No, I didn’t bump it. I think I am loosing it!! I retired after 21 years of teaching this past school year. I knew that I would want something to keep me busy, as if I don’t have enough, so I applied for a few jobs as a teacher assistant in one of our school districts. I knew it would be a job easy to do and stress free. That was my biggest thing…I wanted something stress free. Being a substitute teacher for the district was also an option, but for some reason I chose to do this. So, for the last 4 weeks I have been a Title 1 Educational Assistant in a Title 1 school. All that means is that the school I work in gets extra federal dollars because it has the qualifying amount of low income students. These dollars are to be used to help bridge the achievement gap between these students and others that are achieving at higher levels. Let me digress for a moment.
Although no one will ever officially say that higher income students perform better than lower income students, they usually do. Why is that? Maybe because the families of students that come from a higher socio-economic background can afford to do a lot of things that low income families can’t. Things like, take your kids to see a play, the zoo, etc. In other words, they can afford to experience some of the THINGS in life that you wouldn’t think would help a child achieve. Maybe higher income families put more emphasis on education. Maybe they can afford to have one parent stay home and help kids with their home work. Maybe it is a lot of things. Who knows? Just know that no one will officially say the amount of money a family does or doesn’t have affects the achievement of its children even though in my experience it does.
Any way…I’ve been working as a part time 4th grade Title 1 Educational Assistant for two teachers. Corralling a class of 35 fourth graders is like corralling bees. They are everywhere and have something to say about everything! They can be just as disruptive and disrespectful as some of the older kids I used to teach, but they got something going that the older kids don’t. They are cute (most of the time), and they still like their teachers, and for the most part they still like school.
So why do I need my head checked? Well you see…the school is about to hire another 4th grade teacher, because the two classrooms have too many kids in them. I applied for the position, and I am scheduled to interview for it tomorrow. My reasoning is, I know the kids already, they’ve already been disrupted by having a sub take over their class for the past week and a half, and I feel like I can do it. Heck! I KNOW I can do it. But my stomach has been aching, and I’ve been dreading taking on that big of a responsibility again. We’ll see…I will probably not even be offered the job. Sometimes I hope that I am not because then I won’t have to decide and I can say, “Their loss!” 🙂
Here is my card for today. I realized I got this stamp set for free at convention, and I haven’t even used it.
I used two of my favorite colors on this one; Crushed Curry and Lost Lagoon. Although, Stampin’ Up! hasn’t had a color I haven’t liked yet!
Hope you enjoyed your visit today. As always, I enjoy hearing what you have to say either about what I’ve written or what I’ve created with my stamps. Until next time…
Happy Stamping!
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