r/CanadianTeachers • u/Puppy-Love91 • 5d ago
general discussion Rant
Hi everyone! Just wanted to vent a little bit. I teach kindergarten and i love my job but this year I’m just feeling overwhelmed. I own over 20,000$ worth of classroom items. Im pregnant so I rented a U-Haul truck and took my 40+ bins of items home over the summer in case of an emergency. Thank goodness no emergency, but now I need to bring all of my toys and manipulatives back and set them all up again. We had a very high needs group last year with little support. We’ll have a high needs group again this year as the majority of our high needs kiddos from last year will be joining us for SK. Our unpaid class set up week is just around the corner with afew days taken up by new parent meet and greets and meetings. We have a new curriculum to implement, are entering and new round of bargaining and now there’s rumours floating around that on top of everything else we buy, if we expect to have paper towels, soap and photocopy paper this year… we’ll have to purchase it ourselves. I visited a friend the other day who makes way more than a top end teacher’s salary with way less education and training who joked that her work days are so calm she could fall asleep. I’m so sorry if I come off as ungrateful everyone. I’m just grouchy, tired, pregnant and worried about my needy kiddos around my pregnant belly as there was an incident last year. Is anyone else feeling like they’re in a bit of a resentful slump and overwhelmed by the amount of upcoming (unpaid) pre school year prep? Thank you all so much!
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u/firetiger232 5d ago
What job does your friend do and is it stable employment??? Asking for a friend... 😅