Wow, you look so much like my middle school BFF it’s not even funny.

Ah, no. Here in NYC, our spring break isn’t until the last week of April. The NYS ELA and Math state test are the next two weeks. I don’t doubt that people travel outside of the state for business, and that I agree with you. They do have people responsible for handling our educational...policies (I hesitate to say…

Oh, I wasn’t disagreeing with your travel points. I got that. Was just bitching to myself early in the morning. Also, your comment tells me that you don’t teach/don’t know what is really going on with education in NYS at the moment. Too tired to get into it...but I am not anti-testing.

He’s a fucking moron. No way could he throw shade like that. I speak as both a frustrated NY teacher...and someone who has met him in person and has had a full conversation with him. Would be impressive, though!

That’s cute. You think Cuomo actually give a shit about education, especially special education? Signed, a very frustrated NY teacher during test prep season who is sick of watching her students, both special ed and general ed, pinch themselves and cry during developmentally in appropriate test prep/the state tests.…

He wasn’t ranting about society’s attitudes towards PMS; he was CONTRIBUTING towards them. When I tried to put him in his place, he accused me of PMSing. My father hates women and really doesn’t get it, despite having a wife and two daughters. I’m just grateful that I made it out of that house rejecting the BS that he…

I’m a Type A, 110% perfectionist. I am VERY hard on myself, and despite accomplishments I’ve made in my life, I can’t help but compare myself to others. It isn’t so bad that I can’t watch a talent driven TV show at all, but I do have an image in my mind for where I SHOULD be at this point, and constantly compare it to…

Listen, I understand. And you know what? Some things DON’T always get better. I was raised by a father with Narcissitic Personality Disorder, and have been abused my entire life. Even now, at 30, my father has done such horrific things to me, anyone who hasn’t experienced a person with NPD would think I’m crazy for…

Me too. No wonder I got the flu that year...and every other random illness. It was impossible to get any damn sleep.

Aw, did you work at Disney too? Nothing like closing Epcot Guest Relations lobby at night, and then doing the first Segway tour of the morning before the park officially opened...exactly 8 hours between shifts.

Well, of course you did.

I don’ttttttttt think this post was meant to be serious.

Me neither. 30 years old. Never in my life have I successfully done a cartwheel. I am strangely embarrassed by this.

I have never been able to, nor can I presently do a cartwheel. I just...never got it.

That Debbie Downer is fucking amazing. I still watch it too.

This is amusing me, because I always have my higher level kids make up their multi-step own word problems as a challenge.

How were your grades? I usually turn a blind eye to under the desk readers if they are keeping up with the work/scoring well on assessments. I was an under the desk reader as a kid, haha.

Twins!

Oh me too. And Rent. But unfortunately for me, I actually attempted to sing it.

Russian. She had her daughter over there (now is 20), so I don’t know exactly when she came over, but it was in the past two decades. I should also say that I teach in a VERY Russian area of Brooklyn, and this sort of attitude is VERY prevalalent even among my students. I never felt one way or another towards…