1. Whether to apply to teach summer school or not.
2. Whether to bench a kid for leaving practice early, despite the fact that we talked afterwards and he apologized.
3. Whether to get up to go to the gym in the morning when it's now 10:56pm and I'm still awake (damn those west coast games).
4. Whether to take a day off on Thursday to clean the house in preparation for my dad's visit on Thursday night and the house concert on Saturday. (I have taken one sick day - when I wasn't sick, on a professional development day - and one personal day this year. I think I get a "personal business" day that doesn't count as a sick day, which is cool because we get to convert some of our sick days the year after in a system I don't quite understand but I'll certainly take that $400 again next December for not using them.)
5. Whether to cancel practice on Thursday, on the eve before a doubleheader. I'll almost certainly have to cancel practice if I indeed take the day off on Thursday.
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6 comments:
Summer school? And give up two and a half vital perks of teaching????? Are you MAD??
1. No.
2. No.
3. No.
4. Yes.
5. Yes.
What dilemma, there is no dilemma.
1. No don't teach summer school. Enjoy the time off.
2. Let it go, bench him if he does it again.
3. Go to the Gym another time or do some kind of excercise at home to make up for it.
4. Take the personal business day and do what needs to be done. You will have less anxiety. Then you can go to the gym if you feel like it.
5. You will have to cancel the practice and your team will benefit from it because they will be well rested for the double header.
IMHO
Ms. Cornelius: I'm of the opinion that the summer is one of the worst parts of teaching, simply because you don't get paid (and there's no option to be paid in my school district through the summer). Therefore, it's like getting laid off for two months every year. I'd much rather go full year and have more breaks (or have a 12-month contract option). I've got a lot of savings this year for the summer, but don't really want to drain them all.
The year I taught summer school was actually my favorite summer so far. No stress, nobody shows up, pretty easy money, get out at noon.
Yeah, I usually go the summer option, mostly because it makes me crazy not to work for such a long period of time. And then I start getting used to it, which makes late August that much worse.
Let the kid slide but make it clear that it wasn't an easy decision, and that you consulted 275 million of your closest friends to make it. (-:
Can't help with the gym, that ship has sailed.
Take the day off. I'm not the type to take random days off (that sick leave conversion is a neat Christmas present), but in the long run you'll be happier that you did.
If you going during spring break to the beach (Ocean City, Rehobeth, etc) you can line up a job for the summer. I enjoy being at the beach! Once the season starts (when school lets out) there's a mad rush for beach jobs. The trick is to line up a job a couple months before that.
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