any teachers????

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  • Mkin
    Mkin Posts: 43
    Not a teacher but studying to be one! I can understand though how hard it will be with the added stress of the changes!!
    Feel free to add me even though I am not quite a teacher hehe
  • zipnguyen
    zipnguyen Posts: 990 Member
    Oh and before anyone asks, not PE. I have a Ph.D. In finance and lecture in the economics department.:wink:
  • mdearing11
    mdearing11 Posts: 3
    I'm a college professor - you can add me.
  • tekavincent
    tekavincent Posts: 160 Member
    Have to admit, not one of my best days.
  • lisawest
    lisawest Posts: 798 Member
    Quick vent:

    I am a music teacher and my school is hosting our league music festival in 3 weeks. There are 10 schools in our league. I received the entries from all the schools last Monday and began working on the schedule. I got the schedule finished and emailed it to the directors on Friday. I received an email from one school (only a 30 minute drive from our school) that was worried about how spread out their large group performances were. (They are the 2nd closest school, so I scheduled them 2nd from the beginning and 2nd from the end so that other schools who are an hour or more away could get home at a decent time.) After I reread that email, I realized he had suggested that I switch his choir and his ensembles so that the ensembles went last and he could send the rest of the choir students home earlier. Ok. Fair enough. I made the change. I printed out all the schedules and mailed them on Monday. Today I get an email from his PRINCIPAL complaining because that is just too long for kids to be sitting around who are in band and choir but in any solos or ensembles. He went on to state that I was giving the large groups too much time with the judges, and league rules state that they can only have 8 minutes and I was giving them 15 (for the choirs). He gave me a nice tongue lashing via email. THEN he called MY principal and griped at her! She told me I didn't have to change anything if I didn't want to. Apparently she told him to get over it. I'm glad she had my back, but I went ahead and made a couple small changes that will HOPEFULLY appease the whiners. Now I have to go and re-print all of the schedules I had already printed, fix the times on about a dozen judges' sheets, and resend the new schedule out to all the schools. GGGGRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!

    Ok, so that wasn't so short. I apologize, but I feel better now!
    Thanks for listening!
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