Wife bought a device to break her classroom window so they have another avenue of escape in the event of a school shooter. Totally normal thing for a teacher to buy and pay for herself
Wife bought a device to break her classroom window so they have another avenue of escape in the event of a school shooter. Totally normal thing for a teacher to buy and pay for herself
It'd be nice. I resigned myself a long time ago that we'd spend our own money to provide appropriate teaching resources in the classroom. Escape equipment though? That feels like a whole new levelHopefully America will get over itself at some point.
When you have to compare your country to Mexico to try to feel better about yourself, you might have a problem.You should see what happens in Mexico.
OOof. Bad administration is why my wife left her last job. I hope it goes well for your wife.My wife hasn't mentioned to me she's had to purchase any safety equipment for her class. She has windows in her class that are probably not up to code, I think they're something like 5 or 6' high so it'd be a little tough to get kids out. But yeah, she's spent a ton of $ on supplies this year.
On the subject but a bit of a rant: My wife is having a really tough time this year. She said the kids are especially bad (she's 1st grade), they have a new principal none of the teachers get along with (I guess she used to be a teacher at the school but since she became principal it's gotten to her head), and there's no real leadership. I keep telling her nothing will happen if nothing is being reported, but she's trying to lay low and get through the year.
Isn't a AR-15 the preeminent tool for window breaking?Wife bought a device to break her classroom window so they have another avenue of escape in the event of a school shooter. Totally normal thing for a teacher to buy and pay for herself
the 2nd most likely place on the planet to have a school shooting......You should see what happens in Mexico.
Yea I tell her all the time she needs to leave this district and go to the next town over where she has some other friends that work there. There's issues at that district too, but I don't hear her friends complaining nearly as much. This new administration is just completely unprofessional and smells of nepotism. The principal is lets her sister walk around the campus like she's the vice principal (she is a teacher on campus for special needs but only has 1-3 kids a week) and she's involved in a lot of meetings where she shouldn't be. The principal came from a hard life which I applaud her for, but in meetings she talks like she's talking to her homies lol And it's always her way or the highway regardless of what more experienced teachers try to tell her. This is the 4th principal in 4 years at the school my wife works at.OOof. Bad administration is why my wife left her last job. I hope it goes well for your wife.
Agreed on the kids to seeming to be getting harder. For an objective measure the IEPs and 504s are through the roof - at least for SE MI (for you non-teacher households: these are kids with formal modification to instruction and test taking they are legally entitled to. So the teacher has to do custom things for them that, if the teacher ever fails to do, there are legal ramifications). 1/3 of my wife's kids last year had some sort of accommodation and its been such a sudden spike it seems like none of the schools have a great way to deal with this influx. We build some google forms and spreadsheet workflows together for her to track stuff but that's a one off for her. Resource and parapro funding hasn't been increased so its just more crap that falls on the teacher