Comments on: Twitter Update http://sherryness.com/twitter-update/ Wed, 25 May 2011 21:37:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: naomi http://sherryness.com/twitter-update/comment-page-1/#comment-2996 naomi Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:38:07 +0000 http://sherryness.com/?p=280#comment-2996 some young pup at the school board tried to convince me that boy went to school the same number of days as i did. that is so not! he got a semester break in elementary school, and they don't work on semesters. they'd get days around remembrance day while we only got the one day. they also get "professional planning and development days", one a month, that we didn't get off. they also get a monthly staff meeting early release. i can only remember 2 (not to say they didn't happen more often though) back in the day teachers used to do a whole lot more on their own time than they do now. i don't begrudge them the pp&d days because that's when they get together as a school and share ideas and such. but it's the semester break in elementary school and the extra days around remembrance day that get me. same number of days, indeed :P some young pup at the school board tried to convince me that boy went to school the same number of days as i did. that is so not! he got a semester break in elementary school, and they don’t work on semesters. they’d get days around remembrance day while we only got the one day. they also get “professional planning and development days”, one a month, that we didn’t get off. they also get a monthly staff meeting early release. i can only remember 2 (not to say they didn’t happen more often though)

back in the day teachers used to do a whole lot more on their own time than they do now. i don’t begrudge them the pp&d days because that’s when they get together as a school and share ideas and such. but it’s the semester break in elementary school and the extra days around remembrance day that get me.

same number of days, indeed :P

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