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So the last yr I taught I got “in trouble” w/the principal when a parent complained abt what I said in class abt some things going on in the district. I acknowledge I should’ve kept my mouth shut, but as a result I was made to read a book called “How Full is Your Bucket?” & write responses to each chapter. Did I mention I’m an English teacher? Soooo the titles of my “reports” were called “Empty Bucket”1-5. The principal & superintendent did not realize what they were getting themselves into. 1/
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ef1957c3... 2y ago

This was the first installment…. Chapter One of How Full is Your Bucket discusses how negativity can kill businesses, how it makes people less productive, more likely to have accidents, be sick, and take more sick days, run off customers. I believe this is true. I believe having had an empty bucket for so long now is literally killing me. At one point, it describes a prisoner of war that just comes in and lies down and just gives up, to die two days later.

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ef1957c3... 2y ago

That prisoner of war is exactly how I feel most days these days, and I don’t like it. Although this book is geared toward businesses, and how it lowers productivity in the business world, I know this is even more true in the field of education. We teachers have worked for so long without anyone filling our buckets. It feels like everyone, students, parents, our own families, society as a whole are dipping out of our buckets as we are expected to give to our students constantly