Frozen History 7 Publishing Book Review Podcast

Category: Teacher News

  • Last Day Summer

    Last Day Summer

    By Andrea Menzies

    Time flies in summer for teachers. August 18 is the first day back from summer break in Chesterfield, VA schools. That makes Friday the last workday off from school before I have to wake up at 5 in the morning daily. I miss the money and the people, but I don’t miss the stress. I wrote several articles for the school newspaper in high school saying I wished all schools would have year-round school. As a grown up I also wish they would go year-round with a couple weeks of break. Students need massive schoolwork reviews after the summer break, students act bad before and after the break, teachers lack summer pay, teachers often need extra summer jobs, summer daycare is expensive for parents, and worst of all is the shock to the system of sleeping late before going back to early school. European schools only have a short break for summer then their students have better scores for University. Maybe someday a good system will become normal in the USA. Meanwhile I will soon miss sleeping.

  • Video Chant

    Video Chant

    By Andrea Menzies

    You know you have been teaching for a long time when the videos about classroom blood born pathogen warnings start to have dialogue you can recite and chant along with while watching. I can say the end of the video’s sentence before the video even says it. At least it helps me make all A grades on the quizzes at the end.

  • Teacher Jokes

    By Andrea Menzies

    A quick note that I am still doing teaching work in Chesterfield, Virginia this year. I am going to be staying in Maryland part of the time, but I have relatives I visit frequently in Chesterfield. I will be doing teaching work when I visit them. I have worked at Chesterfield schools since 2019 and I was never fired, and I have gone back to night school for my master’s degree. Until I finish my master’s degree I will still keep working part of the year in Chesterfield for a while, and I am going to be doing the new identity verification identification badges they require there. I am sorry if it confuses people when my online town location changes, but cars and trains do exist on planet Earth.

    I have had several people commenting online that I can’t be in the DC area if my Facebook location says Chesterfield, VA. They are probably worried they can’t rob things from my house if I am traveling around too much to leave things where they can easily grab them.

  • Secret Price

    Secret Price

    By Andrea Menzies

    I am applying to do an online master’s degree in education.  Yet many schools are completely telling lies about the price of their program with tuition and fees. I have had to discontinue many applications and programs as they suddenly admit the price will be at least twice the amount listed on advertising. They have an advertisement price, and a secret price they really charge. Thank goodness someone passed laws saying they have to disclose the information. My undergraduate degree was from a super expensive school, and the government limits maximum amounts of lifetime student loans. What is a good affordable program?

  • U Phoenix Escape

    U Phoenix Escape

    By Andrea Menzies

    I escaped the nightmare that is University of Phoenix this week, and transferred schools. The flashy advertising sucked me in, but full blown con-artists run that school and they should really lose their accredited status. Google the phrase “University of Phoenix lawsuit” and the Internet explodes with examples. No the problems are not a thing of the past. I dropped a class after 4 days when I got COVID19 and they tried to charge me for 4 weeks of class. They crashed my computer on a support call. The teachers are garbage. I will not say what University I transferred to as I have physically abusive ex-boyfriends from Texas and Virginia on the Internet that try to destroy my life constantly with unproven gossip. I often have to be vague on the Internet, and never admit to happiness with anything as they target my joy for destruction as proof they hate themselves. I will just say that I am glad I got accepted to many schools, and going for the easiest school to start classes with is not the best path for anyone considering returning to school.

  • Better Days

    Better Days

    By Andrea Menzies

    All the heaven saints made antibiotics, and after taking them I am much better. Thanks to all the people who wished for me to “get well soon” when I was sick. As a substitute teacher I work at the desks of the sickest teachers in the district, and this leaves me constantly extra sick. This is just one of the reasons I am going to night school online to NOT be a substitute teacher anymore. I have a million plans for summer, but being trapped in bed was not one of them.

  • Bad Cold 2

    Bad Cold 2

    By Andrea Menzies

    I had to go to the emergency room I was so sick this week. This time it was not COVID even though I had COVID19 a month ago the emergency room verified. I am thinking of filing a complaint as the person sticking me for blood tests did such a bad job there were pools of blood everywhere. They did a hand sick for no reason, and kept the needle in hours longer than needed then would not give me antibiotics I requested. Doctors so fear over use of antibiotics they don’t even respect appropriate use anymore. At least they did give me the medicine I needed by the end. I know they were crowded and understaffed, but that was strange.

  • Pre-Party Graduation

    Pre-Party Graduation

    By Andrea Menzies

    I am at a graduation pre-party for Alexandria Menzies in Fredericksburg, VA today. We went to Cracker Barrel and Quality Inn. Cracker Barrel is really giving away free onion fries if you download the app and start an account at dinner. We ate some, and it was great.

  • Hacked Chapter 2

    Hacked Chapter 2

    By Andrea Menzies

    I got hacked this week, and can’t be reached well. Turns out there’s things called RAT viruses called Remote Access Trojan computer viruses. It is why you don’t want to click on strange e-mail links, and strange text messages links, but also they can do Remote Access over the phone in a call as well. Thanks to all the people who called, and mailed me many repair fix ideas. Unfortunately revoking access, reinstalled Windows, and returns to default settings all did not work, my computer is still crashed, and I am going to be offline on my computer a bit. The scammers are evil at making scams seem realistic, and faked being trusted workers at my school. I will never trust workers claiming to be my school again no matter how trustworthy they claim to be as some of them are disgruntled human sewage. I will change all my passwords this week in addition.

    *Note it was not fake workers pretending to be University of Phoenix. It was their real workers, called from their real hotline on their real logged in website that gained remote access, and put 15 spyware viruses on my computer crashing it which virus protection had marked clean right before the call.

  • Phoenix Computer Crash

    By Andrea Menzies

    A University of Phoenix worker crashed my computer yesterday. Any recommendations on how to get control back? A female in the financial department demanded to have remote control over my computer. There was no task that remote control was needed for in her directions for signing online student loan papers so it seemed odd to me. I have taken University computer use classes in Louisiana where the teacher said never give remote control of your computer to a help desk caller it will crash your computer. Yet I wanted my loans signed fast so I stupidly agreed. Bam, the computer crashed right after the call. It never worked again. It was working perfectly before the call. I had a paper due that night and had to write it on Google documents on my phone. Often I use the library computers 2 miles from my house for home work what if she had crashed a government library computer? A word of advice to anyone online reading this people working at phone help support desks are often petty and vengeful; they will try to crash people’s computers remotely, and you should never agree to remote control. Not only do I use my computer for school, but also I use it to get jobs at work. Luckily I had several relatives agree to loan me an extra computer, and the library nearby can transfer text from my tablet and phone into Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents. How do I get it working again the computer was new?