September 26, 2018

1. These students have some personal issues going on....like some real things. Send good vibes to them. 

2. A piece of teacher burnout is that if you are good you will get voluntold to do EVERYTHING! 

2a. It's not fair. I want to go home and work my office hours and leave just like everybody else.

2b. I do not want to work anymore for free than I have to!

2c. Networking is not payment.

2d. Am I networking with Oprah? Beyonce? Lebron? The Obamas? I'm not so ok I'm not talking with people that have the power to change my life like I need them too.

3. Dating in the workplace...nobody gives a crap. But don't make it so obvious if you don't want people in your business. Then don't attack people who you feel like should know the business and most important......DO YOUR JOB INSTEAD OF TRYING TO DATE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HALLWAY!

4. I like to bring fun to my class because it's math and ya know....so I play music if it is a singers birthday. I have reached the time when these kids are too young to know anybody and their parents have failed them. They don't know anybody....hadn't heard any of Will Smith's songs besides Men in Black, no Boyz II Men, Christina Milian ( but I mean did we really know who she is). These kids were born in 2006 so anything of substance they have no clue about

4a. I played TI...they just knew it was TI..no words at all.

4b. They think Wild 'N Out is the funniest thing ever and reenact the skits over and over and over and over...

4c. They need to free me from these math classes and let me teach Hip-Hop and Society like I need to because it physically pains me to send students out into the world ignorant of musical goodness

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