SCHOOLS OUT!!!!! What a great feeling to have! My first year of teaching is complete!! As Mr. Flowers put it 29 more to go. To be honest I wont be a teacher for 30 year. I will do something to change this education system. World watch out!!!
Well school has been out for two days and I am already planning for next year. That is the nature of the beast I guess. My brain wont shut off. I can't stop thinking about all the things I want to do better next year. Imagine the ticker at the bottom of the news channel with all the updates, that is what I see in my head all DAY!!! I can't make it stop and there are some really great ideas so I decided to write them down. When I have hit my limit I will run down stairs and open my "To Do" list for 2007 2008 and type away. I have a list started with all the ideas and things I need to do. Sad to say this job never ends.
Well we leave tomorrow for Disney!! I can't wait. One week where I get to be a kid again. Mother inlaw is going so that makes things even better. She will do tons for us and make this week so great!! I can't wait. Matt and I are in much need of a vacation. His job is stressful and I don't make things easy so we both need some R and R.
This will be the first time we leave Stella for a week :(. Going to be hard, I am already sad thikning about it. She is our child and you have all these what if thoughts which to some people it may seem weird, we are talking about a dog. The kennel we are taking her to is really nice and a teacher at school takes her dog there so im not worried about the place. Nancy said she would go get her if she get depressed. :)
Well life is normal as usual. We are just hanging around. We still haven't found a church family yet. We were attending a church but we didn't fit in. I think being Luthern makes it hard to attend a southern baptist church. Nothing against a baptist church its just hard going from one type of church to another. Since we haven't attended this one in awhile, we really haven't looked for another. I know that is what is missing and I loved going on Sundays, made my weeks better and my mind set better, but we can't decide where to go. I know God will point un in the right direction, but I also know he wont take our lazy buts and drive us there.
So this summer I don't have a job. It is a touchy subject. I HATE the fact that I am a teacher with a 4 year degree and make ok money and still have to get a part time job for the summer. We work just as many or even more darn hours then any other buisness person and they don't have to get second job. I know some do for other reasons but most don't. I just wish society would see that we dont get summers off. We don't have a nice long break. I am putting my family under stress by not going out and getting a part time job. I hate that but if you look at the numbers I would have to work every day from 7 to five even saturday and sunday to make a fraction of what I make each week from the first day of summer to last to make a difference. I hate that. Matt has been amazing and not forced me to get a job because he knows how frustrated I am. He said it would all work out and I know it will but darn I hate it. I know this is the lowest my pay scale will be so in the years it will get easier (till we have children) but it just boils my blood. That is why I wont teach for 30 years.
So I am not the rep for our school with NCAE which excites me. I am so excited because I love to argue and I love to make a difference. I atteneded my first meeting and it was thrilling. I sat in a room with 50 or more people that were all like me!!! I know that sounds funny but these people are as crazy and want change as bad as I do. So next year my main job is to recruit people to join. I am excited to see how many I can get. I think as a teacher it is our duty to be part of NCAE. If you want people fighting for your rights you need to join. We have had two years of salary increase due to NCAE. Which would have never happened without them. The more members the more moeny and the more rights given to teachers. Right now they were working on getting teachers TWO days of leave that we wouldn't have to pay out of pocket for. I know your going huh. Let me explain. As a teacher we earn personal leave days like every other perfession but the catch is if we wnat to use them we have to pay 50 dollars for a sub. Now logically your should have your jaw to the floor right now. Sad part is there are rep. in the NC governemtn that don't have their jaws to the floor. They belive that teachers will abuse that right and be out all the time. They feel their children suffer when teachers our out. WE ARE HUMAN!!! My brother graduate from college next year and if I want to go see him fifty dollars out of my pocket. That is a joke. NO OTHER PROFFESSION has that!!! Hence why teachers all take sick leave, but as a first year you don't get that many. Parents seeing thier children win an award, fifty dollars, mothers seeing their fiver year olds proformance, fifty dollars. ALL those mean we have to pay. Its a joke, and guess what it didn't pass. they won by saying children would suffer and there wasn't enough money. MY BUT!!! That is a joke. There is money they just don't want to give it. (stepping off my soap box) So now you see why I am the NCAE rep for my school. I hate the way we are treated and I hate that people are makin decisions for us who have never stepped foot in a teachers shoes, and people who only care about money. So if you want more info ask!! or go to www.NCAE.org.
Well that is all for now! I am going back to make spelling lists for next year and working on my to do list!! Hope you enjoyed my soap box. Many more to come! :)
