Too Stupid
I've decided that I am too stupid to learn this reading program that I'm being forced to be trained in. I just hate the thing and I don't get the point of half of what I'm supposed to learn how to teach. I read the manual, over an over and I still am too dumb to get it right. I'm being observed in this next week and I KNOW I'm going to flunk.
It's pathetic.
I'm pathetic.
I'm stupid.
Now I used to be smart. I used to have a fairly high IQ, but I think I've lost a good 70 points. I can't get the hang of this thing.
Now, mind you, my attitude about it also stinks, which I'm sure doesn't help. I'm just sick of this thing.
I went to work today, still feeling stinky, and wished I'd stayed home.
I had a miserable meeting at 7:45 (a.m., not p.m.), that I knew was going to be the pits. These parents are big on rejecting ed plans and tossing us into court. They were already making those kind of noises and we never even wrote a plan at this meeting. They are insisting we reconvene in a month or two.
AAAAArrrrrgggghhhh!!! I don't want to have to look at them again!
Then there was the angry father who apparently stormed into my office while I was at this meeting. He's pissed off that I didn't' send him paperwork about his kid, but he doesn't' have custody of the kid and I had no idea I was supposed to do that. In that I wasn't available to see him he left an angry message to call him. The most irritating thing here is that the director of special ed was in my office at the time this guy stormed in and she refused to talk to him. If I was supposed to be in contact with this guy it was up to her to let me know.
I won't bother to get into the stack of phone calls that had to be return or the very nasty letter from another parent.
I answered them all today, and it took hours. In the middle of all this the principal was in and out because he had three different issues that he wanted me to deal with. Two of them involved paperwork that he had lost.
I'm ready for the last roundup, and I have to go work on this stupid reading program!!
Well, I guess that's enough of my venting.
Listening to: Andrea Bocelli
Reading: The Pilot’s Wife Anita Shreve and Letter from New York Helene Hanff
Weather: 60, sunny
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