Skip to main content

End of the year gossip

I was looking over a post from last year... reminding myself about the end of the year gossip. We're all bored with each other, the students and this whole teaching crap come June. What seemed so fresh and excited is now mundane. Another paper to grade. blah, blah, blah. So, of course we all turn to gossiping. I wish I could even remember what last year's scandals were. I'm sure the yearbook thing was some photo that somehow got by the censors... and there will be one in this year's, because that's just way yearbooks go. (my high school yearbook has a grainy photo of two guys fighting in the old cemetery - scandalous.)

I wish I gush about this year's, 'cause it's way juicy. Unfortunately, it's all gossip and no one really knows for sure... I will, however, dispense this advice. If you are a teacher and you also have a sideline business that is not "school appropriate," you definitely should not be participating in that business during school hours, on a school computer. Tempting, I know... but still a definite no-no.

Comments

Lady Strathconn said…
Oh come on...tell...nothing exciting has happened at our elementary school since the Rec Dept guy that all the moms were sleeping with/crushing on left.
4:42 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Summer Notes

Books to Read: New Kelly Gallagher   Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions  by Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana  Notes for Art: Group Project for the First Day Expectations from group project exit question
Post a Comment
Read more

“They Don’t Get It”

I hear that a lot these days. It used to be mostly from various teens trying to negotiate the drama unfolding in their lives as they wandered into that no-man’s land between adult and child. These days it’s from adults trying to navigate the education scene these days. So many people talking and no one listening. The other day I was reading a post by a blogger I’ve been following for several years. Before there was such a thing as “blogging.” We all know spring is IEP review season. This blogger wrote about his daughter’s. Among the various elements, there was the discussion about the state assessment tests. She did not pass. There was discussion about what this means… and why said student needed to pass this test. Would she be taking a modified test? While reading, all I could think about was what would happen to that child as she entered middle school and high school. A history of not passing the assessment test vs. teachers who will now be evaluated on how many students pass t...
Post a Comment
Read more