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Month: February 2015

I’m going to Disney World!!

2 / 13 / 15

No, seriously though.  One month from today (our second Friday the 13th in a row) I will be here:

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The gorgeous Hyatt Regency in Orlanda Florida.  Which is so very literally directly across the street from:

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Guys…..guys…..so excited.

I mean…I am there to WORK and all, but if you think in the four days I’m there I’m NOT going to Disney World, you have issues.  I go to the American Counseling Association Conference every year.  And the past couple years, they have picked some pretty awesome locations.

Last year, this was my view:

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Hawaii 20142That, my friends, is Hawaii.  HAWAII!!  I’VE BEEN TO HAWAII!! I went for 8 days (because Hawaii) and it was GORGEOUS. I will go back one day because I didn’t see nearly enough of it.

But this year is Florida, which is also beautiful.  Next year is Montreal, Canada.  Now, I know I can’t do hot and sunny locales for this every year, but I’ve heard that Montreal is beautiful, too.  Apparenlty, we also have Nashville (which I’m kinda meh about), Atlanta, and New Orleans following up for the next few years.  We’ll be at the Montreal Convention Center next year which is pretty amazing in it’s own right:

Montreal Convention Center

Now, yes I’m at a conference.  Something that usually sounds really boring.  But ACA Conferences are actually, usually, a lot of fun especially now that I know a good amount of people there.  I have two really good friends that go every year, too, and even though the three of us hang out with our menfolk and do dinner and such; this gives us a reason for us girls to have some time without the gents.  And we get to go to Disney World together.  YAY!  Devon’s mad.  I did invite him to join, Mr. I-Don’t-Like-To-Miss-Work.  Which, while commendable, is annoying.

So yeah, while most are freaking over “OMG FRIDAY THE 13TH”  I’m counting down to Florida.  Only 28 days (since I leave on the 11th) until I get to be in the sun!  Woot!!

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Thanks, Timehop

2 / 12 / 15

Thanks for reminding me of the worst day of my career I’ve ever had.

A year ago today I had to do one of the things that counselors dread which is report abuse.  And this one just hit me so hard, I was actually losing composure while I was making the report.  I had to excuse myself at a point because I needed a moment to get control over myself.

It was so hard because I was essentially listening to my childhood through this child and it just brought up so many feelings that I hadn’t dealt with yet.  I refused to let this child go home that afternoon with who normally picked them up.  There might have been some personal feelings playing into that but I couldn’t allow this child to be unsafe for another night.

I went home and just sobbed.  I had never been so affected by hearing a story of child abuse even with my history of being abused as a child.  This just got to me so deeply.  Even a year later, the child is safe now and I still have a way to keep in touch with what is going on since I’m not at that school anymore.  But, it still gets to me.  Just as I’m thinking of it.  I’m remembering the details and its still so heartbreaking.

I remember crying to Devon most of the night (we didn’t live together yet and it was snowing/blizzarding, so we were in our mutual homes on opposite sides of town at this juncture) over Facebook messenger.  He felt bad because he didn’t know what to say and because he was so far away and I’m pretty sure that was how my Valentine’s Day surprise resulted the following day (He surprised me with a “vacation” for the weekend – in Baltimore, but essentially the midpoint between us because it was snowy outside – which gave me the chance to deal with everything that happened with him there when I needed him).

I know this child is okay now because I made the report and made someone do something.  I know that I’m okay now, too.  But it’s still hard to know that we aren’t the only two to have ever had something like this happen to them.

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Educators = Lazy???

2 / 11 / 15

A debate sparked on my Facebook yesterday.

Most of my area schools were closed because it was pretty icy and slick yesterday.  My county was the one main exception in the metro area and was just on a two-hour delay.  I, like a lot of people, whined a bit.  Mainly just because I’m afraid to drive in ice and hearing dozens of accidents around the area made me nervous.  So I made a Facebook status that was essentially “Booo school” and a few of my fellow school counselors agreed (those that had to work as well) because they were also nervous about the drive.

