Education

I've been teaching at the high school level in a large urban high school for three decades now, and I still love it, but I came from the oilfield and construction industries before that, and grew up poor.

Our district has had a 30% turnover in each of the last two years. A young colleague resigned this morning after a year and a few weeks on the job - the total lack of support from administration, staff, and parents got her.

I was trying to have an actual discussion on another thread here earlier, and the other party was obviously just baiting me, insulting me and all other teachers as well. So I've made up my mind to do what I decided long ago in my classroom - my priority is my classroom, my students and me. I ignore anything that interferes with that, and I'm going to start doing the same, in fact just started doing the same to others who are only interested in insults and abuse.