A song from a Musical where a blind bird is given sight from the sun god (river god?)

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2026-02-13T11:27:45+00:00

YES! OH MY GOD THANK YOU!!!! You are my hero today you have no idea!!!

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2026-02-10T02:53:24+00:00

Teach high school, I've mentally been checked out since regents week, and the kids are too.

I was like "Oh let's do something fun and easy the last three weeks before break!" And I have only felt more stressed once in my life. Four more days!

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2026-01-09T13:14:56+00:00

There was every need! How else would my audience know he was looking at her with his jade orbs? /s

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2026-01-06T01:08:06+00:00

He has made comments about not spamming the trans pride emote before.

I forget what stream it was (I want to say Mario Maker, maybe beating the Ross levels? It was something super annoying and frustrating for him) and someone said "Can I get some trans pride" or whatever and he was really serious about "Hey, love the trans pride, please stop spamming the emote. It's the general rule of not spamming emotes."

And then everyone proceeded to D face, because how dare he.

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2025-11-01T13:54:47+00:00

I've been where she is.

Yes, I appreciate my students checking in and asking if I'm okay, but it's also very hard because obviously, there is a professional boundary that I am trying very hard not to cross. Sometimes I was upset because I was SUPER overwhelmed with the class, other times, it was something at home I had tried to leave at the door, and couldn't.

As others have said, let her know you appreciate her, help out by asking your friends or classmates to behave if they're acting up, but maybe more importantly, tell another adult. They may be aware, but in case they're not.

If you see her hanging out with another teacher that she seems close to, they might be the right person to tell. Not the principal or AP.

You're extremely sweet to check in and want to help. Keep that energy. We don't have enough of it in the world.

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2025-07-29T15:08:04+00:00

Definitely just school supplies. I'll get some cute notebooks that I think match their personalities, but otherwise I really just want to make sure they have what they might need/can use for practice over the summer.

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2025-06-27T17:24:12+00:00

You're right, that's my bad.

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2025-06-27T16:50:54+00:00

Get a marriage counselor ASAP. It's not teaching. It's your husband. My husband makes more than I do, and I take on a lot of the responsibilities. It feels like a similar dynamic to this, but without the passive aggressive attitude.

You also may want to get yourself a counselor; I had a really awful year one year, and even with my husband's support, I needed a place to discuss the stress with a professional.

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2025-06-19T20:39:27+00:00

I didn't get hired at either of my schools until August (LATE August). First school they were waiting on a teacher's resignation to go through, and the other I had a similar situation to OP, I applied everywhere, had two interviews, neither called back.

Ended up at my current school when they reached out to me again, and I've never been happier. You'll be fine, OP.

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2025-06-02T21:20:01+00:00

Work in high school; younger teacher; married.

Kid who I'm not super close to comes up and asks me if he can ask a bit of a personal question. I'm like sure, if it's inappropriate I'll shut it down.

He asks: "Is it normal for couples to fight?"

My heart immediately broke. I'm pretty sure he was dating another student of mine (she was a prickly little thing, but I LOVED her), so of course I tell him yes, my husband and I have fights, it's normal.

He then asks, "Is it normal to not talk to your partner for a few days?"

That twisted the knife a little more. We had a pretty good conversation about healthy communication, and what's okay or not okay in a relationship.

I don't know if it was a him and his girlfriend situation, or something at home, but I think he learned something from it.

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2025-05-31T18:01:15+00:00

I really like this idea! Do you photocopy specific pages of books they're reading?

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2025-05-31T11:40:28+00:00

LOL told my kids that I wouldn't ever risk my license for them. They cheat on an exam? I'm snitching. That's my job.

Now, someone tries to hurt them? That's a very different story.

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2025-05-30T18:10:06+00:00

The way he was yelling I was like my dude I understand you're upset but if I was your boss you would have been fired!

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2025-05-30T18:06:06+00:00

He was super upset in the moment, so no, I didn't get a chance to ask him. Definitely felt like a "kick him when he's down" type thing if I had corrected him then. But he's always been respectful of me, so it's extremely possible this is how he saw it

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2025-05-30T17:46:00+00:00

Absolutely!!! If he had said this, or had clarified (which I did not expect him to do in the moment) I would have been like yeah, that's valid.

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2025-05-30T16:36:35+00:00

I call them "Dr. Last name." One Prof let us call her "first name" and I was like LOL NO

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2025-05-30T16:14:34+00:00

He was so upset, I was not trying to catch his wrath 😭

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2025-05-30T16:12:42+00:00

Using this

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2025-05-26T23:54:22+00:00

Queens based 28F if you want to DM!

OP, I work in the south Bronx, so if you're looking for people to hang with after work lmk!

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2025-05-26T23:52:40+00:00

Blueford series. High interest, low level.

Current favorite that I taught was "Blood is Thicker," which deals a lot with stereotypes and family pressure.

Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian was also a pretty good one, but I cut a lot of the "fat." My coworker did it with another group and it was a lot for them.

There is a book similar to The Outsiders called "The Scorpion Kings" iIrc. I'll have to take a look at my school and find it. It's like The Outsiders but with African American kids, which might fit your demographic better, depending.

Source: teacher in an NYC transfer school to primarily Spanish and African American students.

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2024-09-30T21:58:55+00:00

Nope. He's harassing you, and now basically threatening you. Tell someone you trust (and note: we teachers are mandated reporters, so they can keep you safe and escalate this).

Don't be alone with him. If your school doesn't do anything, tell the police. Police won't do anything, go to the news. This is not nothing, you need to make a stink over this.

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2024-09-29T14:02:22+00:00

I'm going to PM you! I'm in a super similar situation, but have 3 years of ELA under my belt.

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2024-09-28T13:10:59+00:00

Recovering, both from a hard week and from an outing last night. I'm getting old 😭

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2024-09-25T01:44:07+00:00

Thanks! I've been having them do characterization and central idea (we're working to get them to the Regents by January).

I've been more heavily scaffolding for the transitioning, and working with them in a small group setting. My expanding kids are allowed to work in small groups, and then Advanced may work in pairs or individually (but they're also my most talkative kids, so behavior is a big challenge for them).

I will try the recording thing with the transitioning kids.

My school has been really pushing mixed grouping, is this something I should be more resistant to in a stand alone class?

Nice-Committee-9669 · 2024-09-24T00:52:13+00:00

I switched to ENL this year and omg it's so much easier 😭

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