nostr:npub1ddpukxz4rkcadch7gu5hqre42lju5spyg2ph747yvgysathy4ulqye2tax nostr:npub1k7qzkq4arqkvhx9xs5xrskdu6gqwff8xt87c79wqjc9tcc6upmkqsh3lrw I don’t really hate Spock, but he would definitely get on my nerves. What I really wanted to do was play with the cool medical diagnostic scanner he had… why don’t we have one of those by now??

One thing I learned in 2020 was that athletics always will have priority, no matter what. The schools never stopped sports as usual when we were wearing masks and "trying to stop the spread" of Covid-19. Sports continued, and most of the kids who got Covid first were the athletes. Some no longer can play sports. One girl I taught has never been back to school because her immune system has been screwed up, so she’s being homeschooled.

How messed up is our system of values?

The restroom sign we need to see more of in the world.

teaching.

It is very difficult to fight negativity when you are never thanked for anything and are ignored by people who should appreciate what you do. The first chapter also talks about this using the bucket and the dipper metaphor. I will admit, my bucket is empty. I feel like I have poured everything I have into this school, including my health, and have gotten little to no appreciation or even a “good job” for all the hours, days and years I have spent working for this

on top of the concerns and fears of teaching and living through a pandemic. While people around me seemed not concerned at all. I have tried to fight the negative feelings I have, but it is becoming more and more difficult everyday. I try everyday to think about the positives. The students are a huge positive in my life. These students are some of the brightest and most empathetic students I have taught in a long time. I tell the truth when I say they are literally the only reason I am still

as we are blamed for society's ills, and not one person ever thinks to put even one drop into our buckets. The last three years have been a very negative time for me and for many of my colleagues as well. Personally, I have dealt with the death of both my parents, the assumption of a responsibility I knew I had to do, but wasn’t emotionally prepared for, and no time to grieve. I have also dealt with the breakdown and betrayal of my body with injuries and chronic crippling illness,

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

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.

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/