Re: Just Venting

[glassmaid <glassmaid@JOBE.NET>]

 Dear Julia,

    I was out of the building yesterday and they didn't get a sub for the
Morning.  Three classes arrived at once to check out and the Principal had to
step in and check out. He also had to get a teacher a new VCR Because a tape got
stuck.  Just because classes are not scheduled that doesn't mean I am not
working.

Victoria Rubottom
East Elementary
Waynesville , Mo.
glassmaid@jobe.net

Julia Steger wrote:

> The content of the message about having to teach reading, including the bit
> about the teacher who cheered, really gets on my last nerve, as they say
> here.  Maybe some of us have wonderfully flexible schedules in elementary,
> but there are others among us who continue to be seen as purely planning
> time providers-- and any time without a class is up for grabs for extra
> duties to be assigned, and teachers harp and complain make snide comments
> and believe the job we do is "easy".
>
> I was recently at a conference and listened to a  highly-educated speaker,
> with many years of library experience,  enthuse about advocacy and about
> effective collaboration in the upper grades between librarian and teachers.
> When I suggested that some advocacy needs to be done for the elementary
> folks who are under such stress and are asked to meet so many demands and
> sometimes treated unprofessionally, and that if we were treated as more than
> planning time and given time to collaborate, she would see REAL performance
> improvement in the students we elementary people send on, the speaker looked
> as though a completely new, unheard of light bulb had just come on in her
> brain.
>
> Why?why?why? does elementary school librarianship CONTINUE to drag on this
> way?  I am transferring to a middle school next year and the person who
> takes my job will have 6-8 classes a day, 5 days a week in a new school of
> 650 students.
> A treadmill existence.  One clever person on this listserv described it as
> the Death March.
>
> I have been so fortunate to have principals who gave me as much flex time as
> they were able to, so I am not complaining about my own experience, believe
> me.  I just feel so badly for the people on this listserv who are treated
> the way the aforementioned writer is being treated and I expect it would
> take a national revolt of some kind to ever change things.
>
> Just venting,
> