By Andrea Menzies
Today was a baby chicken day at Motoaca High. I am a teacher there many times a year, and some of the science projects had the life cycle of chickens on display. The cuteness was making my eyes burst.
Baby Chickens Video
Chicken book marks at the library.
By Andrea Menzies
In the below cartoon “Matt” is every school office concerning the worst permanent teacher towards substitute teachers. I have the degrees to work full substitute work, but I worked one IA job years ago when an IA begged me to work it. Now the school district tries to give me ALL jobs as an IA for disabled students which I fully HATE. IA substitute work is far lower in pay in daily wages for harder work. The office gives IA subs no lesson plans folder, no map, no keys, and no door opening badge thinking the main teacher will “help them” all day. What if the sub uses the restroom, or goes to her car to get a bag lunch, and the teacher locks everything separating the sub from her purse? The blonde with shoulder length hair at Bird High was horrible, and locked me out of the class room 3 times. “You should have gone to the SPED desk!” She yells at me when I banged on every door to do my job. I did go to SPED no one was there! Gym locked, classroom locked, and I can’t get to my purse as I need asthma medication having attacks in PE class. Main teachers don’t “take care of everything” at all, and IA subs do need maps, keys, and badges for bathroom breaks. This is reason one million why I am trying to get a permanent placement job to stop being a substitute as many permanent teachers suck crap and don’t “take care” of anything at all.
By Andrea Menzies
Scary events are happening to education right as my studies are going well with it. I am starting to think another pandemic will close all the schools.
By Andrea Menzies
Happy Birthday to Anne Brockett! She is having a landmark birthday party for her 80th today. This is why I had to drive around to the airport so much this week. It was for the many trips for our out-of-town family. We had many restaurant dinners for both Mexican fajitas, and also Chinese food. Tonight was one of the cake parties with candles. The clean-up will be wild.
By Andrea Menzies
Top posters of the week at places I work for Chesterfield Schools. I started teaching there in 2019.
By Andrea Menzies
I made all A grades in my first month as a University of Phoenix Master’s Degree student in the Masters of Education program. I have been planning on enrolling for years, but my student loans were blocked. Also it is intimidating going to school as an adult, and juggling my teaching day job with night school. This is why I went to online school as it is organized well for working adults. Thankfully, the conflict is resolved and school is going well this month. I enjoy having real challenges for the year.
P.S. : There will be no podcast this week due to massive homework exhaustion. The final exam all nighters have been epic.
By Andrea Menzies
I made all A grades at my University Night School classes this week. I am trying to keep up the winning streak so there will be no weekly podcasts on my WordPress blog.
By Andrea Menzies
This week’s podcast may be delayed as I am registering for night school to get certifications I need for more work hours in teaching jobs. My book recommendations may go from fun weekend fiction to University textbook commentary this month. Entertainment reading will take a backseat to night school class reading as I start new online classes. I have been working for years to get into the program so it should be interesting. In addition I needed many shots for COVID at Walgreens. I always reacted badly to shots in the past. After this hassle my posts will be on schedule once more.
By Andrea Menzies
Woot I got the 30 day streak badge on the Sunny Heath and Fitness app. You can use their equipment for extra points, or use it for free with other equipment you own already. It is thousands cheaper than Peleton. My mom and daughter ate dinner with me around Christmas time, and they made what seemed like one million cakes and pies. I am trying not to let the calories do what they want to do on my thighs. In addition this is my last post on social media for a while. The other day one of my students quoted a social media post I made back to me from weeks ago. I never try to add students to my accounts, and it is against school policy. A few of my student friends from High School and University are all I want to see viewing my posts. Unfortunately students have older friends, older family members, and make fake accounts for Internet stalking. Your life is pretty pathetic if stalking a single mom teacher online is the one way you can feel excitement in your life. So I am taking a break from social media on the Internet, as it seems nice educated student people never communicate with me on social media anymore and trolls, scammers, and haters have become the entire population of the Internet. I blame Internet phones greatly because when a $2000 desktop PC was the one way to go online nice and fun student people were 99% of the Internet. I couldn’t wait to open my e-mails to see all the party and concert invitations near campus that were not fake scams. Once prepaid Internet phones started to be sold next to pawn shops in strip malls the Internet was almost all trolls, con-artists, and porn spam overnight. Fitness apps are the only good thing left online, and my latest New Year’s Resolution is to only post family or fitness app related content if I ever post again. People who are depressed cannot get out of bed much less do many workouts, and I am showing off my positive view on life.
Frozen History 7 Publishing Book Review Podcast 