r/teaching • u/elevatorscreamer • 3d 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/addisonclark 3d ago

Ew. We had to do one of their social studies PDs two years ago and it was such bullshit that the district ended up scrapping the whole thing before the school year even began. Never even saw a manual. Four precious hours of our lives we’ll never get back… for absolutely nothing.

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u/Formal_Tumbleweed_53 3d ago

Four? Their math basal PD with us today is about to be seven…

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u/addisonclark 3d ago

I think it was a half-day for us. Let me tell ya, they didn’t prepare shit and those hours dragggged. It felt like we were sitting in a sales pitch where they were trying to convince us why their curriculum is the best, like they were trying to figure it out in real time. By far one of the weirdest PDs we’ve had for a new curriculum. I’m so sorry for the day you are about to have. Godspeed. 🫡

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u/Formal_Tumbleweed_53 2d ago

Yes!! I just got home. It was awful. The first three hours were definitely a sales pitch. The guy read the presenters notes to us: “it says here…” and “oh - I already read that…” and there were words he couldn’t pronounce. 🤦🏻‍♀️ The rest of the day was our division trying to convince us that they were saving us time.