group work is Not It. I should have known better than to enroll in an engagement course that involves planning workshops with a group of other students……. guess who is doing all the work! :^) Back in tha day my teachers called me a ‘natural leader’… fun fact!!!! I am actually not! I do not like being in charge! it is actually just that people take advantage of me! Hope this helps

i love seeing your hockey postsssss i grew up near the big reds and their coach would sometimes drop in on our little league practices to give us tips. peace and love and going really fast and hitting with sticks

hehe im glad youve been enjoying them <333 ive kinda been a little desperate to talk abt hockey to ppl who arent completely clueless abt it. like my mom doesnt rly get it & my coworkers are all soccer fans. the only guy i can talk to is my freaking manager and he’s more of a football guy!! granted im still new to it myself but ive been working evenings a lot so its just been nothing but hockeyhockeyhockey in my brain since the end of february. whew. anyway ty!!! i WILL keep hockeyposting <3

Just remembered one of my friends from elementary school's mom didn't want me around her kid cause she thought I was a queer so she moved her to a different school

ya know it’s honestly funny and weirdly comforting when my friends call me a fake gremlin or green tea bitch because like despite that they still love me and like having me around

why did your sibling throw a chair at the elementary principal 🍿

So me (gender fluid)and my siblings (older brother and older nonbinary sibling(chair thrower) )all got in trouble a lot for not going to after school tutoring because it's boring as shit

Well the principal (who was a huge bitch who genuinely hated my family) literally stood in the doorway to prevent my sibling from getting to the bus to go home

So they picked up a stool and threw it at her, then dashed through the door

3 male staff ended up restraining my sibling and the principal threatened to call the cops until my mom showed up and diffused the situation

My sibling was in 4th grade, the entire situation was ridiculous

I can point to this asshole principal as the reason I don't trust authority to ever do the right thing, my sibling was suspended for 2 weeks and the principal got on my ass and my older brothers ass for every little thing going forward, I got lunch detention 3 times in a week for doodling on my homework

Anyways my sibling throwing a metal stool at her was one of the coolest things ever

back on my talking in the tags bullshit like it's 2015 🫡

Winterizing my house in preparation for Southeast Texas to freeze to a halt again. Literally. I don't have an ounce of faith in our grid that it will be able to handle two nights in a row a below 20° weather. Not to mention, I work in an outdoor campus. It's going to be around 20° when the kids have to get to school. Our hallways are outside. How's that going to work? Because I think the answer is it doesn't.

I got tagged by @yourlocal-charlatan to show off my handwriting with my favourite quote! I chose song lyrics, from Stable Song by Gregory Alan Isakov :)

I dunno how many people to tag so I'm tagging @yerbamansa , @nyxisadyke , @nevershootamockingbird , @lovewithagirl , @swallowtailed , @alfalfairy , @dragonmuse , and anyone else who wants to do it! (No pressure to do it of course)

Now I make no claims to have nice handwriting but I love my handwriting anyway lol

[ID: a photo of my handwriting in a lined journal. The ink used is green, and my handwriting is slanted printing with the odd cursive letter thrown in here and there. Two misspells are crossed out. The text reads:

Remember when our songs were just like prayers?

Like gospel hymns that you called in the air

Come down, come down, sweet reverence

Unto my simple house and ring

And ring

Ring like silver, ring like gold

Ring out those ghosts on the Ohio

Ring like clear day wedding bells

Were we the belly of the beast or the sword that fell?

We'll never tell

End ID.]

arospec culture is not being able to come out to your parents because you know that since you're not "fully aro" (might be comp allo tho efrgt) they might just brush you off

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what about teachers who are passionate about their students’ right to be able to read and comprehend text written for educated but nonspecialized adults, including tracking the nuances of literary writing, understanding paragraphs written in the nineteenth or [gasp] even eighteenth century, and following the ideas and arguments being put forth in informative or opinion-based pieces, which, imperfectly and inadequately to be sure but not ultimately to the point of failure, are the skills the SAT sets out to assess. what about teachers who feel passionately that students should encounter literary prose written for adults, articles in magazines and other publications written for the educated layperson touching on topics relating to science and social science, and literally any fucking text at all more than a hundred years old - aka the types of text that appear on the SAT - sometime before they graduate, and maybe ideally not just on SAT practice tests. what about them.

of a similar note really wild to realize that anyone younger than me also doesn't remember the bombing??? like yea if they've been alive during it it was probably subconsciously formative or whatever but they dont have memories of it like i do? which i mean....good??? that's good??? but its also REALLY WEIRD TO THINK ABOUT

So I was back to subbing at the elementary school today, which as I've mentioned is my favorite place to work. In some ways it's just the most comfortable to me; this is now my fourth year in a row I've had some kind of job associated with kids of that age group who attend that school, so I know a lot of the students and faculty. Actually, a lot of the faculty who work there today have been working there since I was a student.

Most of them recognized me immediately when I started showing my face there, like I didn't graduate from there over a decade ago, age 11. There was one para, who now works as a library assistant, but who used to monitor lunch and recess. I didn't remember her name but I knew her face. The first time she saw me subbing she was just like "oh, hi Diana."

I was talking to her this morning before school started because a first grade teacher unexpectedly called out, so I filled in for her for the first hour of the day before I started the job I clocked in for and a replacement could be found. But this library assistant usually leads the morning meetings with this first grade class and would help me with attendance and all those other beginning-of-the-day responsibilities.

She was saying to me "You know, why don't you work here full time? You're good with kids. You'd be good at it." In other small talk we'd had last year she had asked me similar things, like if I'd ever consider taking up a steady job at the elementary school, how my school was going, etc. I'm in between college right now but currently not taking classes. And I mentioned how I'm trying to take more sub jobs at the middle and high school so I get more well-rounded—that actually is the age group my education major is in. I've been working with the preschool-to-fifth-grade age range but my plan has always been middle-to-high school English.

And I was telling her about that, and I was like "You know what? When I tell people I want to teach older kids, some say to me stuff like 'oh you never know, you might change your mind'—and only recently I've been wondering if I really would. But I hate it when they're right!"

And that made her laugh. But it's true! I do really love working with the littles, as it turns out. Been doing it several years now. But in terms of anyone who's ever mentioned that to me unprompted, I wanna be like... hey, what do you know?!?!

i have my virtual interview thing for autism/adhd tomorrow, then next month i get to do 5 hour testing. at 8 in the morning. im gonna be half asleep the whole time, are the results gonna even be accurate with a tired slow brain💀

its funny watching abbott elementary when they do episodes about charter schools cus i went to a charter high school and it was..... so broke lmao. theyre like 'they have computer labs and field trips every month etc etc' and im like 😭 why didnt i get one like that lmao we didnt even have school buses. the only applicable thing so far has been the comment about very little oversight in the hiring process bc.. yea. v few certified teachers.

does anyone else remember 2004 computer game backyard skateboarding? the one where you could skate on like anything including but not limited to a roller coaster? bc i know i played that game and loved it but every time it comes to mind it feels like it was some kind of bizarre fever dream

My old school district started arming teachers and staff this year, you know to help prevent school shootings.

One of the teachers they decided to give a gun is known for being extremely explosive, and for throwing chairs and desks at students.

Another one that they armed is rumored to have a sexual relationship with a sophomore.

Wise choices.