Not paid enough for this sh**

[Peaches O Malley]

And yet I still can't wait to teach. :roll:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060824/ap_on_re_us/school_shooting_4


To all my sister wenches in the classroom..and incase you haven't heard it lately, you are AWESOME! ::lovemai: ::hug:: ::flowers:

[Vixynne Rose]

Good Lord... all I want to do is TEACH. Not have to wear Kevlar, not have to take self-defense classes, not run my classroom like it's a bureaucracy.

And FCOL, Vermont? Place of Ben and Jerry's, yummy extra-sharp Cheddar, and back roads that are closed for snow four months out of the year? Crud, when the thugs invade Ver-freakin'-mont, you know no place is safe.

:roll:

And I go back to my inner-city classroom in a week and a half. Oy.

[Lady Anisette]

To all my sister wenches in the classroom..and incase you haven't heard it lately, you are AWESOME! ::lovemai: ::hug:: ::flowers:

Hey, what about those of us who teach outside of the classroom? :-D I love to teach but it is in a museum setting. I get a different group of students every day. Of course, I do have my campers year in and year out. The hugs make it worthwhile. As do those moments when the light bulb goes on and they finally get it.....

It is really too sad when it isn't safe to be teacher..... :roll:

[Vixynne Rose]

Update to the original story:

ESSEX, Vt. (Aug. 24) - A gunman shot five people Thursday, killing two of them, in a rampage through two houses and an elementary school that ended when he wounded himself, police said.

One of the slayings occurred at the school, which was not in session. Police Chief David Demag said he could not confirm earlier reports that the victim was a teacher preparing for the start of classes next week.

One television report said about 30 staff were in Essex Elementary School. At one point, people could be seen running from the school, ducking their heads.

"At this point the scenes are secured and the community is safe," Demag said about two hours after the first reports of a shooting. "We have a suspect in custody. The suspect has identified himself as the only shooter. He is secure."

Demag said the shooter and the other three wounded people were taken to a hospital, but their conditions were not immediately known. The chief said he could not provide the shooter's identity, or a motive other than that the shootings appeared to stem from a domestic dispute.

Demag said one person was killed in the first shooting, which occurred at a home. The shooter then went to the school, where he fatally shot one person and wounded two others, Demag said.

The shooter then went to a condominium complex where he wounded a person before turning the gun on himself, the chief said.

Jillian Schultz, 22, who lives at the complex, said she was in the yard playing with her son and the son of a neighbor she knows only as "Chad" when a man ran past her, asking "Where's Chad? Where's Chad?"

Moments later, she heard four gunshots. Schultz said she gathered the children and "got out of there."

She said she then saw Chad, whose last name she did not know, come toward the building, bleeding from the back and yelling to call 911.

The alleged shooter was apprehended on a lawn between the condominiums and a neighboring greenhouse business, said Peter Bearor, who was arriving home from work at the time.

Dozens of police officers, including some tactical units armed with automatic weapons, converged on the school in northern Vermont, near Burlington.

David Pariseau of South Burlington said his wife, Ellen, a first-grade teacher at the school, told him she and six or seven other teachers had locked themselves in a classroom. They and others at the school eventually were taken to a supermarket about a half-mile away where authorities were not allowing them to talk with reporters.



08/24/06 18:58 EDT

[Peaches O Malley]

Hey, what about those of us who teach outside of the classroom? :-D I love to teach but it is in a museum setting. I get a different group of students every day. Of course, I do have my campers year in and year out. The hugs make it worthwhile. As do those moments when the light bulb goes on and they finally get it.....

It is really too sad when it isn't safe to be teacher..... :roll:

Yes, I actually meant all teachers, long day...short night.:roll: :wink:

[Gellis Indigo]

Today.....first day of school.....sooooo tired...

[Vixynne Rose]

Today.....first day of school.....sooooo tired...

::dons High Priestess mantle and decrees that Kyas must rub whatever parts make you feel better::

;-)

[Gellis Indigo]

::dons High Priestess mantle and decrees that Kyas must rub whatever parts make you feel better::

;-)

Actually, he's really good about that all the time. (He's good at it too!!) But tonight, I just want to rub my eyeballs. Getting up at 5:15 AM SUCKS!!!

[Vixynne Rose]

Actually, he's really good about that all the time. (He's good at it too!!) But tonight, I just want to rub my eyeballs. Getting up at 5:15 AM SUCKS!!!

Hell yes it does. I'd offer you a cup of ::needcoffee:: but it'll probably keep you up too late!

[Gellis Indigo]

Hell yes it does. I'd offer you a cup of ::needcoffee:: but it'll probably keep you up too late!

It's definitely going to be an early night tonight, that's for sure. (I gave homework in both my Language Arts class AND my Intro. to Alg. class, am I mean or what?!?!)

[surlywench]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14502154/

this article has a bit more detail. it seems the rampage was sparked by a bad break-up.

[Mistress Lisette]

<snip> Getting up at 5:15 AM SUCKS!!!
I hear ya. All this week it's been nothing but various forms of orientation all over North Texas it seems and prepping, prepping, prepping. Classes actually start next week and I'm already friggin' tired.

