Retirement Feelings - School Supply Stress
Summer, 2012
As strange as it may seem, walking into a store and seeing countless racks of new school supplies during the summer following retirement affected me in a very negative way. Feelings of illness suddenly overwhelmed me combined with grief and regret that I would not be returning to school. When I arrived home, I did some real soul-searching.
I told myself that I could not continue to react this way; negative feelings are simply not productive. Of course I would miss the children and staff, but there are some things about teaching that I would not miss. Instead of dwelling on, "Why me? Why did I have to get sick?", I went home and wrote a list of some of the least favorite and/or dreaded activities related to teaching. That list follows:
No longer will I be required to do the following:
- Regular Duty
- Breakfast Duty
- Detention Duty
- Lesson Plans
- Grade Papers & Tests
- Attend PLC Meetings
- Attend other meetings (Parish-wide)
- Eagle Tests & Analysis
- Design Tests & Projects
- Copy & Staple Papers & Tests
- Deal with Discipline problems
- Deal with incomplete assignments
- Weekly Conduct Sheets & grades
- Grade, record, and distribute weekly Signed Papers
- Plans for Substitute Teachers
- Deal with irate parents (conferences and calls)
- Write up Minor and Major Referrals
- Administer, grade, and analyze Benchmark Tests (Math & ELA)
- Reading Benchmark Tests
- LEAP Prep
- LEAP Tutoring
- LEAP Test
- Send home "Failing Letters"
- Etc., Etc., Etc...........
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