My kids are the "advanced" kids. Our administrator reads the advanced curriculum like the kids have to have all of these electives: Gym, Art, Drama, Music, Band, Technology and Spanish. She says they have to have Spanish and Technology all year long.
Well, I'm not a genius, but since we only have 6 periods a day and they also have 4 core classes (math, english, social studies and science.) I'm pretty sure that's impossible.
So, anyway. At the beginning of the year, my kids were the only group that didn't have science. Since they have these 80 million electives, they just didn't schedule them science. Well, as of 2 weeks ago, somebody finally listened to me when I've been saying it since August. (See, before this year, Social Studies/Science were semester only classes)
They tell me, "okay, well, since its the new semester, you're kids will be going to science now." But since every other class has both science AND social studies at the same time, there are no kids for me to teach.
Principal wants me to teach Math because I'm certified in it. Okay, not a miracle worker. If they haven't learned it in the last 6 months, I can't teach it all to them in the 6 weeks before the Standardized tests.
She also thinks I should teach Technology. Why? Oh, because I'm 35 years younger than her and I can turn on/off a laptop and do the ctrl+alt+del thing. Not because I have the first clue about technology.
Or I might just become their science teacher.
This probably doesn't make sense. Because I don't get it either.
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Okay.....it sounds like you work in the "Hell's Kitchen" of middle schools....
I have a friend here in Springville that teaches 6th grade. Her big problem was that a kid in her class refused to read a book about the Holocaust because his "Diddy" said "he was too white for that."
What?! Crazy comes in all forms!
ha! you know, kids are supposed to be ignorant. It's the adults that really kill me.
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