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Post by Merge on Oct 15, 2019 13:02:59 GMT
Oh, some days they have four. Some days “only” two. The kids go to gym four times a week and foreign language three times a week, music twice, art, library, drama, and technology once ... I think I’m forgetting something. We specialist teachers do NOT get that much planning time. I teach 30 classes per week. It’s insane and yes I’m bitter. I’m curious how long your music classes are? All of our specials run 30-45 minutes, depending on which special it is. Gym is three times a week, music twice, and library, art and computers are once a week. We do have some crazy schedules, where a teacher might have three specials one day and none on another, which I think is ridiculous. There's a big difference in teaching time for six thirty minute classes a day and six 45-minute or 60-minute classes. They're 45-minute classes. On Monday and Friday I teach 7 of them, on Thursday 6, and Tuesday and Wednesday have 5 (Wednesday is a short day because we have a staff meeting). I like Tuesdays. I feel like I have time to breathe. Monday and Friday are absolute hell. I start Monday morning with five back to back classes without a break, and finish Friday afternoon with four back to back classes without a break. To be fair, in public school I taught 34, 45-minute classes per week (7 every day except Friday, which had 6) - but the whole reason I came to private school was for the promise of a lighter schedule. I am just too old for that stuff and I cannot be the teacher I want to be with that kind of schedule. Selfishly, I also want to have energy for other activities when I get home instead of collapsing onto the couch in exhaustion every evening like I did for the past 13 years. I'm done with the teacher/martyr model of doing things. They got rid of the fine arts director who hired me, and who made promises about the schedule, and I now report to the elementary principal, whose primary concern is making sure that the classroom teachers get all their planning. Fine arts is supposed to collaborate and work as a team, but we have no common planning or lunch time, so we would have to do any collaboration during our own time. I got moved from my nice big room in the fine arts building, which is behind the elementary, to a crackerbox classroom that used to be an office, and which does not have any storage or even room for all my instruments, because the classroom teachers complained about having to walk their kids out there for music. It would be easier to take if all the teachers on campus had a similar schedule, but I have access to all the schedules, and no one at the elementary level has close to as many teaching hours per week as music and drama do. It's very frustrating. We're expected to keep meticulous records for our standards-based grades, submit lesson plans for three grade levels, and deal with the same paperwork issues as the classroom teachers, but we're given much less time to do it. Anyway. All that is to say that I don't feel bad about not going to get that 2nd grade class yesterday. They often pull a class for picture day or an assembly or something, so I always circle back around and cover the same concepts again later. These kids will get the material eventually.
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Oct 15, 2019 13:28:50 GMT
If you're tailgating me I will slow down and it makes me especially happy when someone is in the right lane and you can't go around me. I'm not a slow driver, I stay with traffic (sometimes faster) and there is no reason for you to ride 2 inches from my bumper!
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QueenoftheSloths
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Post by QueenoftheSloths on Oct 15, 2019 13:43:15 GMT
I will stand at the grocery store check out until they bag my groceries, mainly because I can't really do it myself although I look physically capable. I get nasty stares but too bad so sad. If you are nice to me I will politely ask you to bag them and tell you I'm disabled but if you give me attitude or are rude you get nothing. Do you mean you just stand there without saying you want your groceries bagged? How do they know that is what you are standing there for?
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Post by peano on Oct 15, 2019 13:54:39 GMT
The piercing studio where I had my three cartilage piercings done is super strict. I wanted to have some additional lobe piercings done in the summer, but they refused because my cartilage piercings (even though healed and ok) were less than a year old. So I went to another piercer locally last week and had three more lobe piercings done. I'm contemplating taking a total walk on the wild side and having another cartilage piercing done when the lobe piercings heal, BEFORE the year anniversary of my cartilage piercings.
I always inwardly make fun of the term "weight loss journey" only because I only ever see it written and never uttered. If I heard the phrase from someone, I would make fun of it. And I've had weight issues my entire life.
I freely admit I generally despise musical theater, and people always look at me as if I've just said I torture puppies and kittens.
Other people's children are generally not all that cute to me, although there are always exceptions.
I refuse to allow anyone to bag my groceries, because I run the risk of having a bagger who thinks it's a-ok to put canned goods on top of lettuce.
I get my car serviced when the wrench lights up. I do not want to clutter my brain with keeping track of car mileage accumulations.
When I eat out, I rarely get dessert, but when I do, I want it to be like I want it, which is coffee, hot, WITH the dessert, not coffee BEFORE the dessert, because I despise lukewarm coffee. Last week, DH and I experienced an absurd comedy of errors, where my coffee was brought first, my fingers tapping on the tablecloth waiting for the dessert. Dessert finally brought, but by then, coffee was cold. Complained, dessert was snatched off the table, and ANOTHER cup of coffee was brought--but again (tap, tap) where is the dessert. They finally managed to coordinate this operation, no doubt swearing at me under their breath. Only downside is that this REALLY felt like an old person complaint.
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Post by dewryce on Oct 15, 2019 13:56:00 GMT
If you're tailgating me I will slow down and it makes me especially happy when someone is in the right lane and you can't go around me. I'm not a slow driver, I stay with traffic (sometimes faster) and there is no reason for you to ride 2 inches from my bumper! I get the urge, believe me I do, but these days that is such a dangerous move and I ask you (general) to reconsider. I have seen so many people this has happened to drive very recklessly to get around you (general) and place everyone else on the road in even more danger than their tailgating did. It feels wrong, but it is safer to just let these tailgating people pass. Please know this isn’t personal or a judgement against you, and in the past I have done the same thing, I have just seen some terrifying driving and road rage caused by this exact decision. Now back to your regularly scheduled lighthearted thread about our stubborn ways
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Post by yellowrose on Oct 15, 2019 13:56:21 GMT
If someone behind me beeps when the light turns green, I pull out as slowly as I possibly can!!! Also if someone passes me when I am going the speed limit, I always frantically waved at them as they go around. And then if we get to the next stop or light at the same time, I wave again.
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Post by dewryce on Oct 15, 2019 13:59:50 GMT
I like rainbows and have resented how the LGBTQ movement has made that their symbol. So I was ordering a travel umbrella on Amazon and there were about a dozen color choices. I decided to go wild and crazy and ordered the rainbow one. I am taking rainbows back into my life. Awesome. I think you should put a rainbow flag on your golf cart for your next event in The Villages.
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Oct 15, 2019 14:20:07 GMT
If you're tailgating me I will slow down and it makes me especially happy when someone is in the right lane and you can't go around me. I'm not a slow driver, I stay with traffic (sometimes faster) and there is no reason for you to ride 2 inches from my bumper! I get the urge, believe me I do, but these days that is such a dangerous move and I ask you (general) to reconsider. I have seen so many people this has happened to drive very recklessly to get around you (general) and place everyone else on the road in even more danger than their tailgating did. It feels wrong, but it is safer to just let these tailgating people pass. Please know this isn’t personal or a judgement against you, and in the past I have done the same thing, I have just seen some terrifying driving and road rage caused by this exact decision. Now back to your regularly scheduled lighthearted thread about our stubborn ways Oh, I get it. I don't slow down to dangerous levels, just a tad bit. Just enough so they know that I see them riding right up my butt! Or just enough so that for a few seconds they can't get around me. I don't continue to ride down the road like that. I"m all about being safe and I know people can be crazy!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2019 14:24:52 GMT
Wow, take that LGBTQ movement
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Post by myshelly on Oct 15, 2019 14:29:25 GMT
I stopped standing for the pledge in 3rd grade and refused to stand for the rest of my school career. The phrase “under god” does not belong in there. Had a few teachers give me grief, but I carried a card from the ACLU that cited the relevant case law and told them they could talk to my lawyer.
Now my homeschool friends and I take pride in the fact we haven’t taught our kids the pledge at all.
