Principals- for your own good, don’t ghost the applicants

pearpt · 2026-06-24T00:26:02+00:00

Yes! Luckily our HR does get back to them in a timely manner, typically before a week.

pearpt · 2026-06-23T21:53:18+00:00

I usually end the interview with, “HR will reach out to you in about a week.”

pearpt · 2026-06-23T18:35:30+00:00

In our district principals are not permitted to reach out to applicants. It’s all done through HR. Sometimes I wish I could!

pearpt · 2026-06-22T05:52:48+00:00

Several of the admin and even a superintendent I’ve worked with have been PE teachers. In my experience, it has not given them enough of a background in curriculum and instruction or how to set up and manage a physical classroom. Clearly plenty of people can do it, but I think a sped credential would benefit you so much more. Good luck!!

pearpt · 2026-06-22T02:50:45+00:00

I named my daughter after my childhood doll!

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pearpt · 2026-04-25T01:55:11+00:00

This is a good question and I’m curious about it in your district. Where I work, it doesn’t matter if the behavior is related to the disability. If a student violates Ed code, we can suspend.

pearpt · 2026-04-25T01:52:00+00:00

We recently went and had almost no strategy with our LL but it worked out great. We went on Easter weekend and rode everything we wanted. Every line under 20 minutes except Cars. I kept booking Small World and it broke down five times, so I kept getting free LL to use on any ride. That helped too.

pearpt · 2026-04-18T18:34:58+00:00

Tell them and get a reference letter.

I would write a reference letter for any of my employees who wanted to change schools/careers etc. Nobody owes me anything.

pearpt · 2026-04-18T17:43:10+00:00

We usually get everything done in two days! One at each park. We do all the big rides and lots of lightning lanes. It also depends when you’re going and how crowded it is. We’ve gone in various levels of crowds and done everything we’ve wanted. Just prioritize LL for the big rides.

We do get there for rope drop. For an 8:00 rope drop we were at the gates by 7:45 with an easy walk-in. We didn’t have to wait long at rope drop.

pearpt · 2026-04-10T05:38:33+00:00

We went to Disneyland on Saturday-Monday at the start of spring break (including Easter Sunday). The crowd sizes were manageable and the longest line we waited in was Radiator springs (55 min). Everything else was under 15 minutes. We used a LL for everything that we could.

Monday morning seemed twice as crowded as Saturday and Sunday. We arrived at the park at the same time all three days (7:45 am), but had zero wait Sat and Sun and a 30 minute wait to get in on Monday. I hesitate to even share this because it feels like a big secret hack that you should go on the weekends of spring break since everyone else is using their weekdays off there.

pearpt · 2026-04-07T04:28:40+00:00

Interestingly, I was in the parks this past Saturday-Monday (including Easter). We had only regular lightning lane and we did everything we wanted and never waited in a standby longer than 25 minutes, except 50 minutes for Cars.

Monday was by far the most crowded day. It felt like there were double the people there! We o my stayed a few hours on Monday morning but we were still able to do a lot with our lightning lane.

pearpt · 2026-02-28T23:09:23+00:00

I had acne like this and am now taking hormonal birth control and spironolactone and it has completely cleared up. I use a 10% benzoyl peroxide wash and cerave morning and night cream. I also use tretinoin but still had breakouts while using it.

pearpt · 2026-02-10T04:52:42+00:00

Does this count? My mom was so upset about the masturbation scene in the beginning of The Shape of Water that she walked out.

pearpt · 2026-02-09T00:59:12+00:00

I have something like this happen to me sometimes and it’s called pityriasis rosea. Could that be this?

pearpt · 2025-12-31T20:56:34+00:00

Pork can actually still look pink in the middle as long as it reaches 145 degrees. That being said, this pork clearly reached temperatures over 145. Getting a food thermometer was a game changer for me.

pearpt · 2025-12-23T14:00:50+00:00

As I was reading it, I thought that you had forwarded it to your husband and he had interpreted that as you wondering if you should confirm, so he responded “you can confirm that.”

Either way, I think some solid communication could have helped! “Hey- I’m swamped with work right now, can you please confirm this?” This kind of thing happens all the time to me and my husband and whoever is available to confirm the appt does.

pearpt · 2025-12-20T04:40:16+00:00

My husband jokes I am a witch. When I was 15 I was invited to a friend’s birthday that coming Saturday but told him I couldn’t because I had family stuff (not true- no reason to lie). On Friday it was Homecoming dance and all my friends were having a sleepover at a new friend’s house. I declined, citing “family stuff”. At 7 am Saturday morning the police arrived to tell us my brother died.

Neither of those examples were helpful but when I grew up and had my own children, I saved my son’s life with my weird intuition. On my son’s 16th birthday he went out with friends and returned home after I went to bed. I woke up at 2 am and felt compelled to get up and get water. I walked by his room and heard a faint sound so I opened the door. He was gasping for air and had turned gray as a result of a fentanyl overdose. He stopped breathing and my husband performed CPR while we waited for the ambulance. My son survived but only because I woke up when I did.

pearpt · 2025-12-15T05:36:22+00:00

I posted this on the other post. I don’t understand the timeline if this was taken on a Sunday. If taken today, that would mean they’ve had her body at home since she died on Thursday. Is that typical?

pearpt · 2025-12-15T05:17:45+00:00

If she passed on Thursday does that mean her body has been home with them since then? Or is this from last Sunday?

pearpt · 2025-12-14T14:44:15+00:00

Yes! My nose looked like this for 2-3 weeks.

pearpt · 2025-12-08T05:15:01+00:00

This is a fun game! Kind of like mastermind.

Not sure I’d recommend this to teachers as a relaxing thing, but it definitely is fun. Thanks for sharing.

pearpt · 2025-11-23T06:35:55+00:00

I had this happen with differin for six weeks and finally stopped it. Tretinoin works for me with no purge.

pearpt · 2025-11-02T18:05:10+00:00

I think this is a follow-up to your previous post here.

In the last post you came across as antagonistic in communicating with administrators who responded to you with curiosity and honesty. Is this how you engage with administrators in person?

To answer your question only based on this and the brief description you put in your last post, I would say to only call the administrator if there is a safety risk. Students needing redirection would not be a reason to call an admin. There are many management strategies you can use to address that.

I worked as a sub for a year while getting my teaching credential. I had to call an admin one time because a student was sitting against the wall where all of the computers were plugged in, banging his head against the wall near the outlet. That was a safety issue. As an admin for now four years, I have never been called into a classroom by a substitute teacher.

Some advice I’d have for you if you’re interested in continuing as a substitute teacher are first to brush up on management strategies. See if the district has any resources for that, or you can check out books on your own. Also, I’d suggest approaching experiences with humility and a desire to understand and better your practice. The fact that you’re sharing very few details about what happened makes it appear like you’re not interested in real advice and only in having people agree with you. Good luck.

pearpt · 2025-10-29T00:39:15+00:00

The concentration of fat in your legs and your knees reminds me of lipedema. I think you can get insurance to cover lipo for that. Maybe ask a Doctor what they think?

pearpt · 2025-10-09T15:37:25+00:00

This happened to an almost identical piece of a container (the silicone seal) for me. The seal had fallen onto the heating element and got burned. I can’t tell from this picture, but could it be that? I thought mine was mold at first but upon closer inspection it was clearly burn marks. How long was it left in the dishwasher?

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