A little calmer now. Kind of had a nervous breakdown after work. The stress is getting unbearable, only 5 weeks in. Never in all my years has it been like this. I feel like Im drowning. I cant keep up. They keep throwing more stuff at us they want us to do, contradicting what weve been told just days before so everything has to be changed, taking away all our autonomy and professional judgment, giving us scripts to follow that are poorly written, scheduling more meetings than the contract allows, making us rearrange our rooms and buy things with our own money to do it. I feel like the Red Queen, running faster and faster to stay in one place, never moving forward. I havent left work before 4 or 5 pm in weeks. Im exhausted. I feel powerless to do anything about it. Where is the union? Whats happening to our beloved profession? I feel so hopeless. Im in tears most nights. 34 years and I feel like I have no idea what Im doing. I just want my 7 year olds to enjoy learning and I want to have fun teaching them again. Most of all, I want to flexibility to allow them to explore and learn without all these rigid constraints. They arent happy and Im not happy. Theyre small children, not robots. Stop. Just stop.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 23:10:51 +0000
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