Today was a fairly good day from a teaching standpoint, but from the standpoint of a teacher, it was highly frustrating. My Read 180 class had an assessment, so that was easy. My English 12 classes where tasked with starting their persuasive papers, and I was able to have some good conversations with many of my students on their writing and where this last paper was going. I did give them a "do or die" due date, so hopefully they will take that seriously and not fail their last paper due to complete and other slothfulness.
I want to go on a rant about the lack of voice I feel my colleagues and I have, but I am using a rare moment of good judgement and refraining. I will just say that its very irritating when we are told we are the best around, our opinions are asked about issues, and then the complete opposite is done. It's not quite as big a grievance as it was last year, but it's constant. We are being beaten not down, but into apathy. I'm tired of feeling like a ghost in the fog.
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