I decided to revive this occasional education education thread. I imagine I’ll do this once a month, but anyone who wants can put up a discussion,  can and should-  just tag it as “Dark Sarcasm in the Classroom” and “education.”

So in the aftermath of the Parkland, FL shooting ( the one people are talking about – there have been like 10 this year and it’s only March), there has been an awful lot of bullshit discussion aout arming teachers, “active shooter drills” that terrify staff and students, and general political nonsense.  The silver lining is that those kids in Parkland aren’t shutting up and calling out the  “grown ups.”

Also, every single teacher in  the state of West Virginia went on strike for 8 days. After arranging for care and food for students in their communities, I might add. And without union support, because the union can’t legally strike there.  They wanted a 5% pay raise and for their health insurance to not be ridiculous. They got the pay raise,  it’s now a whopping $36,000 for a new teacher which works out to be about $17 / hour for a 40 hour work week. (narrator: it’s more than a 40 hour work week)

In the middle of all this, a lot of Avocados who are teachers, school staff.  parents, and friends and family of teachers and parents  and school staff have been discussing what it’s really like in the school, and, wy say arming teachers is such stupid idea.  This is the discussion I mean to have today. What goes on in a classroom in between active shooter drills?  How much paperwork is  there, really? How early do you get up? How late do you work?  ow much homework does kid have? Does your school have requirements that seem wrong/ redundant/ ill advised?

<b> What is it really like at school? </b>

Do tell.