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Post by dewryce on Oct 15, 2019 14:31:36 GMT
I get the urge, believe me I do, but these days that is such a dangerous move and I ask you (general) to reconsider. I have seen so many people this has happened to drive very recklessly to get around you (general) and place everyone else on the road in even more danger than their tailgating did. It feels wrong, but it is safer to just let these tailgating people pass. Please know this isn’t personal or a judgement against you, and in the past I have done the same thing, I have just seen some terrifying driving and road rage caused by this exact decision. Now back to your regularly scheduled lighthearted thread about our stubborn ways Oh, I get it. I don't slow down to dangerous levels, just a tad bit. Just enough so they know that I see them riding right up my butt! Or just enough so that for a few seconds they can't get around me. I don't continue to ride down the road like that. I"m all about being safe and I know people can be crazy! I’ve seen people blow up over even that. Like drive on the shoulder to pass, getting right in front of the car “blocking” them, and then slam on the breaks for a few seconds while driving 75 miles per hour crazy revenge driving. So peas be safe!* Driving is a pretty scary activity around here these days. * see what I did there?
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Post by dewryce on Oct 15, 2019 14:35:33 GMT
I stopped standing for the pledge in 3rd grade and refused to stand for the rest of my school career. The phrase “under god” does not belong in there. Had a few teachers give me grief, but I carried a card from the ACLU that cited the relevant case law and told them they could talk to my lawyer. Now my homeschool friends and I take pride in the fact we haven’t taught our kids the pledge at all. I remember this started bothering me in middle school so I stopped saying those words. But not because I was snarky and defiant (though I’m sure I was), I was just uncomfortable with them being included.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Oct 15, 2019 14:37:16 GMT
If you're tailgating me I will slow down and it makes me especially happy when someone is in the right lane and you can't go around me. I'm not a slow driver, I stay with traffic (sometimes faster) and there is no reason for you to ride 2 inches from my bumper! I get the urge, believe me I do, but these days that is such a dangerous move and I ask you (general) to reconsider. I have seen so many people this has happened to drive very recklessly to get around you (general) and place everyone else on the road in even more danger than their tailgating did. It feels wrong, but it is safer to just let these tailgating people pass. Please know this isn’t personal or a judgement against you, and in the past I have done the same thing, I have just seen some terrifying driving and road rage caused by this exact decision. Now back to your regularly scheduled lighthearted thread about our stubborn ways There are some real nutballs driving around out there and some of them are armed. I just pull over when it’s safe to do so and let them pass, yelling out into the safety of my closed vehicle, “That’s right, you go on with your bad self and flush out all the cops for us!” (And then laugh valiantly to myself on the very rare occasions when they actually do.)
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Post by myshelly on Oct 15, 2019 14:37:32 GMT
I stopped standing for the pledge in 3rd grade and refused to stand for the rest of my school career. The phrase “under god” does not belong in there. Had a few teachers give me grief, but I carried a card from the ACLU that cited the relevant case law and told them they could talk to my lawyer. Now my homeschool friends and I take pride in the fact we haven’t taught our kids the pledge at all. I remember this started bothering me in middle school so I stopped saying those words. But not because I was snarky and defiant (though I’m sure I was), I was just uncomfortable with them being included. Not saying them wasn’t enough for me. I was still participating and anyone looking at me would assume I believe in the pledge the way it is. I do not.
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Post by kiera on Oct 15, 2019 15:46:16 GMT
I do not find it pleasant to be around very loud children even though they are laughing and squealing in fun. Noise is noise and I give the culprit the evil and will move away if I can. (this one might upset some of you, sorry, but that is the way I am) I strongly agree with this. No, it isn't cute. They're screeching in a pitch that is close to the one that only dogs can hear. It happens a lot when I'm commuting home - part of my commute is a 25 minute ferry ride, and people will let their small children run around and throw themselves on the floor as if they're in a playground. It's incredibly irritating.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Oct 15, 2019 15:59:40 GMT
It is not polite or necessary to stand 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 inches behind someone in line, so close that the person in front of you can feel and/or smell your breath. Standing a few inches from the person in front of you, isn't going to make the line move faster, nor will it make it "your turn" faster. Whether I stand a foot and a half away or three feet away from the person in front of me. I will be arriving for "my turn" in the same amount of time. The more someone tries to "push me forward", the bigger gap I will leave. I get this; really I do- I have a need for a very large personal space bubble myself. BUT- sometimes the people in the back of the line have to move forward because the entire space for waiting isn't very large! Yesterday I waited at a UPS store and I was only the third person in line... the next person who came into the store behind me had to wait literally IN the doorway. And all because the first couple people in line wouldn't move any closer to each other than they had to. It's not like we have 'cooties' or anything-- people really aren't that horrible, are they? There's just NOT a lot of room in the area sometimes.
