Comments on: Email to My Coworker, Who is Becoming a Teacher

By: sarabenincasa

sarabenincasa — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:04:00 +0000

Stephen, I didn’t know you were a teacher once upon a time! Man, it IS the hardest job…and you do need mental relief days. Anyone who says public school teachers have it easy has clearly never taught…at least not in the past 40 years. If they taught 40 years ago, maybe their brains are fuzzy and they can be forgiven their memory lapses.

Thanks for the link, Mark!

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:24:44 +0000

Very good advice on the Facebook and MySpace accounts; this article has a litany of ways to get into trouble with those.

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Americas/May-June-08/Teachers-Struggle-to-Separate-Private-and-Professional-Lives-Online.html

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:34:14 +0000

see my life where I felt and did the exact same rant/things.

I lasted one year. Tried to do another, but at the end of my succesful venture being wined and dined (they really need good drama teachers out here), my career ended when the principal, at the end of an hour-long, highly succesful interview, said “well, I think you’ve got it, but one thing…we’ll need you to do Yearbook also. Can you do that?”

“No. I’ll be directing 3 plays, including a full-scale musical. No.”

And thus ended my career.

Thank GOD. I’ve never been so rewarded and broken so many rules and punched my pillow SO HARD at 7am so many times. I took all of my vacation days, all my sick days, all my personal days, and had to be DOCKED two days that I took for my own mental sanity.

It’s not for everyone….but I still adore those teachers who did affect my life for the best. They were and are the true heroes of my life.