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All the work stress I had been holding in under worrying about coworkers taking it less well and the "it is what it is" fatalism just kind of broke through.
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I am doing about three times the work I was doing in fall semester.
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I get new things foisted on me with sometimes not even a full 24 hours notice.
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I have now been informed I have to do huge chunks of my teaching in Spanish.
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I am rudimentarily capable of Spanish. I could survive until I got to an English speaker levels.
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I can read better than I can speak it.
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I now have to do all content previews and reviews in Spanish.
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Which is bullshit, I was told when I took this job me not speaking Spanish fluently wasn't gonna be an issue.
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Now I am writing lessons partially in this language with a dictionary in my lap and Google Translate open on another tab.
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Just hoping I am getting all of this right.
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And like.
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We have resources for this.
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But the other first year teacher is such a fucking Baby Huey fuckup that our instructional coach we share with two other schools was, last I checked, literally writing all his lessons for him.
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And now my next door coworker is like she always had problems but she's getting worse and she has years of experience so there's no explanation, but our ESL specialist is taking over tons of her workload.
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So all the resources I should be able to tap as the new guy are beyond overworked.
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I'm having to fly blind and with what little help I even feel comfortable asking for because everyone who is supposed to help is slammed.
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And I'm terrified when I get to next year, I'm gonna have problems and it's gonna be a constant "well you didn't teach me that because soandso had the specialist for that the whole time."
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It's choking.
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It's absolutely claustrophobia inducing.
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Tomorrow I have to go in, work morning duty from 6:15 to class start time and lead a class Socratic seminar while pulling writing samples that we got about 20 hours notice on and then teach 4 classes, have a rehearsal of something I didn't get training on but have to present a lesson in the style of on my planning period, help run the esports club after
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school, come home, put all my grades in, and get up for morning duty again tomorrow.
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I have so much shit going on it wouldn't even fit in a post.
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And every day has been like this.
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And like I said, our specialists are slammed, my three senior colleagues who aren't monopolizing them are slammed with even heavier workloads than mine, so there is nobody I can reach out to for help here.
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Oh also.
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Because one of our coworkers fucked up her lessons so bad.
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I have to plan a week of lessons straight next week.
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Condense 9 lessons and a culminating task into 5 days.
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No room for error.
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No room for spillover.
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Someone else used all the flex days.
Wolfgirl Winter
oh god
Wolfgirl Winter
that sounds so stressful
lotus 龙 wife
oh god
P. ianthina
oh fuck all of that, I'm so sorry
paradisaea
Honestly I'd take it to your boss and go "I can get better offers if this doesn't get better" because...you can. you have a double cert and a masters in rhetoric. they need to make this up to you somehow.
塔露拉·雅特利亞斯
christ what a nightmare
The Raƶe
This both saddens and infuriates me.
creature
this sounds on par for education in the US rn I'm so fucking sorry
Echo
That's horrible, I'm with Clover on this.
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Well this year I’m on an intern teacher contract which is terminate at will.
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So not the time to play hardball.
paradisaea
true, but like. it's not something you should stoic through, either. at the very least, bringing it to vargas' attention might means she intervenes with dumbfuck mcwhitebread.
paradisaea
so the coach can be freed up
paradisaea
I don't even really think this is Vargas' fault but I'm not like, terribly impressed with Aldine ISD