Today Was My Last Day Of Work Until August 3rd

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:fworks: :pepper: :fworks:


We only had to go for an hour today so I came home and cleaned like a white tornado.


Now I'm pooped and my feet hurt.


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Congrats! What are you gonna do with all of your free time?
 
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Cool girl!!!! Lets party!!!!!! My girls go to private school and they dont start back until the 1st of Sept.
 
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Hey, owb, I think LiO should take a little summertime trip to Washington, D.C. with stops in K-Town, A-Town, and R-Town.

What do you think? :question:
 
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Actually, my plans for the summer are to do AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE.


I'm TIRED!!!

We go on vacation June 2nd till June 12th and I have a couple of days of inservice after that, but other than that all I have to do is keep my daughter from being bored out of her mind.
 
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just kiddin hun...in truth...i cant believe how teachers are so underpaid and under valued. They touch the minds of the next generation as much as parents in some cases...and yet theyre compensated like a entry level accountant. Most use teachers as babysitters.....my ex sis in law and her husband were both teachers, her husband a principal with a masters degree....with some OT i made as much driving a forklift...I find that incredible.
 
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Dan..nice post and I agree. My niece graduated from UNC-Wilmington and is now teaching...amazing the pay she had to start out with, knowing she is molding our future generation.
 
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Part of me knows that this is where I'm supposed to say "It's not about the money." or "Teaching has other rewards besides money." and I DO believe both those statements. If money was my object, I'd have quit long before now and gone back to school for another degree. BUT, it IS pathetic, in my opinion, when the government publishes only negative statistics about public schools and public school teachers and acts like we are supposed to work miracles with $2.00 and a piece of construction paper. I wouldn't mind so much the low salary if they would just fund the schools to be better equipped fofr learning.

But don't get me started on THAT or we'll be here all day.

:p
 
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it amazes me that we (Tennessee) is ranked #1 for highways and transportation and 47th for education! whats wrong with that picture?
 
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could be worse....drive west of the mississippi river sometime.....and the education rank is about the same id wager
 
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Dan4vols, I have heard stories about Mississippi schools (stories, mind you) that made me cringe. I also listened to a presenter at a workshop talk about how bad it was in the mountains of Kentucky that it made me want to pack up and move up there to help them. It was in 2000 and she said that there were schools in the mountains that had textbooks with missing covers/pages and their only technology was a telephone. According to her, the kids still came to school shoeless and with absolutely no supplies. It was very hard for me to believe that conditions like that still existed in America today. Maybe she just told us all that to keep us from griping about OUR conditions.

Who knows?
 
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I have seen documentaries on the state of living in the states of the deep south, Mississippi and Louisiana in particular. It's amazing how impoverished some of those areas are.
 
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Originally posted by milohimself@May 22, 2005 4:52 PM
I have seen documentaries on the state of living in the states of the deep south, Mississippi and Louisiana in particular. It's amazing how impoverished some of those areas are.
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probably true,....the system is gonna ride the back of the teachers as far as it will go before its overhauled....sad but true I think.
 
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Originally posted by la.lovesorange@May 22, 2005 6:36 PM
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I forget where they were, but there were some levels of poverty in those areas that I just flat-out thought wasn't possible inside US borders.

I'm not using it as an attack against those states or the region in particular, just as a comment that was related to the topic.
 
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I had a student this year who lives in abject poverty, but his parents won't accept help. I did what I could within the boundaries of what I was allowed, but I wish I could rescue that litle boy.

:(


 
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To the topic of this post,

On behalf of those who work real jobs...YOU SUCK! (but we luv ya anyway)
 
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Originally posted by Volstorm@May 23, 2005 10:17 PM
To the topic of this post,

On behalf of those who work real jobs...YOU SUCK! (but we luv ya anyway)
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Yeah...I can tell. :angry:


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Hey LiO, for all you do both here and in the classroom....... :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub:
 
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