The Monday Meltdown - where you take anything which is raising your blood pressure and let your true feelings be known. Rant it out. Let your voice be heard. We all hate Mondays. Let's use Monday for something absolutely useful. Telling someone or something where to go!
The Meltdown has undergone a bit of a change. I don't know what number I'm on, so I'm just going to date it. And I'm not going to give you an issue. Take mine, if you like, or use your own. Comment on mine, tell *me* where to go. It's all kosher. (=
My meltdown after the bump, as per usual.
I hate my school. And when I say I hate it, I mostly hate how the school administration and the school guidance counselors cater to the students. Granted, to an extent, it's part of thier job description. But there's a limit. At some point, you cross the line and allow the students to dictate to the teachers. And that is just not a line which should be crossed.
We are supposed to not only be teaching them the core subjects, we are also supposed to be teaching them about real life. Deadlines, how to
work with others, how to take responsibility for one's actions, time management.
And we aren't doing that any more. I am supposed to be "sensitive" to the needs of hte students. I am supposed to realize they are overwhelmed and perhaps cut back on the homework. I am supposed to realize the students are struggling and perhaps make it easier by lowering the bar. I am supposed to say nothing when a student drops my class andgets a free pass on a grade as they take a completely different class, not having to worry about the grade they rightfully earned appearing on their report card. I am supposed to kowtow to their every whim, allow them to do whatever they want because they are so uncertain about their lives. I am supposed to reteach them and allow them to try things again, replacing the old grade.
What the fuck.
Get real.
Life does not
work that way.
You deal with your own shit on your own time. Personal issues? Great. Leave them at home. Problems with the workload? Sorry. Deal with it yourself. Problems doing the
work? Better fix that really fast - on your own damn time - or you'll need a new job. Not good with deadlines? Better be, or you are going to need a new job.
No job I know of will allow you "extra time" for something. No job I know of will allow you to try something over without a penalty. No manager/supervisor/etc is going to sit there and take any shit you deal out because you are used to not having to worry about dealing with your own shit.
Real life is not made of one-ups, children.
Wake up and smell the reality. Because it is going to bite you in the ass.
Soon.
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Posted by: Pandora - 12.15.2008 - 1:54pm - Permalink - Comments (2)
Posted in: Meltdown
I was just listening to the radio and they were discussing the election.
Here's what they were discussing...
That the people who run the election are trying to get as prepared as possible.
IE, making sure the voting machines are working, enough people working the elections to make sure the voting goes as quickly as possible, etc.
Why?
Because if Barack Obama doesn't win, they are afraid there will be an outcry that the election was fixed - against him.
Really?
Do we have people in our American Public THAT ignorant? To think that, in 2008, at THIS point in our country's history, we'd fix an election against ANYONE? Much less a black man?
What.
The.
Hell.
I hate this country sometimes.
(Because, even as I typed that, I knew that we did. Dear Goddess.)
I'm moving. Which country wants a new citizen? Because, really, if I can't go vote in an election without having to worry about a riot breaking out due to the outcome....
Posted by: Pandora - 10.23.2008 - 6:15am - Permalink - Comments (2)
Posted in: Blog365, Real Life
Seriously?! To my Attendance Lady:
If you have taken the time to figure out that I've marked a student present when he/she should be marked absent, why do you not just fix it yourself rather than exit out of the program, then open email to email me to tell ME to change the attendance? Seriously? How much extra work did you just create for the both of us? You had it right there....
Yeesh.
First:
New prime number! 43,112,609
How the mathematicians even figured this one out, I don't even know, but - to all geeks everywhere - new prime number! :D
Second:
The Redskins won their game versus the Cowboys - in Dallas. What the hell. Who knew? (I'm not even a football fan and I knew they weren't supposed to do that....)
Third:
AGH!
Yoshi!
Danalyn! HALP! Those stupid nonsense comments are back. What can I do?! )=
Fourth:
Daniel! We need a chat date!
Posted by: Pandora - 09.29.2008 - 4:22am - Permalink - Comments (0)
Posted in: Blog365, Random
It's been seven years since the day the whole world turned upside for an entire country.
It was a tragic event. Not only did people lose loved ones, an entire country lost the feeling of being safe at home.
I get it.
However.
Can we let go a little bit?
Anyone?
Can the date 11 September go by without tributes and memorials services and whatnot? Without the entire newscast being dedicated to what happened and what's happening now?
Please. PLEASE. Lord have mercy.
Flame me if you want, but I'm so ready for people to grieve without the media telling them to do so. That'd be absolutely fabulous.
Ugh.
Maybe I don't get it. Maybe I just have no patriotism. (Yeah. Sure, I don't.) Maybe it's just because I live in the DC area. I imagine New York is the same.
I just - ugh.
I'm tired of it. Tired of all of it. No, I didn't lose anyone. Is that the problem? I have no sense of loss, so I just don't care?
Who knows. But - it's my blog, and I say ....
ENOUGH ALREADY!
(Wait. Didn't I say this last year.... No, I guess not. I thought I posted about it last year, but no. I looked. (; So, I just must have told someone. Same frustration last year. :/ )
Go on. Flame me. I can take it.
Posted by: Pandora - 09.11.2008 - 4:37am - Permalink - Comments (7)
Posted in: Blog365, Real Life
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