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Post by Judy26 on Oct 15, 2019 16:07:10 GMT
Wow, take that LGBTQ movement Right? I am constantly amazed by this poster’s sanctimonious, hate filled posts. I’m torn between thinking she is actually a teen boy pranking the Peas or a Russian Bot trying to recruit middle aged women to the dark side. SMDH...
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Post by 950nancy on Oct 15, 2019 16:07:13 GMT
Who gets three planning periods in one day? That is 60% of a week's worth of planning periods. If we forgot or were late for a special no one ever came to remind us. Thankfully the kids were pretty good about it. Oh, some days they have four. Some days “only” two. The kids go to gym four times a week and foreign language three times a week, music twice, art, library, drama, and technology once ... I think I’m forgetting something. We specialist teachers do NOT get that much planning time. I teach 30 classes per week. It’s insane and yes I’m bitter. It was the opposite at our school. We got one 30 minute plan for an 8:45-3:30 day along with a 30 minute lunch. Our specialists had 24 classes (30 minutes each) once every four days. Now they also had a 30 minute lunch duty before or after their lunch. However they also had lots of other times and days off because of conferences, parties, convocations etc, but I still would have rather had the same kids all day.
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Post by sharlag on Oct 15, 2019 16:10:30 GMT
And when I do a Google search I refuse to click on the [ad] links, I scroll down to the normal links instead. Me, too!
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Post by 950nancy on Oct 15, 2019 16:17:54 GMT
I do not find it pleasant to be around very loud children even though they are laughing and squealing in fun. Noise is noise and I give the culprit the evil and will move away if I can. (this one might upset some of you, sorry, but that is the way I am) I strongly agree with this. No, it isn't cute. They're screeching in a pitch that is close to the one that only dogs can hear. It happens a lot when I'm commuting home - part of my commute is a 25 minute ferry ride, and people will let their small children run around and throw themselves on the floor as if they're in a playground. It's incredibly irritating. Our backdoor neighbors had 3-6 boys (they kept adding one each year). They have moved and two barking dogs have taken their place. I will take the barking dogs over the squealing/shrieking/screaming boys ANY DAY. That high pitched tone drives me crazy. Now if I hear kids laughing or being boisterous and having a great time, that makes me smile.
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Post by dewryce on Oct 15, 2019 18:18:59 GMT
I strongly agree with this. No, it isn't cute. They're screeching in a pitch that is close to the one that only dogs can hear. It happens a lot when I'm commuting home - part of my commute is a 25 minute ferry ride, and people will let their small children run around and throw themselves on the floor as if they're in a playground. It's incredibly irritating. Our backdoor neighbors had 3-6 boys (they kept adding one each year). They have moved and two barking dogs have taken their place. I will take the barking dogs over the squealing/shrieking/screaming boys ANY DAY. That high pitched tone drives me crazy. Now if I hear kids laughing or being boisterous and having a great time, that makes me smile. They are so much worse at concerts than girls. The term “makes my ears bleed” was created to describe those shrieks. Literally painful in that circumstance.
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Post by tyra on Oct 15, 2019 18:30:58 GMT
I do not find it pleasant to be around very loud children even though they are laughing and squealing in fun. Noise is noise and I give the culprit the evil and will move away if I can. (this one might upset some of you, sorry, but that is the way I am) Hey, I have a very loud 2 year old and I even find him annoying sometimes, and other peoples kids... no. I have zero patience for others kids. Did not upset me in the least!
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Post by lesley on Oct 15, 2019 19:28:47 GMT
Wow, take that LGBTQ movement Right? I am constantly amazed by this poster’s sanctimonious, hate filled posts. I’m torn between thinking she is actually a teen boy pranking the Peas or a Russian Bot trying to recruit middle aged women to the dark side. SMDH... What is making me laugh about this is that every time she uses her rainbow umbrella, everyone will know just how much she supports the LGBTQ community. You go, girl!
