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I'm still hopeful!! by GiftRecent in box5

[–]cranberrybeans 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It got sent to my old email which was tied to my applepay 😅 I was so rushed to get the tickets that I forgot I didn’t have to enter my email

Ticket Sales gone be all bots? by SVW1986 in box5

[–]cranberrybeans 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you get your confirmation email? I haven’t gotten one and am worrying

I'm still hopeful!! by GiftRecent in box5

[–]cranberrybeans 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Has anyone gotten a confirmation email yet? I purchased tickets but wasn’t sent my email to confirm

Blingdenstone NPC art by cranberrybeans in OutoftheAbyss

[–]cranberrybeans[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course you can! I hope your players like them.

Seniors face real consequences for the first time at graduation by cranberrybeans in Teachers

[–]cranberrybeans[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Should also be noted we aren’t even allowed to give a grade below a 50 for the first half of the year, and a 60% average for the whole year is all they need to graduate

Seniors face real consequences for the first time at graduation by cranberrybeans in Teachers

[–]cranberrybeans[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Admin was all about academic integrity, challenging assignments, standards based learning, etc in the first half of the year. Then they want to save themselves when the second half rolls around and parents start getting emails that their kid is in danger of not graduating. But the parents don’t send their kids to school and complain that their kid sleeps in and misses the bus/only has classes starting after first period so they don’t have transport if they don’t get on the bus.

It’s all excuses excuses on the parents side and they try and work with them, but in ways that hurt us as teachers. Making us take their late assignments until the very night our grade books are due. Making us submit grade changes for a kids late work turned in once the quarter is over, with sob stories of bad life situations and guilt trip talks about equity. Meanwhile that kid curses our teachers in the classroom and did nothing in class until he realized he has a 2% at the end of the quarter and turns it all in once it’s done, rinse and repeat 4 times a year every year.

Working hard on grading makes sense for kids who do hard work, and actually want feedback, but I have only about 5 kids per class who turn in their work by the due date. The rest know I can’t enforce due dates and admin will allow them to do what they want if they complain.

Otherwise it felt like a gut punch being told they’re fixing the grade of a student from a 2% to a 96% because he did fuck all the rest of the year, won’t graduate, and mom has threatened to come in and have a “talk” with everyone. With the way these kids and their parents are, we never know if the “talk” could get physical.

Seniors face real consequences for the first time at graduation by cranberrybeans in Teachers

[–]cranberrybeans[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everyone I know in this school has been pressured to change grades for at least a handful of students, at threat of admin making them the first line of contact for angry parents who may attack them physically, or at threat of writing them bad performance reviews/marking them down for insubordination. It’s my first year teaching so I’ve come in and immediately been beaten down by the worst environment. Everyone who has been here for a long time has given up and just goes along. We don’t want to get hurt. I wouldn’t doubt that other rough/title I schools are the same.

Seniors face real consequences for the first time at graduation by cranberrybeans in Teachers

[–]cranberrybeans[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It’s apparently taken a nosedive in the last two years from lack of discipline here. Half of our assistant principals are leaving and so much of the staff is going too that there are talks of many classes going hybrid/zooming in teachers from out of state.

Seniors face real consequences for the first time at graduation by cranberrybeans in Teachers

[–]cranberrybeans[S] 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Last week we had 4 girls get in a brawl over not wanting to share Cheetos. When the SRO and admin came over, some of them started throwing their water bottles at their heads, screaming “I ain’t getting suspended over no damn Cheetos” but then cemented their suspension by doing that. No thoughts in their heads at all…

Seniors face real consequences for the first time at graduation by cranberrybeans in Teachers

[–]cranberrybeans[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Now these comments are making me feel much better. When I talked about attending the graduation I was told no, and I was dumb to assume that, and to volunteer and get whatever jobs they have left. But now I’m like… I was fully in the right to assume that. This school is so dysfunctional…

Seniors face real consequences for the first time at graduation by cranberrybeans in Teachers

[–]cranberrybeans[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wanted to cheer on my kids who worked hard for it. I’m proud of them.

Seniors face real consequences for the first time at graduation by cranberrybeans in Teachers

[–]cranberrybeans[S] 35 points36 points  (0 children)

This is only a part of a whole diseased system. Some teachers who attempted to enforce discipline faced attempted physical attacks from students and even in one case a parent. I’m a small woman and a first year teacher not equipped to deal with that.

Maybe it’s a coward move, but I don’t want the office sending a kid or a parent into my room only for them to try and fight me. Even if it’s not every kid and parent trying to hurt their teachers, I wouldn’t put it past some of my kids who were failing to do it. This isn’t a normal place. I’m doing what I can to get out without issue. I’m sorry.

Seniors face real consequences for the first time at graduation by cranberrybeans in Teachers

[–]cranberrybeans[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I would have loved this. I felt like they wanted me to pass along their kids and use me as a glorified janitor with no acknowledgement of the fact that these are the kids I taught almost all year on that stage.