::moaning why oh why did I agree to teach an overload class...?::

::sleepy::

[Gemdrite]

I hear ya. All this week it's been nothing but various forms of orientation all over North Texas it seems and prepping, prepping, prepping. Classes actually start next week and I'm already friggin' tired.

::moaning why oh why did I agree to teach an overload class...?::

::sleepy::

Working in the Registrar's Office, it seems to me that all we have are overload courses. Someone please remind me why I am trying to become a teacher again?

[Gellis Indigo]

Working in the Registrar's Office, it seems to me that all we have are overload courses. Someone please remind me why I am trying to become a teacher again?

You're doing it for the children, right?

[MaidenFaeSnow]

I hear ya. All this week it's been nothing but various forms of orientation all over North Texas it seems and prepping, prepping, prepping. Classes actually start next week and I'm already friggin' tired.

::moaning why oh why did I agree to teach an overload class...?::

::sleepy::

mmmm....try 4:15am, and an 80 minute commute :yuck: AND I teach 13software programs to adults ::freakyf: on top of that adult cops :augh:

My elementary education major comes in handy*rotfl*

[Mistress Lisette]

mmmm....try 4:15am, and an 80 minute commute :yuck: AND I teach 13software programs to adults ::freakyf: on top of that adult cops :augh:
<snip>
::freakyf:

Heh heh, I also teach adults. I teach at a local community college, freshman composition I *and* II. This semester, though, I'm also teaching American Lit I--yay! Finally, I get to use the stuff I specialized in my PhD program! ...speaking of which, I gotta finish that syllabus...

[Gemdrite]

You're doing it for the children, right?

Well, it sure as heck ain't for the money, lol.

[Vixynne Rose]

Well, it sure as heck ain't for the money, lol.

Or the fame...or the respect...or...ummm, boy oh boy am I ever getting pumped-up to go back in a week or so. :roll: Whoopee. Huzzah. Oy.

[Gellis Indigo]

Or the fame...or the respect...or...ummm, boy oh boy am I ever getting pumped-up to go back in a week or so. :roll: Whoopee. Huzzah. Oy.

Ok...it's official...I have hit the "first week of school overload". You know, that feeling you get when the administrators keep throwing more and more paperwork at you that has to be done yesterday, and they have decided to give you a schedule that requires you to travel from room to room, knowing full well that you use manipulatives to teach your math class, and that you need stuff that's in/near/around your desk to make sure kids get done what needs to get done in study hall, and the teacher from last year promises parents that you will email them daily, and ....

I need a drink....

[Vixynne Rose]

Ok...it's official...I have hit the "first week of school overload". You know, that feeling you get when the administrators keep throwing more and more paperwork at you that has to be done yesterday, and they have decided to give you a schedule that requires you to travel from room to room, knowing full well that you use manipulatives to teach your math class, and that you need stuff that's in/near/around your desk to make sure kids get done what needs to get done in study hall, and the teacher from last year promises parents that you will email them daily, and ....

I need a drink....

Take your pick, Gellis honey! I'm buyin'!

[Gellis Indigo]

Take your pick, Gellis honey! I'm buyin'!

Actually, I'm drinkin' a Woodchuck right now. But thanks!
Do you know that first week of school "panic" I'm talking about? Or am I the only one that experiences it?

[Gellis Indigo]

mmmm....try 4:15am, and an 80 minute commute :yuck: AND I teach 13software programs to adults ::freakyf: on top of that adult cops :augh:

My elementary education major comes in handy*rotfl*

OK, MFS, you win! :-D
But still....I think we can all agree, early sucks.

[Vixynne Rose]

Actually, I'm drinkin' a Woodchuck right now. But thanks!
Do you know that first week of school "panic" I'm talking about? Or am I the only one that experiences it?

Ohhhh yes I know exactly what you're talking about. Throw in the nagging irrational fears of "OMG what if THIS is the year that they refuse to accept me as alpha bitch?" and trying to wade through student names that have too many consonants/apostrophes and not enough sound-out-able vowels. "La-kee-sh'awnn-ea-ta-lynn-eik'rey-ah-na, oh ffs, HOW DO YOU SAY THAT NAME, YOU POOR CHILD?"

Every year around this time, I start having nightmares. Last year, I dreamt that I was trying to bring my new class to the cafeteria for lunch. But, try as I might, we couldn't find it...no matter where I turned, what stairway I went to, no cafeteria. I woke up just as I broke into a cold sweat, thinking "Don't let them figure out you're lost, that'd be bad..."

Yeah, I completely understand the hell that is the opening of school. Gah. Pray for me, LOL!

[Gellis Indigo]

<snip>

Yeah, I completely understand the hell that is the opening of school. Gah. Pray for me, LOL!

Yup....but only if you do the same for me. I'm in the midst of it....you're getting worked up to it....

[Vixynne Rose]

<snip>


Yup....but only if you do the same for me. I'm in the midst of it....you're getting worked up to it....

Of course I will! You and all the other educator Wenches, because heaven knows we need all the help we can get! :wink: