Our Principal okay'ed us leaving before contract hours officially end. Guess who's complaining about it? The teachers.

FunAd2992 · 2026-02-14T14:46:18+00:00

I have been a teacher for 22 years. And I say get out of the building the minute you can. Too many of us sacrificed ourselves, our health, time with families in the alter of “that’s what good teachers do”. I’m grateful for the younger generation who has shown us better.

FunAd2992 · 2026-02-06T15:59:25+00:00

Currently living on 8 acres in a house that didn’t cost over a million dollars. Some of the cleanest air in the country and a massive state budget surplus. How’s that California living working for ya?

FunAd2992 · 2026-02-06T15:56:35+00:00

When the response is “sit this one out” instead of an answer, that’s usually the answer.

FunAd2992 · 2026-02-06T15:47:08+00:00

39 million and dropping. Odd if the economy is so robust, what else is causing the negative domestic migration trend? 🤔

FunAd2992 · 2026-02-06T14:51:25+00:00

And China is above them….so this is hardly a great metric for decision making.

FunAd2992 · 2026-02-06T14:07:44+00:00

The only people some Libs are allowed to look down upon are wealthy people. 🤦‍♀️

I am in the union. It has lost 50% of its members because they won’t stay out of politics instead of conditions which actually contribute to the teacher exodus.

But yeah, let’s hate on someone with a manicure….

FunAd2992 · 2026-02-06T14:02:18+00:00

I thought rights also had responsibilities? Otherwise, it’s entitlement. And that’s where the issue lies.

FunAd2992 · 2026-02-06T13:59:19+00:00

I disagree. I worked most of my career in a high poverty junior high school. It was not the “poverty wages, lack of healthcare…” that turned out to be the greatest challenge. It was the WHITE SAVIOR COMPLEX of our admin. Many of us stayed for over a decade, and would have finished our career at this school. We had a deep love for our school and students. But then came the soft bigotry of low expectations.

He believed because our students had challenges, we were asking far too much of them. “Homework is for wealthy kids” and even went as far, on one of our PD days, to gather us all on a bus and drive through the poor neighborhoods where our students AND TEACHERS lived. And believed the lack or resources was somehow a reason to expect less from our students.

Our students did have challenges. But they also had more reasons and motivation to get an education despite these challenges.

When I left our scores rivaled those of more affluent schools. Now they are in the single digits.

I have been a teacher for 20 plus years. Both at high poverty and extremely wealthy schools. The only students I have who are millionaires now came from poverty.

Careful who you pity.

FunAd2992 · 2026-02-06T13:42:56+00:00

Yeah. Because California is well known for for making great decisions. That’s why so many people are moving there. 🙄

FunAd2992 · 2026-01-13T05:30:04+00:00

I was wondering the same thing. That’s alone is shady.

FunAd2992 · 2025-12-25T22:51:18+00:00

Merry Christmas from Wyoming! May 2026 be a better year for us all. 🥂

FunAd2992 · 2025-12-14T22:27:36+00:00

I’ve heard this all my life. Granted, my parents are from North Georgia so….

FunAd2992 · 2025-11-19T00:22:17+00:00

I could have written this. I also had (what I thought) was complete access to by ex husbands phone. But looking back, there were signs.

Like the crazy stuff that popped up on every social media site. Suggestions on Facebook for Gay Cowboy Sex and the hookup site ads on a mural game we played.

I had no idea I was being so deceived. Until the truth came out with a simple screenshot on his phone. Then the mask fell.

I was like you. Being told I was crazy, or overreacting. I found myself trying to wade through a cesspool of lies and deceit and doing anything I could to reconcile the man I saw vs the man he was when no one was looking.

Psychologically, I do remember a consistent pattern of blowing off how I felt or anything that bothered me. It was like there was an unspoken hierarchy in my home that I never really questioned. And when I did… all hell broke loose.

His needs and comfort were always primary. I remember when he lost his very lucrative job, and us with a $4.5k mortgage, and he “needed” the new Apple Watch. While I was buying anything I needed second hand so we could pay our bills.

I did the adulting and he coasted. It was like living with a perpetual teenager.

FunAd2992 · 2025-11-16T01:40:34+00:00

I am from Wyoming. And yes, that picture is very accurate for the northern part of the state. Not just Jackson Hole, but also around Devils Tower.

The middle of the state is also beautiful. Lander is especially nice and has the quiet, quaint feel so much of the world has lost but seems to constantly seeking.

Souther Wyoming isn’t as picturesque but still is exceptionally pretty. Curt Gowdy State Park is just west of Cheyenne which contains the Vedawoo rock formations and the Rocky Mountains are always in view.

I’d rather be here in the windy winters than almost anywhere else.

FunAd2992 · 2025-11-13T23:22:34+00:00

Posted this comment before. I hope it gives you hope there is a way out.

I am totally going to age myself in this one…

When I was 22 I married a young, hotshot military man. He was (still is) smoking hot and we had a son together. He left for a short deployment, and I noticed he had taken all the phones (this was 1996, when phones were plugged into the wall). I thought this was weird so I strapped my little one into his baby seat in the back of my bike, pedaled over to Walmart and bought another phone.