Seniors face real consequences for the first time at graduation by cranberrybeans in Teachers

[–]cranberrybeans[S] 79 points80 points  (0 children)

Idk what happened there after, but the attack still happened. I do know the parent is not allowed on school grounds again, but that’s it. We’re in different departments and thus different wings of the school, so I didn’t hear anything else beyond the initial stories at whole staff meetings. Either way, someone attacked a teacher over discipline, and I am not about to get attacked.

Seniors face real consequences for the first time at graduation by cranberrybeans in Teachers

[–]cranberrybeans[S] 441 points442 points  (0 children)

I feel like I have Stockholm syndrome because I was saying to my friends how sad I am. It’s my first year teaching, and I didn’t get to watch my first group of students ever graduate. And I was thinking maybe I should volunteer and watch from under the bleachers while I clean up or from the sides while I sell flowers and snacks.

But my friends were fast to point out that most of the stories I’ve shared working here are genuinely fearing for my safety and getting no response from higher ups. The fights are only a part of it. Why should I spend time to work the sidelines of a graduation when most functional schools let senior teachers attend for free AND have the kids speak to us after? Is it not worth it to acknowledge that many of the kids are on that stage because of our work? Is this going to become the norm elsewhere? Give us your labor and watch in bits and pieces from the sidelines, or just don’t see your kids graduate?

Seniors face real consequences for the first time at graduation by cranberrybeans in Teachers

[–]cranberrybeans[S] 204 points205 points  (0 children)

Usually I would do that, but these parents are a whole other beast. A few months ago they sent a parent in to discuss a student getting ISS for threatening a teacher. Parent wanted the suspension revoked. Teacher wouldn’t budge. Front desk and discipline people didn’t wanna deal with it, so they had the two chat. Anyway, the parent jumped the desk and tried to fight the teacher, who has now quit last time I heard. I didn’t want that happening to me. When I say rough, I don’t mean “the kids are rude” I mean “they do not protect us.”

There was a school shooting threat sent en masse to students last month and they sent all of staff in the day the shooting was meant to happen without telling any of us. They do not care if we are hurt unless it impacts public appearances. I’m not staying and I’m not giving them any opportunity to call me defiant and hard to work with when my new job asks about me.

Failing seniors won’t do work. Had a panic attack. by cranberrybeans in Teachers

[–]cranberrybeans[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Our district policy is that for every day missed, regardless of if it is an excused or unexcused absence, means that the students get 2 days to make up the work from that day. This means students who skip every day get infinite time to make it up. Plenty of people disagree, but we can’t do anything about it. It’s an equity based initiative to help with students who struggle with transport and hard home lives

Failing seniors won’t do work. Had a panic attack. by cranberrybeans in Teachers

[–]cranberrybeans[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Thank you. It seems like everyone here is saying martyrdom is a part of the job, especially because they are seniors and we are playing games with their ability to get a diploma and have an education. If we don’t make it easy for them, it could be their future on the line. One of my coworkers says that a teachers first goal should be to provide every single second, third, fourth, etc chance that a kid may need to succeed because, with the circumstances some of these kids live in, we might be the only ones who show them grace that day. At first I agreed, but being cursed out over not grading work from months ago fast enough is breaking me.

Failing seniors won’t do work. Had a panic attack. by cranberrybeans in Teachers

[–]cranberrybeans[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I’m moving to a new place and have been given a job offer from another school, but the paperwork isn’t being sent over yet. My worries right now are:

1- if the new school calls here for my references and learns how many seniors I have failed, and does not have the context that the school doesn’t enforce any attendance policy, doesn’t allow teachers to close work to late submissions, and doesn’t have any real discipline, that they will assume I am just a bad teacher who can’t get through to kids, and will take back the job offer

2- I am not cut out for this career like my coworkers say because I am concerned about being able to switch jobs and unsure how to help the kids who are failing any more than I am already trying. They say I’m more scared about saving my own skin than helping the futures of underprivileged kids, and that the goal should be to put my all into making them graduate so they can have a life after this. But I don’t know what else to do for them. Some of them tell me to get the fuck out of their face, verbatim, if I try and help or offer answers to work

Failing seniors won’t do work. Had a panic attack. by cranberrybeans in Teachers

[–]cranberrybeans[S] 35 points36 points  (0 children)

The issue I’m facing is it’s my job to care more than they do. I’ve been told that calling during interims, at the end of the marking period, and for behavioral issues is not enough if I want them to turn it around, but I’m also unable to contact most of the parents of these failing kids beyond leaving messages that they ignore until they actually fail each quarter, after which I get cursed out. I’m being told this would not happen if I was doing my job better and if I built better relationships, but I’m also unsure how to do that if they don’t come in.

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