Location: St. Augustine, FL
About Me: A high school Biology teacher's coping with rosacea while living in the interesting and sometimes insane world of public education.
August 05, 2004
Preplanning - Day 4
The kids come tomorrow. I still have no computer. I asked one of the assistant principals why I did not receive the homeroom packets of information to give out. He checked and told me that I had somehow not been assigned a homeroom. He promptly gave me one. Stupid, stupid me! We had an afternoon faculty meeting with a very high stress level. The answers kept changing during the meeting. It was rather tragicomic. The rosacea is a little worse today. I've gone back to putting on chamomile extract, something I haven't done in months.
The whole thing is like a Three Stooges comedy here. I enjoy teaching but the turmoil and uncertainty are wearing me down. I have 5 more years before retirement. At one time I thought about teaching beyond that time. The way I feel now, it can't come soon enough. This has been the second worst school start that I've had, and it's causing flushing levels I haven't had in a year. Hopefully I will have better news in the near future.
Posted by Ken Albin on August 5, 2004 02:48 PM