ParyFromSaturn, I'm entrusting your envelope to my husband to mail on Saturday...I'm going to be working thirteen hours tomorrow and in a vacation-induced frenzy on Monday and Tuesday when I usually mail them!
I hope you can pace yourself tomorrow.Wow! going to New Zealand. Have a great trip!
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Quasi123 - Thank you for the envie!
Sumithomp - I did mail you out 3 envelopes at the beginning of the week.
kids start 18th here in KS, we get out first week of June. I can't possibly get my room ready just a couple days before...I need to go in and start setting up all of the ideas I've been working on and shopping for this summerGood golly Miss Molly!
You're already setting up your classroom?! When does teachers' workshop officially start and when's the first day of school?
Whewie, that sounds way too soon! DH doesn't head back until 8/30 for teachers' workshop and the day after Labor Day with the kids. Can summer be so close to being over?
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Another teacher here. We had inservice days the starting the week of July 19th. Two days a week. Last Monday we went back on full contract and our kids start this Monay with 1/2 day and full time on Tuesday. I alwayswhen people say, "What are you complaining about, you get 3 months off in the summer?" Uh, NO. We end the regular year the last week of May. I teach summer school the entire month of June, and inservice and professional development start the last 2 weeks of July. We are on full contract the fist Monay of Aug. and kids are back the 2nd.
It's always over way too soon.
The preception of all the summer time off as a benefit to teacher is my second most frustrating soap box topic. The top of the list is:
What do they want more money for they only work from 8am-3pm for 9 months out of the year? (I wish!) The base pay for our county, with a Master's degree, is 30k a year. I made more than that as a day care director. Money was not the reason I became a public school teacher, but we all need to pay the bills.
I know preaching to the choir.
Stepping down from the soap box.Sorry.
My 13 hour day is probably not as brutal as it sounds...I work for a foster care agency, so the first half of the day is a party/picnic for our foster kids (expecting 450 people!) and the second half of the day is sitting at a booth at a country fair talking to people about why they should take one of our foster kids into their homes! Sometimes I wonder why they pay me to have fun like that...