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All of our trips are paid by the parents/guardians. No PTA funds for trips. Of course there are some special circumstances when a child can't afford to attend and, as a teacher, I have always covered those myself. chaperones pay the same fee unless it's a place that doesn't charge for adults...

We do a monthly breakfast/lunch where we provide the food and there is one person on staff that always takes if upon herself to cut things in half. It's not due to a shortage of food at all. Muffins, cookies, bagels. All I want is a whole bagel. :sad1:

I just got back from a 4 day weekend in Boston. I've stayed in the city before and it is expensive. There were 7 of us going this time so we stayed in Andover, MA which is about a 20-25 minute drive to Boston. We also went to Maine and New Hampshire, so it was a central location for us. When...

When I was in high school those CoEd Naked shirts were very popular (I had one from Boston University that said 'Coed naked hockey...on the ice it's twice as nice') The field hockey coach at my high school ordered them for the team and they said something like 'make a pass on the grass'. One...

Every month we do one lock down drill and two fire drills. Twice a year we do an evacuation drill where we walk the entire student body to another school in the district. This has been going on since 9/11. I always discuss the lock down drills in the beginning of the year and reassure...

Slushies and hot pretzels. Only reason I ever had to go shopping with my mom.

Unless they are clearly marked xx items or less, then they are not express lanes. I love self checkouts. My regular grocery store doesn't have them, but I use them at BJs all the time. I did have a guy at BJs one time tell me that they were for people that only have a few items. I asked him...

I just booked two nights at the Renaissance Seaworld. Do they offer transportation to the hotel from the airport the way Disney does or should I plan on taking a taxi? Also, I need to rent a car after my two nights. Need suggestions for good rental car company that is closeby. We're...

I've given hockey, basketball and baseball tickets to my brother for various holidays and I give him one ticket and I keep mine. It's understood that we will go together and he has never complained. He's the only one I gift tickets to though. I think if you give more than one ticket, it...

This year was really bad for me. I had bronchitis, respiratory infections and colds from January until the end of April. I swear I don't think I had one week in those 4 months when I wasn't sick. My doctor told me that's what happens when you work in a petri dish of bacteria...I'm an...

I just bought Mickey Mouse head duct tape at ACMoore. You could probably create your own border with that. Just stick it to some sentence strips and you have homemade border.

In my school we have a bullying team of two teachers and two administrators. When an incident that is reported as bullying comes up, the team meets to determine if it really fits the definition of bullying. Because of the harsher consequences if it IS bullying, they are very careful to make...

I get to places when I am expected. I think it is completely rude for people to have a relaxed attitude with time when meeting others. I have a friend that is always late nd never apologizes for it. Recently I bought tickets for an event and they were so late that I left and told them I'd...

San Antonio, TX last week and I flew Southwest. Flight home was fabulous! Only about 50 people on a plane that held at least triple that number. Nothing better than having a row all to yourself :)

The 5 preps do not necessarily happen one per day. One year I had two days with 2 preps, one day with one and nothing on the other two days.

I've been hit with the race card a few times during my teaching career. I have a student this year that came to me one morning telling me that kids in the cafeteria at breakfast told him he stinks. So he comes up to me and says, "do I?" As he got closer and I took a whiff, I realized that...

I've done it both intentionally and accidentally. The accidental one happened at a bowling alley, but in my defense, the door was propped open and the bathroom was done in peach tile. It just looked like a women's room. I never saw the urinal going in, but when I came out of the stall, a...

It's very easy for people to say that they won't miss anything the first two days of school because it may seem like nothing is done in those beginning days of the school year. From a teacher's point of view, those first few days of school are some of the most important days of the year because...

A pregnancy is not a disability. But that's coming from someone that parks in those spots "reserved" for pregnant women and mothers with small children. Don't see the point of them.

I love Groupon and Amazon local. Use both all the time and never had a problem with either. I buy some goods but whenever the local bowling alleys have a deal, I grab as many as they allow.