Its so nice to come home to quietness.

After about an hours worth of barraging from some disgruntled teachers over lunch at statewide PD, I couldn’t wait to excuse myself and leave. All they could talk about was how busy they were, how unfairly they were being treated by their superiors and how naughty the kids were.

One of them was supposed to come along side and help me strategise for next year’s combined class I’m teaching, and apart from basically just telling me “its really hard” and that all I can do is “jump in there and hope for the best”, she basically didn’t seem to want to offer me any advice or help at all. I did manage to get a weblink for some resources off her which I haven’t checked yet, so I’m not even sure it works. I left feeling gross, weighed down.

I felt sad that for them that teaching was so ‘cut throat’ and there was so much politics involved. Maybe I feel this way because I’m still a new teacher so I’m still fresh and hopeful, but even so I never want to end up with that sort of attitude with teaching. Its so much more than just lesson planning and marking!

I was at the shops a bit later and the guy at the counter was really friendly and sweet, it was like a breath of fresh air after the auditory beating I had received just earlier!

I’ve had a few things swirling in my head lately. I might share them with you if I have time