OT: Teachers of Boneyard...Back to School Time

[Hey Adrien!]

Of course Hey Adrien is a math teacher!! Based on his work on the BY I will wager a damn good one too.

Thank you, sir!

 

[husky429]

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

 

[Spaceman213J]

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.

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.

 

[August_West]

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.

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.

 

[Minicoop69]

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.

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.

 

[navery12]

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