Don't Complain About My Lack Of Output Today - I Spoil You Bitches Enough As It Is

I just haven't been posting anything all day. I have spent this Thursday planning and doing photocopying and lesson prep so I can be ready to start the dreaded FRACTIONS next week. Really proud of this group of students and the three ladies that I tutor twice a week in math. The tests aren't tough but you need to do the math step by step all the same way so that no gaps are left in your education if you hope to succeed and I think they got what it takes to make it. Of course their teacher is a freakin genius so they also have that going for them.

 

I need to get cards like this made up.

I forgot how much I miss those personal connections with the students. When I go over a personal essay that they have written they want validation for not only the effort but for the confession and I give out both generously but I also tell them where they can improve. There is always SOMETHING that can be rewritten better or made clearer. There are always examples you can add to flesh out your idea.

I am still on my education high after a great week. Also got my first cheque from them today and it's a sin how much they are paying me. Not that I am not worth every penny but still, I have no complaints. Great students, great administrators, great fellow instructors - it's my idea of heaven.

I would never go back into the snake pit that is a regular grade school or high school. I am not that man anymore. I did my decades in the trenches and survived it mostly intact. I still have the PTSD nightmares but not as often as I did when I actually WAS a full time teacher.

I can't fuck this job up. It's starting to matter to me. Go figure, eh?  I can't let the students fail because if they fail then I fail. And if I fail, all I will see in my brain is this little freak laughing at my pain.