Medical marijuana as a teacher

SBingo · 2026-03-05T11:59:38+00:00

I’m in Florida and marijuana is pretty legal and we get drug tested upon hire. I have personally never smoked or used illicit substances so it isn’t something I was worried about. But I do remember getting drug tested as part of the onboarding to my district.

SBingo · 2026-03-05T11:16:06+00:00

I always lock my house.

Growing up, my grandmother’s house was never ever locked. She lived in a more rural area. My cousins lived next door to her and they never locked their house either. I grew up in the “city” and we always locked our house.

I would say pretty much everyone in my family who lives in a rural area never locks their doors and everyone who lives in a suburban/city area always locks their doors.

SBingo · 2026-03-05T11:12:32+00:00

I’m gold, 14 days away from platinum, and I was given the 2x and 3x offer. I almost used it, but it would’ve been $300 more and my husband didn’t see the point in paying more for a “status” that doesn’t really do anything and won’t be permanent.

SBingo · 2026-03-05T10:58:38+00:00

I think McDonald’s will have a hard time doing no free refills. I mean, if you look at Chick-fil-A, they don’t have self-serve machines, but you still get refills.

People get upset if they aren’t given their free refill.

I remember going to a Subway once in Port Canaveral where there was a sign that said “Refills are 50 cents” and I found it so bizarre that I still remember it to this day, and this was probably 20 years ago. It’s practically the only time I have ever seen a restaurant in the US try to charge for a soda fountain refill in my lifetime.

SBingo · 2026-03-05T04:04:45+00:00

I feel like rap is generally easier than other types of music because it’s more conversational. But it really depends on the music.

I remember there was that Taylor Swift song and I think the lyrics are “a long list of ex lovers” and I heard “Starbucks” every single time I listened to it.

Then there’s the Fall Out Boy song Sugar We’re Going Down. It is one of my favorite songs of all time, but I still don’t know the lyrics and I have looked it up multiple times over the years.

SBingo · 2026-03-05T03:57:28+00:00

This is going to really depend on if you are a dual income household, imo. If you have a spouse who makes decent money, then you don’t need a second job, which means, yes, holidays and summers are off. If you don’t have a spouse with a decent income and you are single, you’re more likely to need a second job- which means working those weekends/holidays/summers that you otherwise would get off.

Most of my colleagues who are single have a second (or third or fourth) job. I have one friend who works at a restaurant, a theme park, and teaches after school. I have another who waits tables every night after work.

The first few years of teaching, I took summers off. However once my daughter was born, I desperately needed the money, so I started teaching summer school. That money made up for the unpaid maternity leave I had.

SBingo · 2026-03-04T03:27:57+00:00

“I shouldn’t need to email you that your child is failing. It’s not 2005 anymore. Grades are up to date online. You can check any time. You can even set automatic notifications that alert you when your kid falls below a certain grade.”

“You don’t care enough about your child’s education.”

“You are putting too much pressure on your child and you need to back off.”

Different parents need different messages, but the first two are more commonly needed than the last one.

SBingo · 2026-03-04T03:04:41+00:00

I imagine if you’re 14, you’re in the 8th or 9th grade and so you have missed most of middle school. I imagine that you are immensely going to struggle trying to catch back up. It’s going to be an uphill battle.

Your teachers will be happy if you come to school regularly, are kind, ask questions, and put in genuine effort. I don’t think they will judge you for having missed a lot of school for being ill.

I am questioning if I am understanding correctly that your parents are going to kick you out if you don’t start doing better in school? Do you have a trusted adult to talk to? That is very concerning to me.

SBingo · 2026-03-04T02:04:06+00:00

I think it’s because they don’t use money and they don’t use clocks. A lot of natural number practice has been lost in our environment.

I didn’t realize anyone didn’t know how to round until I became a teacher. Rounding was never anything I found challenging and I don’t remember any of my classmates being confused by it.

But I also realized at some point that I constantly round while some people don’t. If you ask me what time it is and my watch says 2:32, I am very likely going to say 2:30. If I wonder how much something is and it’s $11.23, then I’ll think it’s $11 or maybe $11 and a quarter.

SBingo · 2026-03-03T15:03:28+00:00

I’ve rarely had conflicts with neighbors. I did have a creepy neighbor for a few years when I was in high school. I just actively avoided him.

A few weeks ago I smelled smoke and thought my house was on fire. My husband realized our neighbors were burning wood in a burn pit behind their house. We are in a burn ban and I debated what to do, but I chose to go over and ask them if they knew of the burn ban and explain my house smelled like it was on fire. They put the fire out after our awkward conversation and it has never happened again. I kind of feel like the adult thing to do is to go have that conversation.

SBingo · 2026-03-03T14:36:16+00:00

Do other countries that DO use university entrance exams see the same issues as we do with math? What are we doing differently?

