Does Teaching Make Me Happy?
I Have a Love-Hate Relationship With My Job
I have been on Spring Break; I return to work on Monday.
I am supposed to return to work on Monday.
Monday is a planning day.
I woke up with that pain in my chest, the anxiety I have felt my whole life when it is time to return to school, the noise, the chaos…
I just logged into Employee Self Service to see how many personal days I have left.
50
Okay. That’s a lot. And if I take off, it doesn’t affect the kids.
I love the kids.
I have a secret. Sort of a secret. Not a secret anymore. Or maybe it was never a secret and everyone has noticed.
I have actually taken off every teacher planning day this school year.
I wasn’t going to take this one off. I was going to face my anxiety and walk into the crowded media center and sit for three and a half hours and listen.
But today, well actually yesterday, I started to anticipate how the meeting will start, with these generic pats on the back, how wonderful we are and that we are the best teachers in all of the county, and that he is PROUD OF US. Yes, that has been…