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Post by kibblesandbits on Oct 15, 2019 19:47:59 GMT
I like rainbows and have resented how the LGBTQ movement has made that their symbol. So I was ordering a travel umbrella on Amazon and there were about a dozen color choices. I decided to go wild and crazy and ordered the rainbow one. I am taking rainbows back into my life. lol you're probably not going to make the "statement" you think you are. Enjoy your umbrella.
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Post by femalebusiness on Oct 15, 2019 21:54:05 GMT
Wow, take that LGBTQ movement Right? I am constantly amazed by this poster’s sanctimonious, hate filled posts. I’m torn between thinking she is actually a teen boy pranking the Peas or a Russian Bot trying to recruit middle aged women to the dark side. SMDH... Yes, there really is such a thing as the Village idiot.
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Post by scorpeao on Oct 15, 2019 22:08:06 GMT
If someone stands too close(less than 12 inches) behind me in line, I will purposely not move forward and I will leave a three foot gap between myself and the person in front of me, just because I can. I think at least 12-14 inches should left between the person in front and the person behind. I don't care how much the person too close behind me.....huffs, puffs, sighs, moves from side to side, inches up beside me, etc...I'm not moving forward until I want to. It is not polite or necessary to stand 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 inches behind someone in line, so close that the person in front of you can feel and/or smell your breath. Standing a few inches from the person in front of you, isn't going to make the line move faster, nor will it make it "your turn" faster. Whether I stand a foot and a half away or three feet away from the person in front of me. I will be arriving for "my turn" in the same amount of time. The more someone tries to "push me forward", the bigger gap I will leave. I do the same and sometimes if I'm feeling particularly bitchy I'll step on their toes or elbow them...I want to yell GTF OFF ME!
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Post by breetheflea on Oct 15, 2019 22:17:22 GMT
Oh, some days they have four. Some days “only” two. The kids go to gym four times a week and foreign language three times a week, music twice, art, library, drama, and technology once ... I think I’m forgetting something. We specialist teachers do NOT get that much planning time. I teach 30 classes per week. It’s insane and yes I’m bitter. I’m curious how long your music classes are? All of our specials run 30-45 minutes, depending on which special it is. Gym is three times a week, music twice, and library, art and computers are once a week. We do have some crazy schedules, where a teacher might have three specials one day and none on another, which I think is ridiculous. There's a big difference in teaching time for six thirty minute classes a day and six 45-minute or 60-minute classes. Our elementary school has 5 "specials". Art, PE, creative movement, music and library. I was doing a PE related fundraiser event, and got to experience three full days of elementary PE class (the teacher goes to a different school the other two days) and it was exhausting. Class comes in, does PE for 30-40 minutes (I could look it up...) , the first class leaves as the next class comes in... 22 times and a few times he had double classes (kindergarten). There was a lunch break but OMG, I'm going to ask if the PE teacher can get a medal. And except for kindergarten (it's early in the year) he knows all 460 kids by name.
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Post by J u l e e on Oct 15, 2019 22:22:06 GMT
Not really rebellion, but I mail things out at work. We have the stamps with flags. I've been putting them on envelopes upside down as a show of distress!
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Post by lucyg on Oct 15, 2019 22:27:45 GMT
Not really rebellion, but I mail things out at work. We have the stamps with flags. I've been putting them on envelopes upside down as a show of distress! Whenever I see flag stamps upside down like that, I wonder if it’s a rebel like you or just someone who wasn’t paying attention.
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Post by J u l e e on Oct 15, 2019 23:09:23 GMT
Not really rebellion, but I mail things out at work. We have the stamps with flags. I've been putting them on envelopes upside down as a show of distress! Whenever I see flag stamps upside down like that, I wonder if it’s a rebel like you or just someone who wasn’t paying attention. That's how it started! I stopped just short of putting a stamp on upside down because I wasn't paying attention. I went to flip it around then decided I'd just start putting them all on upside down!
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