weekend approaches.
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Any day there was a meeting or parent conference after school. SPED conferences took the longest.
 
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History Geek said:
We have a two people under the teacher contract based in the district office dedicated to researching/recommending/supporting all district teachers educational platforms we use. One of them is in charge of PowerSchool. He bugged the state to get SPED/PowerSchool handshake? fixed after last year's clusterf_. Maybe he became the beta tester and now its rolling out to others. Who knows?
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The number of teachers added to the faculty yearly whose job was to do anything but teach went up every year in my system.

One year my school was recognized for having the lowest student teacher ratio in the region. Class size was over 30. The reported ratio was 12:1.
 
Hey Adrien! said:
We had this conversation at lunch today and I'm curious where the spread on teachers goes with this.

Which day of the week are you the most tired throughout the day?

For me, it's Monday because I tend to have the least amount of sleep on Sunday night and then the onslaught of stimuli Monday takes time to adjust. Sleep well on Monday night and then rest of the week is fine. Tired also on Friday, but it's more of a giddy/fun tired as the weekend approaches.
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Tuesday. I hate Tuesdays.
 
temery said:
The number of teachers added to the faculty yearly whose job was to do anything but teach went up every year in my system.

One year my school was recognized for having the lowest student teacher ratio in the region. Class size was over 30. The reported ratio was 12:1.
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My district has a super, assistant super, director of academics and curriculum, MLL director, Socio-emotional learning director, around 10 instructional coaches, direct of student services, an attendance coordinator in each building, a Powerschool administrator, a "database specialist", psychology coordinator, 3 out of district liasons, a residency specialist and maybe 6 SPED directors.. And that's only the one's I can think of.

None of them work with children directly. This is AFTER cutting a ridiculous amount of positions over the past 6 months to meet the budget.
 
It's that gross time of the year here at school. Stomach bug is going around and there's this virus that everyone is getting: swollen lymph nodes in the neck, body/head aches, fatigue, and that's it. Not flu/strep/covid...
 
Hey Adrien! said:
It's that gross time of the year here at school. Stomach bug is going around and there's this virus that everyone is getting: swollen lymph nodes in the neck, body/head aches, fatigue, and that's it. Not flu/strep/covid...
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Hmm. Have a friend who is always sick and has a stiff neck and body aches out of nowhere.
 
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Hey Adrien! said:
It's that gross time of the year here at school. Stomach bug is going around and there's this virus that everyone is getting: swollen lymph nodes in the neck, body/head aches, fatigue, and that's it. Not flu/strep/covid...
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A couple of weeks ago I had a bad sore throat and my lymph nodes were a little swollen. felt back to normal in 2-3 days. it was very bizarre
 
Question for Middle School teachers.
My kid made the honor roll this marking period with a 91 average….which is the same average he had last marking period when he did not make the honor roll.

His school doesn’t go by a cumulative average. Instead, one has to have an 80% in every individual class (he had a 79% in one last marking period).

Is that the norm for middle school? Going by grades in the individual classes vs a cumulative overall average?
 
StllH8L8ner said:
Question for Middle School teachers.
My kid made the honor roll this marking period with a 91 average….which is the same average he had last marking period when he did not make the honor roll.

His school doesn’t go by a cumulative average. Instead, one has to have an 80% in every individual class (he had a 79% in one last marking period).

Is that the norm for middle school? Going by grades in the individual classes vs a cumulative overall average?
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I would check the student handbook and their rules for honor roll should be outlined in there.

I teach high school now, used to teach MS, but in order to get an Honors Diploma you have to get a C or higher in every class. A C- isn't considered a C. It is clearly outlined. So I would check.
 
StllH8L8ner said:
Question for Middle School teachers.
My kid made the honor roll this marking period with a 91 average….which is the same average he had last marking period when he did not make the honor roll.

His school doesn’t go by a cumulative average. Instead, one has to have an 80% in every individual class (he had a 79% in one last marking period).

Is that the norm for middle school? Going by grades in the individual classes vs a cumulative overall average?
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MS Math teacher here, our school doesn’t have honor roll (we run an IB-MYP 1-7 scale) but my guess each school has its own metrics.
 
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crazyUCfan23 said:
A couple of weeks ago I had a bad sore throat and my lymph nodes were a little swollen. felt back to normal in 2-3 days. it was very bizarre
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There's a nasty flu going around the school I teach at. I've been lucky to avoid it so far, but it seems the kids who get it are out for at least a full week of school.
I'm getting over a bad cold (sore throat, head ache), and there is also a different stomach bug going around as well. Last month, strep was finishing its rounds.
 
This flu has been literally the only sickness I didn’t get this year in the middle school, dropping like flies.
 
