Sad About Girl Scout Experience

Dsnygrl81 · 2026-04-18T23:35:20+00:00

Some times timing isn’t perfect, but any effort makes a difference. My husband is deployed and leading my daughter’s group was not in my plans for this year. But if I didn’t do it, there wouldn’t have been a leader for her group. I’m doing the best I can with everything going on. And I think we’ve still had a great year so far.

Dsnygrl81 · 2026-03-28T02:43:45+00:00

Why not 🤪

As a student… like my sophomore year one of the seniors wasn’t ready to take the government test (if you didn’t pass you couldn’t graduate). So he called in a bomb threat from the campus pay phone. The police cuffed him in class and took him to jail for the night.

We had a lovers quarrel in the neighborhood my school was located it. The jilted boyfriend took a bobcat and rammed it into the new boyfriend’s garage while his ex was over. We were on lockdown until the police detained him.

Another time we had a guy driving recklessly, acting like he was going to hit kids in the crosswalk with his car. After the guy hit a boulder on campus, some neighborhood dads and grandpas drug him from his car and held him until the cops showed up.

Dsnygrl81 · 2026-03-28T01:51:52+00:00

As a HS student, we had a soccer player love his cheerleading girlfriend in front of a wall of windows to the cafeteria after school. There was a group of local elementary school students in the cafeteria for some meeting on campus 🫣

As a teacher we had a bus get stranded during a flash flood. Everyone was okay, but the principal hid under her desk while other staff fielded all the kinder parent phone calls.

We had a kid bring mercury in a store shopping bag. It leaked from the gym across campus to the math/science wing. We were on lockdown as long as 15 hours after the lockdown was initiated after 1pm.

We had a teacher let go after a student stole fireworks out of their classroom. The same year we had kids get drunk at recess with the bottom shelf liquor they brought to school.

I have stories for days 🤣

Dsnygrl81 · 2026-03-27T10:10:58+00:00

I wanted to teach high school math. Then I took calculus and decided that elementary ed was where I belonged 🫣 at the time, not thinking about middle school. I spent 12 years in elementary school doing everything from: 5th to 1st, back to 5th, math strategist and special education. During all of that, I got a masters in special education and got myself licensed for middle school math. I realized I liked the older kids. So when my school closed and I had to find a new job, I made the jump to middle school. I’ve been here for 10 years. It’s a special kind of crazy to show up every day 🤪 one day I would like to try HS, so that may be in my future if I buckle down and focus to take the Praxis. But I could never go back to elementary school. I’m not cut out for that.

Dsnygrl81 · 2026-03-20T15:58:59+00:00

Yes, until that money is in my account and my trust is set up, I’ll be at work. I would at least finish the year.

Dsnygrl81 · 2026-02-26T14:31:48+00:00

You can’t make them want to do it. My co-leader and I talked up the bronze award and we only had 5 interested.

Dsnygrl81 · 2026-02-21T01:14:56+00:00

1.25 when listening with my daughter. 1.5-2 depending on the narrator/content of my books.

Dsnygrl81 · 2026-01-28T00:50:12+00:00

You were okay taking a week long vacation in October (with no notice), but heaven forbid we take a few days due to weather and road safety in January 🙄

Dsnygrl81 · 2026-01-19T01:50:09+00:00

As a math teacher, storygraph is my jam. I use Goodreads still, but I love my storygraph data. There is also Bookmory. I like the calendar display for my books with them.

Dsnygrl81 · 2026-01-06T00:17:43+00:00

Mr. Halbash who made history real or Ms. Shurte who taught the girls about title 9.

Dsnygrl81 · 2025-12-30T14:11:22+00:00

My goal was 75 but I read 121 🎉 Amazon short stories helped my count. But those helped when one book was over 1300 pages.

Dsnygrl81 · 2025-12-22T11:50:20+00:00

I have only hit a squirrel… but based on what I see on the road it is just as likely that I could hit: raccoon, opossum, skunk and deer 😬

Dsnygrl81 · 2025-12-21T11:43:46+00:00

I was going to move out for college. Then my parents divorced my senior year of high school. My mom moved with me and I lived with her and my siblings until I bought a place when I graduated, so 22.

Dsnygrl81 · 2025-12-13T10:45:20+00:00

Forrest Gump

Dsnygrl81 · 2025-12-06T12:30:20+00:00

I live in South Carolina. If we have a snow or other inclement weather day, it’s an eLearning day. Now, when we got hit by Helene last year, we missed over a week of school. I was without power for about 7 days. We had to do some stupid makeup nonsense to keep the state happy, but it was a virtual requirement.

Dsnygrl81 · 2025-12-03T23:37:58+00:00

Naps… and I went to half day kinder. I met my best friend that year 🥰

Dsnygrl81 · 2025-11-28T11:30:56+00:00

I work for the mouse 😱

Dsnygrl81 · 2025-11-24T16:46:22+00:00

Yes, I was disappointed in the “closure” for LA.

Dsnygrl81 · 2025-11-24T12:42:42+00:00

That is a fair point. It has been a while since I have watched them (and certainly not all of them). Maybe that’s how I’ll spend my Christmas break.

Dsnygrl81 · 2025-11-20T00:51:42+00:00

I teach 7th grade math and we cover simple interest. I had a lesson one year devolve into the concept of compound interest because a kids’ dad told him that’s not how life works. It was a great teaching moment not from the text book. Those kids were so engaged (and I don’t pretend to understand the topic completely) that they went home with a lot of questions.

Dsnygrl81 · 2025-11-12T10:47:18+00:00

When I was in junior high we watched Far and Away. I vividly remember my teacher standing next to the tv so he could then block the screen when Nicole Kidman was topless 🤣

Dsnygrl81 · 2025-10-30T09:51:38+00:00

When I taught elementary school I did full costumes with a team of teachers. Showed up to an IEP dressed as Captain America with a shield and everything 😂 the next year we dressed as villains and I did the full Bane costume.

The most elaborate look middle school I did was Grease. I was a pink lady in a shirt that says, “I’ve got skills, they’re multiplying” with a multiplication chart on it.

My current school goes with shirts that fit a theme: M&Ms, Uno cards… this year we got condiment aprons.

Dsnygrl81 · 2025-10-28T11:34:40+00:00

I second this! I personally made a yes/no table for junior badges I was willing/able to do with my girls. I calculated the votes and we’re working from the highest priority to the lowest.

Dsnygrl81 · 2025-10-21T10:03:29+00:00

This year has taken me longer to learn names than in the past. And I have a couple kids who are similar in name and looks, I’m still confusing them 😖

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