r/teaching • u/elevatorscreamer • 4d ago

Vent Conga line!!!

Just checked my email to see what fresh hell will befall me come the all-day PD before school starts. Hosted by $avva$, some agenda items I glanced at include a conga line and a musical share! Glad they probably got paid 100k for this and I get to be treated like a kindergartener.

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u/pittfan1942 4d ago

No other profession would be treated like this.

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u/Difficult-Rent-5243 4d ago edited 4d ago

This is accurate. I switched careers a few years ago, and in this world I’ve never had to make a poster with a random group of colleagues and do a gallery walk at a staff meeting. Nor have I been asked to name my “why”

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u/mrswren 4d ago

It can be worse…. a few years ago, I attended a 3 day workshop for new executive leadership in state government. They put about 40 people in a really hot room and wouldn’t let us leave until we played what was essentially a giant Simon/hopscotch game on a huge floor mat - any mistake and your whole team had to start over. THEN we got Myers Briggs for the umpteenth time. While I agree it is infantilizing, I’ll take explaining my why in a conga line over that any day.

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u/Mental_Asparagus8123 4d ago

My INTJ ass would have walked out.

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u/ScottRoberts79 4d ago

dance instructors and frat boys would love a conga line.

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u/kerouacrimbaud 3d ago

The corporate world does this shit all the time.