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Would You Ever?
| Sun, 03-25-2007 - 10:12am |
I'm a bisexual woman. 19 years old, silly, funny lively and positive. I've gone on countless message boards even watched t.v. shows where lesbians said they would never date a bisexual woman.... They would however befriend one. As a few of you may have read my other posts where i've gone to say that i've never went to lesbian bars or clubs. It pisses me off to GUESS that lesbians would look at bisexuals as a "warning sign". I don't know how true it is but maybe you lesbians can clear this up....WHY DON'T LESBIANS DATE BISEXUAL WOMEN?

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Thank you...Welcome to the wonderful world of teaching!!!! I hope things are going well for you and you are surviving that awful freshman year. I don't mean "awful," but there sure is a lot to take in. BE where you are supposed to be, God, not another faculty meeting, the culture of the school (be careful here), duty, the suppposed 30 minute lunch that is never really 30 minutes, grading papers, IEP's, 504's, parent conferences, that "rush" during Back to School night, kids problems, well I know you get the idea because you have been living this.
Did hyou know that most teachers do not last 5 years. The attrition rate is horrible. I am so happy you have chosen education as your business. It's the best.
By the way, don't listen to the crap about "oh, you have your summers off, and winter break AND spring break." They have their 4-6 week paid vacations, a nice long lunch, lots of bucks. Now those of you who are getting your backs up right new, relax. It's all about the choices we made and every job has its good points and its bad.
It's okay to be a feminest. Back in the day, we wore that proudly. Now it has seemed to trun into a derogatory word-like "that's so gay."
In Texas, they bog us down with so much useless paperwork.
Thanks to Ross Perot and former governor George W., we do a lot of teaching to the test here. They call it the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills. We spend much of the day preparing the students to do better at taking the test. Fortunately, there still is time to teach our girls and boys the fundamentals of reading, writing, and math. I am fortunate to have a lot of veteran teachers at my school who have shown me a lot of short cuts and given me plenty of useful advice.
Will I last five years? Hopefully, I will get through, because I do enjoy teaching. Yes, I know it has not been quite one year for this rookie, but I am a very strong-willed person. I have a lot of energy. And I love a challenge. When people tell me I can’t do something, there is something inside me that says, bring it on!
My original goal was to teach at the high school or college level, but I like teaching the younger kids.
My short term plan is to gain a master’s degree in education and then perhaps to persue a doctorate. It all hinges on money and time.
I LOVE the kids. That's the best reason to stay!!! Every day is the same and every day is so different from the one before. They make me laugh, cry, and genuinely intrigue me. It is interesting how much things have changed, but how much they remain the same.I know that I was "called" to this job and that I am doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing on this planet.
I am going back to school for a second degree in technology. My classes are filled with mostly business people going for their MBA's or something like it and this has reallhy opened my eyes. We really see things differently than they do.
The paperwork sucks bad.
We also teach to the test here. It's called the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment. We also do Benchmark testing 3 times a year. Makes you wonder when it is that we actually teach the information that they test.
By the way, I was in Dallas about 6 years ago for a national teacher's union conference. Are you in the public schools? This was for the NEA. I know that you are a "right to work state," so you are probably not in a union. Anyway, I liked Dallas. Not a whole lot of attractions, but I had a great time.
Technically, I am a member of the Texas State Teacher’s Association, but as this is a right to work state, the TSTA really does not have a lot of clout. I mean, we do not have the right to strike, so there is little that the association can do, except lobby for us in Austin.
Right now, the Republicans are working hard in this state to come up with a voucher system to allow kids to attend public or private. I think it is a bad idea. There is not much supervision in this state over private or so-called charter schools, basically public schools run without much governmental supervision. Bush tried hard to get the voucher deal going in this state to help pay for rich parents to sent their kids to private schools. In other words, tax relief for the rich and famous. Overall, we need more money for public schools, but the politicos here have the general public bamboozled into believing that schools should be more efficient and that more tax money for schools does not mean better schools. Meanwhile, we have to have fundraisers by the kids and the PTA to afford to purchase a new photo copying machine.
I believe we might be a lot better off, money and benefits, if we were unionized here. What is it like in Pennsylvania?
I am at school right now. It is our library period, 9-15 to 10-15 on Mondays. I am just taking a few moments away from work to answer a few e-mails.
I am an officer in my union. I was also the operations officer for our strike three years ago. In business they would call me a shop steward. That's who the police asked for when we had a couple of problems. It was the first time in the district's history that we were eve on strike. We have over 900 teachers in my district and it was a challenging job, and being an officer is a challenging job. IT was a rush, though.
We have put money away to hire an attorney this time around. Their negotiator(attorney) was evil. We do not intend to be set upon again. We will have our own dog in the fight and not just a teacher negotiating.
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