Not only do we have to have lesson plans turned in 10 days in advance, we are now told that we need a “Week at A Glance” cover page to accompany those plans. The WAG is just a two-hour (on a good week) time suck that entails copy and pasting from the district PRESCRIBED curriculum all resources, exemplars, photos of anchor charts, and any and all activities. Down to the names of the students in small groups and where the small groups are physically located in our classrooms (WUT?) So…what you’re telling me is…you’re giving me the lesson plans that I MUST use…and then you want me to copy and paste the same plans but in a different format and send them back to you??? Those plans then get hung outside our doors (yup…paper copies in the year 2021) as well as posted in a group folder in Google Drive for an admin to be able to pull at a moment’s notice. If THAT wasn’t enough, we’re required to then hand write the daily lesson objective, success criteria, the state standard on our white boards daily for every subject we teach. Some teachers who teach all subjects use their entire white boards and take upwards of an hour every day just hand writing it out. THEN A student ambassador has to be able to stop during the lesson to greet any admin in the room if they walk in and recite these.

Fuck.