Are the kids alright?

You snooze, you lose

Who's right here?

What kind of student were you in high school and college? When we talk about different types of students, we tend to only focus on two ends of the Bell Curve, both of which I wouldn't say I liked when I was in school. The first type is the overachiever. Don't get me wrong, I think it's noble and wonderful to try hard in school and get good grades, but I do not respect you if you're crying in class because you got a B+. The other type of kid is the delinquent, and those kids also irritated me. T…

Thanks, sweetie

Kids these days

It's finally over

As if teachers don't have it hard enough already...

I have the type of anxiety that makes me worried that I peaked in high school , even though I know I had a horrible time. My high school years had some positive moments, but my life got exponentially better once I graduated and moved far away from anyone I knew. There are some moments from high school I still think about, like my Senior prom , which was almost Carrie -esque in how traumatic it was, but that's a story for another day. Five years out from high school, I'm sitting pretty, knowing…

No students allowed

One of the hardest parts of being a teacher is that the work keeps coming and never stops coming . At a normal job, you clock in at 9 and leave at 5 without having to do extensive planning for days to come during the time you're not in the office. When you're a teacher, it's a completely different story. There's never time for not working. You have to grade papers, answer emails, create new assignments, work on lesson plans, meet with higher-ups, and that's not to mention having to teach classe…

You can almost taste the relief.