What a day...

[crazycanuck]

Trigirl-tis ok to vent. I have no idea what else you could do with a teaching degree ? What about in your state education office? Can you do more training (yes, ok $$$ ) or eventually return to school? Would you consider moving overseas for a different perspective.

V & TG-I admire you for sticking with the kids. I know i'd jump out a window or go do the Appalaichan trail (Bib track here in WA...)

[derailed]

To the teachers: Hang in there!

I went to school with a *bad bunch*, and defensive parents. We had a kid bring a gun to school, lots of drug problems, pregnancies. We had entitlement problems, we had parents calling teachers to raise heck. We had cars vandalised, kids giving more than lip, and all types of drama.

Some of those kids aren't with us anymore. Others have grown up to turn their lives around. I run into people who made teachers' and students' lives complete nightmares.

Some of these horrid place holders aren't worth the time of day, I agree. However, you will be surprised and delighted at which ones turn things around and make a positive stamp on the world around them. You may be more surprised at how many of them remember you as the best thing that ever happened to them.

Respect is so far outside these kids' experience that they think it means fear. They won't show it, so they try to force others to feel it.

All my best wishes of strength and fortitude to you.