I have often wondered how I have the patience for this line of work.
Essentially, as a teacher you take a lot of nonsense from all sides, the students, the administrators, the superintendent, the parents, and even the state or city when they decide to audit the school on a rainy day. Oh and you have to teach your eager or not so eager students to design experiments and all that other cool science stuff...
With all this going on at any given time it makes me wonder what has gone so terribly wrong in my life that would allow me to tolerate such controlled chaos on a regular basis.
I've come to the conclusion that the reason why I can put up with this sort of nonsense is because I was raised watching The Simpsons.
Watching The Simpsons throughout most of my life has thickened my skin for the irrationalities of the real world. I mean every teacher has a class with a Bart or Lisa Simpson in it. And has encountered the Homer Simpson of parenthood on parent-teacher night.
There's really no other explanation I can come up with as to how or why I would tolerate this line of work aside from simple desensitization through animated television. So thanks mom and dad, for letting me watch The Simpsons every night as a child!
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hahahahahaha! thank goodness for the simpsons.
"Controlled chaos" is a really good way to put it. Any news on what's happening to your school in the future? Closing? Not Closing?
Not closing, for now. But we only have like 15 students for September, which means that the remaining 300+ students will have to be over the counter registrants (which will ensure our closure within 1-2 years).
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