Another Facebook friend of mine decides to make a status “Why are all of you teachers bitching about ‘only’ having a two hour delay, it’s not like you all work all year like most of us hardworking people.  You have kids 10 months that you ‘teach’ and then you play all the rest of the time.  Just shut up and go to work like everyone else  that actually has the ambition to work all year”

I’m like……what the hell?????

And, of course, it started a whole long debate about how ignorant that comment was and the original poster sticking to their guns saying that teachers are lazy and it’s why our kids are so “stupid” and why we’ve fallen so far behind because teachers are more concerned with not being in school than doing their job [that they don’t have to do all year like “hardworking people”].

I will never be the person that makes the generalization that all educators aren’t lazy and that we’re just as hardworking as everyone else.  It’s not true.  There are “bad seeds” in every occupation.  Maybe this person has experienced some of the “bad seeds” and for that I’m sorry, but to overgeneralize that we are all lazy and horrible at our job is so offensive to me.  Some of us work 50-60 hours a week to make sure that our kids are well taken care of.  And just because we’re not in school for two months, it doesn’t mean that we’re not working.  I already have a to-do list for this summer of things I want to change and implement at Seton for next year.  I can’t do any of that during the school year because I simply don’t have the time to work on it.  So that is what the summer is for.

I know teachers who go to work at 7am and don’t leave until almost 5pm most days (Devon is one of them, as am I).  My school day ends at 2:40, but I’m still usually in my office working until at least 4:30, after arriving by 7:15am most mornings.  Then I take things home to work on.  I love that we get laptops here to use because I can take work home with me on the weekends and at night so that I don’t have to be in my office longer.  Devon brings work home on the weekends too.  I don’t know of too many educators that don’t take time to plan or grade or research stuff on the weekends for the upcoming week.

I understand that education is not what it used to be in this country.   Any GOOD educator knows that and is working at their best to try and do something about it. We can’t do this alone but in a lot of cases we are.  Belittling what we do by saying we don’t work hard and we have “cushy” hours is ludicrous.

I’ve seen people say this before and the only argument I can ever think to say is, “if you think it’s so easy come do my job for a day; come do Devon’s job for a day (yes, the 7th grade science teacher at a Title One School – which is a poverty school for those that don’t know what Title One means), do any of my friends who are teachers or counselors jobs for one day.  See what we see.  Hear the stories that counselors listen to and try to help with all day”.  It’s a lot. It’s hard work.  The majority of us do it because we genuinely love it and want to help kids. It’s not for the “cushy” hours.  Help out in your kids classrooms and see what the teacher has to deal with all day everyday and you might think a little differently before you belittle what educators do.

It makes my head hurt.  The sheer ignorance is mind boggling to me.  And all of these people are a product of some form of education.  If they showed this ignorance to their teachers, maybe it has something to do with the general feelings toward education and educators in this country.  Something for them to think about.

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A No-Good, Horrible, Semi-Bad Day

2 / 10 / 15

Ugggghhhh. I dislike driving in ice.  Snow is fine.  Ice is horrible.  Thank you county schools for only being two hours late and making almost slide off the road twice.

Then I leave my school laptop at home, which I kinda sorta need.

Then I also left part of my lunch at home.

And to top it all off, I have an annoying pimple dead in the center of my forehead.

Devon’s home because his county was smart (for once) and closed the whole day.  Yes, I’m jealous.  I admit it.  I keep Facebook messaging him and calling him a doody head, just because in some weird way it makes me feel better.

Don’t judge.

I will be happy to go home at 3:15.  I’d be even happier to go home now.

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Now Following

2 / 8 / 15

So I’ve been trying to not do too much changing on here lately because I think I was doing too much of it initially.

One thing I did just add, however, is the Follow button on the side and on the bottom.  This way if you want to get email updates of my blog, you can just click the follow button either on the side or the bottom and you will get emails when I update.  This way it’s easier to stay up-to-date.

So feel free to click and follow me!  🙂

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