re: Good Afternoon Ranters: Full Up on Cray Cray Edition

AYP is a fricking joke fwiw

I couldn't do elementary. I like little kids in small numbers. I need the snarky arse middle and high schoolers to keep me on my toes and entertained.

If I were going to teach, I'd want to be in middle or high as well. I'd actually like to feel like I'm communicating to real people.

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If anything, kids seem to regress from 7-9th grade. God bless the teachers that put up with that hormonal bunch of assholes.

Yep but they are actively trying to get their own system because of all the shite they went through doing the remodel of the HS

Word now is they might shut down Fultondale HS and combine the students to make Gardendale one of the biggest 5A schools, it is only 5A now because of the head count of the special needs program (which is one of the best in the state so it gets kids transferred in from all over)

Fair enough. I couldn't deal with any of it personally. Even high school kids suck. I can't imagine how frustrating it is to have kids that sleep or cut up every day in class come in and ace every test.

My mom taught high school for decades before moving to the ELL program. My sister has worked with children with learning disabilities for years in the same system as well. It was enough to make me realize there was no way in hell I wanted to put up with school administrators (half of whom are too moronic to do anything else in my experience), shitty parents, and their equally shitty kids.

I got into counseling vs. teaching. Still get to work with the kids and deal with a ton of issues, just not some of those that the teachers do.

shite, I can't get away from my desk for lunch much less to play golf.

My golf experience begins and ends with putt-putt. A particular Reb has offered to teach me how to play golf. I don't think he realizes what he's getting into.