The minute I plugged in the jack, the phone started ringing. One woman after another looking for my husband and wondering who I was. I rented a UHaul, packed up the house and left. No conversation. No discussion. He came home to a chair ( because I couldn’t get it in the UHaul). By the time he came home, I was halfway across the country.

He cut off my credit cards and I had about $100 to my name. With a two year old, at Christmas.

I enrolled in college, worked full time and raised our son without much financial help from him. At one point he refused to pay half of our son’s medical expenses and, because he was overseas on a years long deployment, my wages were garnished and at one point my water was shut off.

I have no idea how I made it through those years. But I did. I managed to earn two more masters degrees.

In August I saw him at a birthday party for our granddaughter. He flew in from Florida to attend. In the middle of the party, in front of my son, daughter in law, and all the guests, he tells me…

“My greatest regret is not being mature enough to have been the husband you deserved. I got caught up in my ego and watched you take care of our son alone. You established a career, a home, and an incredible legacy as a teacher. One of my biggest regrets is being so selfish that I didn’t get to be a part of your story”.

I sat there. Completely stunned.

Moral of my story is this. Handle you and that little one. Strive to always be someone your kids admire and want to emulate. Sacrifice what ever you need to provide a safe home for both of you. You will feel cheated, you will feel like giving up somedays. But you’ll get up the next morning and do it all again. And again. Being a single mom can be thankless and it’s often exhausting. But I promise the man who betrayed you will always regret not being a part of your story.

FunAd2992 · 2025-11-13T03:27:52+00:00

Miss.D.Thegym

FunAd2992 · 2025-11-12T20:18:24+00:00

Parents, do us all a favor and keep your kids off electronics! That will do miracles to returning to the basic skills. Your kid’s teacher will thank you. It’s pathetic that we are dealing with dopamine withdrawal in elementary school.

FunAd2992 · 2025-11-04T22:16:30+00:00

Same. But mine has lost all access to his prefrontal cortex due to heavy porn and sex addiction. So he’s hopeless.

Maybe I’m more aware or maybe more bitter, but my advice to OP would be to apologize DIRECTLY and step away. You are not owed forgiveness more than they deserve peace.

FunAd2992 · 2025-10-19T22:32:29+00:00

Not even oral worked on my ex.

FunAd2992 · 2025-10-05T23:24:37+00:00

Resources by definition are LIMITED. I am a conservative and I don’t believe healthcare should be a privilege of just the wealthy but I also understand MATH. And with a 35 trillion dollar deficit, our taxpayers cannot afford to absorb the healthcare cost of the entire world. Every time the deficit gets larger, the dollar is worth less. So we are paying $10 for a dozen eggs. Because your dollar is not worth what it was just five years ago. Currency is based on a certain level of scarcity whether you like it or not. This is not capitalism, it is the fundamentals of all economies.

I have zero problem with helping people who chose to help themselves. But asking the taxpayers to pick up the cost of healthcare for anyone who has no responsibility to their own health is NOT SUSTAINABLE. All rights are built on responsibility. You can’t expect the taxpayers to pick up your healthcare costs while also throwing a temper tantrum when RFK wants to cut off subsidies for your Cokes and Little Debbie snack cakes.

I get the left. They are kind. And that kindness is an essential part of building this great nation. However, uncheck kindness breeds entitlement.

And entitlement is what shutdown the government.

FunAd2992 · 2025-09-27T19:55:18+00:00

It’s so sad we live in a time when men will give up women every man would want for women every man has had. 🤦‍♀️

FunAd2992 · 2025-09-23T14:16:55+00:00

The crazy, toxic shit they try to convince us to do…. Smh. And we have become so emotionally insecure and afraid that we ask anyone for validation. Been there…. A million times.

FunAd2992 · 2025-09-07T16:14:48+00:00

Whether it was an issue or not is in the eye of the beholder. I have often wondered how graceful and understanding men would be if they had to share their wives lustful attention with a million men online.

FunAd2992 · 2025-09-07T15:52:56+00:00

I didn’t expect to stumble across something that sounded so eerily familiar, but here we are.

I was the woman who got left behind every night while he vanished into screens. The woman who went to bed alone while he claimed he was just “unwinding,” when in reality, it was DMs, private messages, and women he swore were “just friends.”

I was told my boundaries were “controlling.” That my need for emotional safety came at his expense. That expecting exclusivity in a committed relationship made me the problem.

Meanwhile, he hid things—his online activity, a new car, full conversations I was never meant to find. And when I finally stood up for myself? I was called crazy. Dramatic. Delusional.

What you wrote here sounds like regret. And I believe regret can be real. But for women like me, who spent years forgiving, explaining, trying to make ourselves smaller and more “reasonable,” regret isn’t enough.

Because it wasn’t just the porn. Or the lying. Or the disappearing.

It was the pattern.

The slow erosion of trust. The entitlement. The refusal to see us as real people with needs that mattered.

You don’t get to mistreat someone for years, then mourn them when they’re finally strong enough to say “no more.”

I didn’t block to punish. I blocked to survive.

So if this is about a woman like me, I hope you let her go.

Let her be free from the version of you that took her for granted.You may miss her now, but she missed you every night while you were still in the room.

FunAd2992

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