5:46 a.m. - Yesterday was deflating. I think the end of my teaching position at RHS is nearing sooner than later. This school year has really been a series of deflations all along; officiating basketball with a new crew and family has kept me going through these winter months. Last night's officiating gig at West Central went better than expected, which was nice, and tonight I have a night off to be at home and celebrate some grandchild birthdays. Plus, last night I got to see Carmen again, which was nice.
Today is Free Read Wednesday, so maybe some enjoyment reading and a night off from officiating spent instead with grandchildren will be just the medicine for my condition. I'll get through it.
Uncle Bill is in the hospital, and that weighed on my mind yesterday too. He has been in poor health for awhile, and my mom took him to the hospital yesterday. He's having some heart issues, and it may be the beginning of a downhill slide for him.
Yesterday, I had a student tell me he was intentionally doing nothing in class and then planned to take credit recovery. I know there is an interest in school districts to find alternate pathways for students to complete course credit after failures, but when the pathway motivates a student to intentionally do nothing during the semester, I question the value of my existence. What the hell are we doing as an educational system if we have a system to permits a student to just waste his/her/my/other students' time and energy? And what if that earned credit recovery appears to be the same course I teach on that student's transcript? And if students are just allowed to miss school whenever/however they want and then permitted to make up work, what are we teaching? I honestly just feel like an overpaid teenage daycare teacher...I feel like many folks just want a place for their students to go - unless they are taking a vacation or playing softball or volleyball or football somewhere during the school week - and have the teachers provide a few little easy activities that are then scored with a bright shiny "A" to make sure the children all have beautiful GPA's. And then through those easy activities, parents want to make sure their students aren't getting any schooling that might involve "bad books" or topics that are critical of white people. And then I here on the news that some schools are looking into cameras for every rooms so parents can see what is being taught and schools can provide transparency. What in the hell is all of this leading to? Well, like I said above...maybe my end is sooner than later. Maybe I just don't have the patience and trust and love and energy anymore.
On the other hand, maybe I just need to stop feeling sorry for myself, collect my paycheck and stop fretting over all this stuff. If the school district want to continue to make me a highly paid teenage daycare provider, why should I worry about it? In fact, maybe I should instead be thankful and appreciative that I get paid a lot of money to do what I do? Maybe I just need to roll with it...not care if we continue to decrease the value of an education, not care if we are turning out more and more underskilled immature arrogant teenagers in the world and let someone else deal with them.
Ugh.
English III
- create the English III next day's agenda and schedule post to stream
- score assignments and record into Lumen as needed - n/a
- print out score sheets for slave spirituals
- enter scores for Set 2 Khan Recommendations after 8 a.m. Thursday
Other Things To Do
- send IHSA email to Wethersfield and West Central
- plan and schedule South Dakota trip
- fix door downstairs
- finalize lineup for training path series
- if not next week QCETC, then go elsewhere.
Upcoming officiating/umpiring
- travel arrangements = https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KRJ5qpDZDvuEv-LahtrsNsmCt8sUBRrx8_cHvJewNls/edit
Feb. 9 - OPEN
Feb. 10 - HSGBK - 5:30 p.m. at Riverdale with Marcus and Colin Mix
45 minutes from Edgington
Marcus drives….picks up Jay at 4 p.m.
Feb. 11 - HSGBK - 7:30 p.m. at Davenport North with Marcus and Shawn
40 min. to Davenport North
Meet at Shawn’s at 5:30…Jay drives
Feb. 12 - IHSA girls regional- 1 p.m. at United with Shawn and Clint Gingerich
- IHSA girls regional - 5 p.m. at West Central with Jason and Robbie
- 60 min. from Edgington to United - Shawn and Jay drive separately
- Sunday, Feb. 13 - open
- Feb. 14 - IHSA girls regional semi-final at Varna Midland 7:30 (112 miles one way - 2 hour drive)
- Feb. 15 - HSBBK - 6:00 p.m. at Farmington with Shawn Cantwell and Andrew Teel
- IHSA girls regional semifinal games possible, but I don't think so.
- Feb. 16 - OPEN
- Feb. 17 - IHSA girls regional final game at Varna Midland 7:30 (112 miles one way - 2 hour drive)
- Feb. 18--OPEN - IHSA girls regional final games possible, but I don't think so
- Feb. 19--OPEN - IHSA boys regional quarterfinal games possible
- Sun. Feb. 20
- Feb. 21 --IHSA boys regional semifinal games
- Feb. 22--IHSA girls sectional semifinal games
- Feb. 23--IHSA boys regional semifinal games
- RTA Meeting with BOE - 4:30 p.m.
- Feb. 24 --IHSA girls sectional final games
- Feb. 25--IHSA boys regional final games
- Feb. 26 - OPEN
- Softball clinic Macomb 9 a.m.
- Jeff Dunham show 5 p.m.
- Sun. Feb. 27
- Feb. 28--IHSA girls supersectional games
- Mar. 1 --IHSA boys sectional semifinal games
- Mar. 2--IHSA boys sectional semifinal games
- Mar. 3--IHSA boys sectional final
- Mar. 7 -- RTA Meeting with BOE - 4:30 p.m.
- Mar. 23 -- RTA Meeting with BOE - 4:30 p.m.
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