Hey Adrien! said:
MS Math teacher here, our school doesn’t have honor roll (we run an IB-MYP 1-7 scale) but my guess each school has its own metrics.
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Yeah that’s more of what I was getting at. I do know the metrics that our school uses, ie you need at least an 80% in every class to make the honor roll. I was just wondering if that was the norm around the region/country because I thought it was a little strange.
 
Spaceman213J said:
There's a nasty flu going around the school I teach at. I've been lucky to avoid it so far, but it seems the kids who get it are out for at least a full week of school.
I'm getting over a bad cold (sore throat, head ache), and there is also a different stomach bug going around as well. Last month, strep was finishing its rounds.
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Same with our school ever since the return from winter break. About half of our kids are international students and many travel far and wide during vacations, so to quote my primary care doctor: "you work in a ******* petri dish."

Case in point, in my seventh grade math class, six out of thirteen kids have missed 12+ days of school so far.
 
Hey Adrien! said:
It's that gross time of the year here at school. Stomach bug is going around and there's this virus that everyone is getting: swollen lymph nodes in the neck, body/head aches, fatigue, and that's it. Not flu/strep/covid...
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mono?
 
Hey Adrien! said:
MS Math teacher here, our school doesn’t have honor roll (we run an IB-MYP 1-7 scale) but my guess each school has its own metrics.
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Of course Hey Adrien is a math teacher!! Based on his work on the BY I will wager a damn good one too.
 
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I have missed 1 day this year. And had two PD days. Every day I'm absent we end up with 5+ suspensions. At this point if I'm sick they can just put me in the nurse with a mask and I can wag my finger at kids who misbehave from a bed
 
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Hey Adrien! said:
Same with our school ever since the return from winter break. About half of our kids are international students and many travel far and wide during vacations, so to quote my primary care doctor: "you work in a ******* petri dish."

Case in point, in my seventh grade math class, six out of thirteen kids have missed 12+ days of school so far.
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Anytime I see a kid put their hand to their mouth or a finger in their mouth I tell them the top two places for a kid to get a virus or bacteria are schools and hospitals. In the Lego Club that I lead, I had to tell a girl to wash and sanitize her hands a half dozen times in a half hour span because she kept poking her finger in to wiggle a loose tooth.
It's funny because the kids at my school really like me and want high fives, fist bumps and the rest and I may do an 'elbow bump' because I stand there watch all the gross things that they do.
 
Spaceman213J said:
There's a nasty flu going around the school I teach at. I've been lucky to avoid it so far, but it seems the kids who get it are out for at least a full week of school.
I'm getting over a bad cold (sore throat, head ache), and there is also a different stomach bug going around as well. Last month, strep was finishing its rounds.
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My wife is a Kindergarten teacher, my 2 year old is at a montessori school, the level of disease brought home and running through our householdthat have caused visits to the ER since Xmas have been a nightmare. around the New Year we all tested positive for Flu type A, My toddlers and mine escaltated to Bronchitis, my wife to pneumonia. My daughter then started finally getting better and went back to school for 2 days and immediately picked up an ear infection. They put her on antibiotics for 10 days, which she just finished on Monday, and yesterday she started coughing again and is running a fever. So here we go again. I am ready to set everything on fire and move into a concrete bunker and never go out in public again.
 
August_West said:
My wife is a Kindergarten teacher, my 2 year old is at a montessori school, the level of disease brought home and running through our householdthat have caused visits to the ER since Xmas have been a nightmare. around the New Year we all tested positive for Flu type A, My toddlers and mine escaltated to Bronchitis, my wife to pneumonia. My daughter then started finally getting better and went back to school for 2 days and immediately picked up an ear infection. They put her on antibiotics for 10 days, which she just finished on Monday, and yesterday she started coughing again and is running a fever. So here we go again. I am ready to set everything on fire and move into a concrete bunker and never go out in public again.
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Basically it's the same in my house old. Oldest kid had pneumonia around new years. Last week she had another fever around 102. Tested positive for Flu A. Gave it to my youngest. Both out of school for 2 days. 1 day goes by and I get the fever and chills and I'm out of school for 2 days.

2 more days go by and my oldest pukes in car waiting for bus. No fever, but pukes all day. I come home and my wife now has a 102 fever and is out of work for 2 days.

Many of my students have been out for 2+ days recently. It is crazy.
 
Curious to get some objective insight here. I'm 31 and getting pretty tired of my corporate job and debating a career change to teaching. I've always been interested in teaching even pre college but for one reason or another ended up going other routes.

Curious if anyone here has made that change, and beyond that if the teachers here think it's a worthwhile move. Not sure if it's too late to be making a move like this
 
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