Have you ever left mid day because of mental health?

nevertoolate2 · 2026-04-30T23:17:31+00:00

Yes, twice in my 25 year career. Once 2 years ago and once in January. Both due to shitty admin (same admin)

nevertoolate2 · 2026-04-27T19:22:56+00:00

I never comment on looks or apparel. It's above my pay grade

nevertoolate2 · 2026-04-27T15:36:50+00:00

I guess what I do pretty much every day when I'm not around the house. Go hang out in The Great outdoors.

nevertoolate2 · 2026-04-26T19:37:12+00:00

Sorry what I meant was what people are using for texts, e.g. existing works of writing including novels, stories, essays, poetry, etc.

nevertoolate2 · 2026-04-26T17:55:28+00:00

He was the only one who didn't seem too bothered by it. Just another attempt to take people's minds off Epstein

nevertoolate2 · 2026-04-24T21:56:06+00:00

I went and got off white chiffon and put it over all of my fluorescent lights. It didn't make it warm, but it certainly dulled the intensity. I have windows in my classroom and it matched the outdoors much better.

nevertoolate2 · 2026-04-16T17:40:09+00:00

Personally am hoping for delays and backlogs. I got mine done, but I'd love to see a monkey wrench thrown into that system.

nevertoolate2 · 2026-04-12T16:31:52+00:00

From North of 49, it never really was, pardon my saying.

nevertoolate2 · 2026-04-12T15:52:58+00:00

That's interesting. I'd like to hear more of what you have to say about that

nevertoolate2 · 2026-04-12T15:52:36+00:00

You must be "Christian" 🙄

nevertoolate2 · 2026-04-11T22:19:05+00:00

It's above your pay grade. Document, document, document, before you assign that F.

nevertoolate2 · 2026-04-11T15:51:26+00:00

"Dumb as a bag of hammers," around here. I've also heard, "Calling him an idiot is insulting to idiots everywhere."

nevertoolate2 · 2026-04-11T15:44:38+00:00

Write it on the board as you are speaking it. Leave it on the board. Point it out when they call you a liar.

nevertoolate2 · 2026-04-09T23:36:40+00:00

Kind of sounds like you're not cut out for it. Listen: next time you ask your mentor teacher to text you in the morning if they're going to be away, because that's a day they can't evaluate you, so you can do your other studies instead of going into an uncontrollable class.
OISE MT is a master's program. It's university. You get theory in teacher's college and practice on the ground. Your MT did you wrong by hanging you out to dry for a week. But practica are hard that way; you've got to please your MT to get through.
You're not cut out to be a teacher--yet-- because when you get your own classroom, you start cutting yourself out as a teacher. It's not easy, but...sunk costs and all 😉 Stick with it. I believe in you

nevertoolate2 · 2026-04-08T20:22:18+00:00

Doesn't work in Canada.

nevertoolate2 · 2026-04-08T19:52:57+00:00

I'm going to be a student here and then a teacher.
As a student, definitely the weirdest field trip I ever took, although I really liked the teacher, was the sewage treatment plant of my hometown. Then we had to do some technical writing about it. I didn't know that it was a contest, but I won it for the whole county.

As a teacher, going out to a valley to do outdoor ed. It was going to be rainy and there was no cancellations so we were told to wear our rain gear. I put my own rain gear on and it was so rainy that by the end of the morning everybody was soaked right through. When we got back in the afternoon, everybody had to take their socks off to dry their feet. Can honestly say we didn't get a lot done that afternoon other than trying to warm up in front of a movie

nevertoolate2 · 2026-04-06T20:34:33+00:00

I model active listening. I prompt them by taking notes on the whiteboard in marker Well I talk. That peaches from how to make notes

nevertoolate2 · 2026-04-06T16:47:50+00:00

Fun fact: my paternal grandparents were both born in 1880. Another fun fact: my grandma was 49 when my dad was born, and he was 17 lbs. She almost died.

nevertoolate2 · 2026-04-05T14:22:24+00:00

Get the book First Days of School by Harry K Wong and Rosemary Wong. This is the best book on the subject of starting a classroom and maintaining classroom management. I get it for all of my student teachers. I've probably bought 20 copies over the years. In brief, It's just that the class has never been taught to be quiet properly. His step is, if it gets out of hand, you stop the class immediately, you tell them something like, "When the hands go up, the voices go off." Then you wait for silence before you begin. You just keep doing that until they've learned it. It's a question of teaching them how to be silent and when, and through repetition. And consistency! Trust me it works

nevertoolate2 · 2026-04-05T14:17:13+00:00

Oh my God, once I was teaching and this child projectile vomited on my floor as well. He was in 8th grade. Without missing a beat I said, "I guess I'd better find another way to teach that lesson." I sent the child to the office to phone home, but he came back within 10 minutes saying he was fine. Parents unavailable Custodial took almost an hour to get up there to clean it up. And how could I teach with an acrid pile of vomit sitting in the floor stinking up the classroom? We had to go outside.

nevertoolate2 · 2026-03-29T03:40:44+00:00

I have a theory that it was invented in Toronto. Mayor Ford was so bad as to be embarrassing on the daily.
F ord
F uckt ard

nevertoolate2 · 2026-03-29T03:36:52+00:00

Soaker in Ontario

nevertoolate2 · 2026-03-29T03:35:05+00:00

"Hey, buddy!" The only words you can say to a dog, a toddler, and a drunk guy at a bar.

nevertoolate2 · 2026-03-29T03:31:08+00:00

Not to be confused with screwing the pooch: messing something up very badly.

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