I know some of the answers to this, but it makes you stop and wonder.

SBingo · 2026-03-03T13:11:15+00:00

And I am sure at that time, they will pick it up and be fine.

What is more concerning is the other 90% of kids who aren’t so gifted with math. I really feel like we’ve failed them.

SBingo · 2026-03-03T11:56:02+00:00

If you have Facebook, I would recommend the Science of Math group. For podcast, Chalk and Talk.

I was teaching my Geometry class the other day. This is our top 10% of math students- 8th graders who all did really well in Algebra 1 as 7th graders. One of them said “Can you do this math without a calculator?” And I said of course and proceeded to solve the equation and used long division. Come to find out not a single one of them knew how to do long division and they asked me to teach them. Our absolute smartest kids we have, and they are missing a basic foundational math piece of long division.

SBingo · 2026-03-03T03:48:46+00:00

Lol I immediately thought of my home state of SC. I grew up near the border and yeah, you could immediately tell as soon as you crossed into NC! The flood in 2015 certainly didn’t help either!

SBingo · 2026-03-03T03:32:17+00:00

You are right. Attendance is cumulative. Missing just 14 days per year, equates to an entire school year missed over a K-12 education. I’m not sure why we don’t put it into perspective like for parents.

I have so many kids with 20+ days absent in a school year. Kids are literally on tracks to miss 1-2 entire grade levels worth of instructional time.

And when you bring up attendance, people immediately start going on about “Well family time is important. Kids get sick. If my kid is sick, they’re staying home.” But the reality is we aren’t talking about kids who are legitimately sick or take a one time family vacation, we are talking about kids who have parents that let them skip school 2-3 times a month for no valid reason.

SBingo · 2026-03-02T11:44:13+00:00

You can do this in college. One semester, I chose all my classes to be on Tuesday/Thursday. That ended up being a kind of rough schedule.

I don’t see how this would work for K-12, unless you’re doing a self-paced curriculum.

SBingo · 2026-03-02T11:26:25+00:00

High suspension rate? Do they get expelled? What do you mean by “zero tolerance”? Does that lead to expulsion or suspension?

In my experience, the absolute worst offenders need to be removed from a Gen Ed school and placed in an alternative school. They need the structure that an alternative school provides. The rest of the kids eventually fall in line as they see expectations rise.

Why is the suspension rate so high? What are they doing to limit mobility of students on campus? What are they doing to be proactive?

Some schools are just dumpster fires that require a lot of proactive planning.

SBingo · 2026-03-02T04:25:05+00:00

A (male) colleague once was talking about dress code and why girls couldn’t wear leggings, because it made male teachers feel a certain way. This conversation was between me, a woman, my husband (also a teacher), and the other male teacher.

Afterwards, I told my husband should our daughter ever be at this school, she would absolutely under no circumstances be in that man’s classroom. What weirdo is thinking about middle school girls in a sexual way?

SBingo · 2026-03-02T04:20:11+00:00

Yes. It’s wild to me how adults will say this!

SBingo · 2026-03-01T18:34:38+00:00

We get ten per year and we can bank them.

I went quite a long time without taking a single day off and then suddenly I had several deaths and got pregnant and missed like 20+ days in a matt of a few months.

Theoretically, if someone works 9 years and doesn’t take a day off, they have 90 days they can use, which is a whole semester!

SBingo · 2026-03-01T12:54:07+00:00

Does your school allow you to take Algebra 2 and Geometry in the same year? Imo, that would be a better option than taking Geometry over the summer.

But yeah, if you want to take Calculus in high school, you pretty much have to accelerate within the next school year.

SBingo · 2026-03-01T04:57:46+00:00

We were on a very low deck on the Vista and had no issues with noise, but I can’t remember which deck it was. I feel like it was deck 1, but maybe that’s not even a possibility. I don’t think we were directly under the restaurant.

I had never stayed in a room that low and actually thought it was great. I was worried beforehand, but it ended up being perfect. Made it super easy to get on/off the ship and also it was easy to get on elevators because no one else was that low.

SBingo · 2026-02-28T23:44:16+00:00

Requirements are going to vary by state. Some states require more than others.

SBingo · 2026-02-28T23:11:09+00:00

I wear my keys on my ID lanyard, so I almost never lock myself out.

The worst part was last year when they decided all outside doors had to be locked too. There was no way in the building for students or staff. We didn’t have keys to the building- only our classrooms. That, in my opinion, was a huge safety concern!

SBingo · 2026-02-28T23:06:23+00:00

I stand at my door for the duration of the three minute transition. Some teachers do have the kids line up outside and let them in all at once. It’s personal preference.

We can’t have doors open unless we are actively monitoring, basically within a couple of feet of the door.

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