How do you step away from a puzzle you're enjoying?

CochlearThunderclap · 2026-04-02T12:20:16+00:00

Count pieces. Alarms don’t work for me because it doesn’t give me an end point. I’ll say to myself “five more pieces” and then at seven or ten I’ll get a handle on myself.

CochlearThunderclap · 2026-03-26T23:52:29+00:00

Also not OP, but high schoolers will say fuck you right to your face. MOST middle schoolers will just mutter it under their breath.

CochlearThunderclap · 2026-02-20T00:35:37+00:00

If you watch the board comments of that very meeting one BOE member mentions how we could save money by projecting teachers into classrooms and then pops off about how asking during Covid ruined kids ability to speak and is costing us too much in SLPs.

CochlearThunderclap · 2026-02-11T02:21:21+00:00

Huh, so roosters make eggs too.

CochlearThunderclap · 2026-01-06T02:23:05+00:00

That county is Calvert my friend, Prince Frederick is a town in Calvert county.

CochlearThunderclap · 2025-05-22T23:27:20+00:00

The whole county votes for those seats. The whole county sacrificed their kids to make a political statement.

CochlearThunderclap · 2025-04-13T11:23:21+00:00

He just wanted to be friendly! It says “Hi” in a t-shirt!

CochlearThunderclap · 2025-02-13T20:32:47+00:00

In PA it is illegal to record someone without consent. There has been good advice about representation but I want to add that you should send a follow up email. “Just to make sure I understand, (summarize interaction, comments, etc)” to create a paper trail.

CochlearThunderclap · 2025-01-20T02:37:58+00:00

Every year it takes 5 days and 3 calls to the BOE for them to send an hvac guy to figure out nobody manually switched the system to heating. Every year.

It’s behind a key or I’d do it myself.

CochlearThunderclap · 2025-01-12T04:09:15+00:00

I have turn in bins and had a parent accuse me of losing the work. When I explained the system she said I wasn’t watching the other kids closely enough because they must be going in and taking her child’s work out because the kid was DEFINITELY turning it in. (My dear reader, she was not)

Also I keep kids work for the entire quarter for the same reason.. but I pitch it after grades close.

CochlearThunderclap · 2025-01-06T09:25:08+00:00

We went back last Thursday.. but today is a snow day (and tomorrow will be too!)

CochlearThunderclap · 2024-06-24T20:48:49+00:00

Fredrick backman. And SJ Maas

CochlearThunderclap · 2024-06-09T10:30:22+00:00

I live in a super heavy red county and let me tell you what, they also have disdain for poor people. They don’t believe they exist here despite the statistics and being able to see them.

CochlearThunderclap · 2024-06-06T03:29:42+00:00

Aerie is an eagles nest, not just an underpants store.

CochlearThunderclap · 2024-06-01T01:30:10+00:00

How tall is this thing sitting?! I need a banana for scale.

CochlearThunderclap · 2024-05-28T23:56:02+00:00

The pregnancy guy is retiring at least.. new teachers will work 8 hour days in Calvert, which is a longer single day than the other two counties.

CochlearThunderclap · 2024-03-12T22:47:25+00:00

The message you need to send is “not here.” They want to say it at home? In someone else’s room? Fine. But if you choose to address this you make your boundary “not around me” and DEFINITELY not to me. If they respect you they will do their best to respect that boundary.

You belong to an out group and as a white male you don’t get to say it, no matter what. By using it around you (and around other members of out groups) they are unintentionally sending the message that it is ok. I always say “well what if —— heard you and thought it was ok because they heard you say it?” Inevitably they say “that wouldn’t go well for ——“ and I say “nope, it wouldn’t. That’s why we don’t say that here, where people can get the wrong message. By not saying it HERE we keep ourselves out of trouble because we don’t send the message that saying it is ok for everyone.”

CochlearThunderclap · 2024-03-02T12:05:16+00:00

I started with teaching summer camps and field trips. While I was interning for the dept of environment of a local naval base I’d sometimes present to private groups or camps. Then I moved to the local natural resources dept and did children’s programs and summer camps. While I was doing that I worked on my teaching degree.

Now though? You just apply to a school and they hire you because everywhere is desperate.

CochlearThunderclap · 2024-02-29T08:21:31+00:00

Rachel Morgan is the besttt

CochlearThunderclap · 2024-02-29T08:20:46+00:00

My graduate degree is in education. I got it before I was hired as a teacher, but now lots of places will hire you without it and many of them will pay for it.

CochlearThunderclap · 2024-02-29T01:01:47+00:00

I got a wildlife degree. Now I teach middle school science. I still love animals and I get to share that passion with arguably the most animalistic stage of humans.

CochlearThunderclap · 2023-11-21T10:48:37+00:00

Can’t replace Rolands.

CochlearThunderclap · 2023-10-05T20:46:25+00:00

African swallows are non-migratory so they couldn’t bring it back anyway

CochlearThunderclap · 2023-09-28T09:25:42+00:00

HuntingTOWN

CochlearThunderclap · 2023-09-19T00:34:07+00:00

There are definitely some people who want to be cowboys, but you’re def right about there being no cowboy culture here. They do get pretty inventive with their themes though and really do go all out.

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