She's just keeping track of the days until retirement. She teaches at a catholic school. With all the monies from the prosecutions, etc., they've taken away from the schools. This year, she didn't even get the usual small (too small!) stipend to buy school supplies. We helped her via Facebook/Amazon to get her classroom ready. She's taught at this school since she graduated college. You think there'd be a little merit and respect. But all she gets is more responsibility without any corresponding remuneration of any type at all. At my worst in contracting, I made more than she did. It's just not fair, she worked all the time -- at school, in nearly all her "free" time hours. She was lucky if she managed to get 6-8 hours of sleep, get up, commute an hour to school, and do it all over again. And of course, for her, there were all the added responsibilities of teaching religion classes, the masses, getting ready for first communions, etc. And, as the one with most seniority, it all fell on her.
The worst, IMO, tho, is that as the society has coarsened, a lot of the kids that have been kicked out of public schools for behavior problems, have found their way into her school system... and into her classes, in particular. This year she had 7. All 7 had records for behavior issues that went beyond fighting. A few were school arson issues. All of them had records for burglary. 2 were charged in off campus killings of some kind. She's suppose to teach 6th and 7th graders with these disrupters in the classroom. Meanwhile, I worry for *her* safety.
I'll be so relieved when she's done, I'm going to give a party for her retirement!
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