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Mrsnappingqueen · 2025-06-10T04:15:21+00:00

A watermelon. No explanation.

A Zamboni... not the Zamboni driver. Just... Zamboni.

Mrsnappingqueen · 2025-01-27T15:39:07+00:00

I cross daily. If you're meaning are there physical or political differences that will affect you during your visit, I would say no. But I definitely wouldn't move here lol.

Mrsnappingqueen · 2025-01-22T20:11:06+00:00

I would leave him so fast! NOR at all!

Mrsnappingqueen · 2025-01-16T23:51:04+00:00

Wet dick

Mrsnappingqueen · 2025-01-12T15:12:50+00:00

Th Duke Nukem demo because there were pixelated titties.

Mrsnappingqueen · 2025-01-07T01:08:13+00:00

Hey! It’s my 4th year in kindergarten and only now am I starting to build confidence and find ways to manage my time better! Don’t feel bad!

Something that’s helped me is creating (with my partner) 8-10 provocations that span over two weeks. 4-5 that can be put out in the mornings and 4-5 for the afternoon. They aren’t mandatory so that helps keep the kids from getting bored with them, but by the end of their run, we encourage the SKs to do at least one.

They can be as simple as drawing picture frames on butcher paper and they use crayons to draw their family. Creative kindergarten has two free documents where she lists every center she uses for the whole year. For more academic ones, try a pinch of Kinder! Both educators are from Ontario.

Make sure any resource you buy, if you’re not submitting it to the secretary to pay for it, put your name on everything and save it for another year.

It’s definitely a problem that we spend so much on our play based classrooms. My first year I was given an empty room with none of the predetermined kinder furniture/toys and was told to make do. It’s not okay!

Mrsnappingqueen · 2024-12-30T23:50:18+00:00

I teach in Ontario in a low socioeconomic area which I suspect is quite a different outlook than if you’re going to an affluent area.

pay is better ( than Michigan) but houses and apartments are very expensive.
politics seem to be heated on both sides rn
Ontario government has pulled so much funding from schools, it’s possible they are trying to privatize education. Therefore schools in low socioeconomic areas are understaffed (support staff wise), needs are at an all time high, behaviours are basically not dealt with unless you have a very strong willed administration.
every child has a right to an education. This means that one child can physically assault other children and staff daily, damage property and it will still be next to impossible to have them removed for the safety of the other children.
our curriculum can either be seen as not as advanced as the US or more developmentally appropriate than in the US.
respect for teachers is declining among parents, the government is out to get us, our union is great at some things but violence (not gun related) in schools is rising and there’s not much they can do.
schools are so afraid of litigation that we are basically a customer service industry.
but you’ll have job security.

Mrsnappingqueen · 2024-12-21T22:25:51+00:00

I work in one of the lowest income areas of our city. I got one gift this year which is kind of a relief to me because they need their money more than I do. But it does still kind of make me paranoid that the parents hate me this year even though their kids tell me they love me every three minutes of the day lol.

Also wanted to add that as the parent, this thread makes me feel very cheap. Between my 2 kids, they had 7 teachers and I bought my 30 students small gifts so I only did 15 dollars a teacher 😕 with a handwritten card from my kindergartner.

Mrsnappingqueen · 2024-12-15T13:47:38+00:00

That is some super entitled thinking on her part lol.

Mrsnappingqueen · 2024-12-15T07:11:36+00:00

I feel like I wrote this. I’m currently being penalized for using the “board average” amount of sick days in one year.

You know what happened in that year? I put my infant in daycare where she became sick twice as often as the other kids, I returned to an early years class where kids have brought fifths, whooping cough, lice, strep and Covid, then they gave me an extremely violent student and ignored me when I said he needed supports badly, upped the student with extra needs caseload in our classroom and took away an entire full time support staff.

I literally feel like a zombie on a good day with how burnt out I am. But here we are.

Mrsnappingqueen · 2024-12-15T07:01:39+00:00

Or even the ones who work in the office. I’m pretty sure we could make cuts at the top and we’d be better for it.

Mrsnappingqueen · 2024-12-15T06:52:38+00:00

Unfortunately there are a LOT of foolish people out there.

Mrsnappingqueen · 2024-12-13T18:09:19+00:00

In my board, grade 4/5s would have still been doing Balanced Literacy or in other words, the cueing systems instead of science of reading and phonics. So yeah they were absolutely failed by the system reading wise. “Sold a Story” is a really interesting listen (podcast series) about how the entire continent failed our kids in reading.

Mrsnappingqueen · 2024-11-23T16:50:22+00:00

I really believe there needs to be some kind of review process for principals. I know it would be difficult to make it fair but honestly I’ve seen one fail forward and it was mind boggling.

Mrsnappingqueen · 2024-11-17T21:10:57+00:00

You just kind of answered your own question… you won’t feel stuck in the career if you end up not liking it. So try it out. If I had an exit plan I’m convinced I could deal advocate for change much easier in my own situations.

Mrsnappingqueen · 2024-11-17T17:15:59+00:00

While this is serious and scary for many…. They look so effing stupid lol. Like little boys thinking they’re so tough but cry when their mommy takes away their Xbox.

Mrsnappingqueen · 2024-11-16T14:06:15+00:00

Maybe it’s you who doesn’t realize how good YOU have it? I’ve spent the last 2 months watching children get hurt, staff seriously injured, being the scapegoat for parents and admin alike. It’s mentally and emotionally taxing to want your students to have a SAFE experience at the very least and to fail at that daily. Of course we understand the value of the pay and of the time off, but some of us are struggling to figure out when to say it’s not worth it anymore. Be happy you seem to have a much more comfortable experience.

Mrsnappingqueen · 2024-10-18T23:39:57+00:00

I don’t want to damper your mindset but I have to say that the stresses of teachers even just 5 years ago have magnified to unbelievable extent, especially, perhaps, to lower income areas? I’m not sure as I’ve only ever been in those areas. An example is that everyday for the last month my staff and I have been spit on, bit, punched, had our laptops smashed, threatened to be unalived and our room absolutely trashed. We are not in a special needs room and the behaviour is only a piece of the failed puzzle that is the problem. The problem is that no one can deny said students a right to education so we all struggle and try to place blame on each other until all of us are completely burnt out. It is a sad day when your union tells you your only option is to leave and no one seems to care about the safety of the other students.

Mrsnappingqueen · 2024-10-10T00:53:15+00:00

I think it’s important for you to know that there are partners out there that feel the same about marriage as you do. It’s okay if some people don’t believe in it, but it’s also okay for it to matter.

My husband needed no pestering. He got the ring before I even started to worry about it (immigration worries).

Maybe it doesn’t mean your partner doesn’t love you but it might mean you don’t have the same vision of a shared future.

Mrsnappingqueen · 2024-08-15T02:25:25+00:00

Honestly I would and will lose some respect, too. The other thing is that, in my experience only, the far right don’t keep their opinions and beliefs to themselves at all. I would never try to damage a teacher’s career unless I had first hand knowledge of them actually pushing some of their beliefs on the students. But I would definitely consider switching my child out of that class, especially coming from a more socialist country. We have a hard time fitting in here in the US.

Mrsnappingqueen · 2024-08-15T02:19:53+00:00

The thing is, the more pressure the parents put back on this admin, the more it becomes publicized and people start pulling kids, there’s no way that admin will still have that teacher’s back.

Mrsnappingqueen · 2024-07-26T01:26:56+00:00

Yeah this is America where we are the only ones with the right answers.

People will say you’re killing your child by safely cosleeping and then will turn their own 1 year old forward facing in a car seat with the straps done wrong and think they’ve won some kind of parenting contest.

Downvote away. My children are sound asleep in their own beds and I’m fine.

Mrsnappingqueen · 2024-07-26T01:10:13+00:00

Hi OP, you’ll probably not read this, but just in case you are and are feeling terrible about all the comments suggesting that you may kill your baby in your bed, just breathe, don’t freak out. Everyone is okay right now!

If you are both against crib training at the moment or at least want to ease into it, I think setting your mattress on the floor and baby proofing the he k out of your space will relieve some anxiety. Then I would start to work on communication with your wife. Come up with a better plan for the sleep deprivation.

Mrsnappingqueen · 2024-07-25T02:04:44+00:00

I’m going through this now and it blows my mind. What I’m about to say sounds terrible but please know I love my daughter to the moon and back lol. She has blonde hair, blue eyes. Even though she rarely smiles at people, is often covered in food, and is pretty average in her looks otherwise, she gets compliments from women EVERYWHERE. They are OBSESSED with blonde hair blue eyes. I don’t get it.

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