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.
October 09, 2005
Cumulative Effects of Stress on Rosacea
I crashed healthwise this weekend after the nightmare of a week I've had. Fortunately the cat rescue group was not scheduled to show animals so I was able to pull the covers up and hide. I got a good 9 hours sleep Saturday. When I woke up Sunday the flushing was much better. My back is also feeling somewhat better and my heart has been doing ok today. A residual nervousness and a headache are all that remains of the previous week. Next week is another matter. We give the PSAT test Wednesday to our homerooms. Monday at 8 AM I go in for training.
Tuesday one of our assistant principals has scheduled a meeting with the science department to 'discuss' the switching of Biology with Physical Science in the sequence of courses. It still makes no sense because they want to keep Biology I Honors at the 9th grade level. What happens when someone in Biology Honors does poorly and drops into standard courses the following year? They will be out of sequence. In true educational tradition I'm sure this will not deter those who are pushing for the change. The sad thing about this is that the real reason for the change is that two of the new Biology teachers can't deal with their large classes in portables and they hope that a little more maturity will make their job easier. I suspect that part of the problem is that they are not very adept at teaching. The rest can be blamed on the stupidity of those who decided to cram 34 kids into a tiny portable. Whatever the reason, the result will probably be a complete shuffling of rooms and a lot more work for some of the teachers (including moi!). Four and a half more years and I can leave this type of silliness behind. I will miss the teaching but not the rest of the garbage.
Posted by Ken Albin on October 9, 2005 07:27 PM