I have certainly been busy.

Public school teaching is rough, especially in Brooklyn.

I work in a school that spends no money on supplies.  I literally have to buy all my paper.  Even thug the testing pressure is on, the school would NOT purchase new cardboard partitions for my students even though the old ones are full of graffiti!  (Boys like to draw pictures of their boy parts on them.) So, message received loud and clear:  you don't matter.

Much else goes on there that is annoying.

First, it's a "do as I say, not as I do" school.  For example, my boss tells me I talk too much to the students.  Yet, when she holds a 25 minute pep rally, we're there for an hour -- guess who does all the talking?
Second, my boss claims my classroom timing is off.  Yet, when the literacy coach enters the room, she instructs the kids the same way I do.  Timing is VERY difficult to manage when you have students who are so academically challenged.  They can barely get their pencils on the desk in a timely manner.  If I hurry them along, all I get is attitude.  So, yeah, my timing is off.  But read what is listed under first again.
Third, I am told to read the morning announcements.  However, in order for me to read them, I need to be invited to them by an administrator.  When I ask the administrators to invite me in, they pass me to someone else to do it.  Hmmm....you know what I think.
Finally (for today), we use programs at the school that do NOT work.  It's obvious they don't work because if they did, I wouldn't have 7th grade students with a 1st grade reading ability.  You want me to read the data but when I do, I cannot do anything with my findings.

Ugh...off to bed to rest up for another day of crazy.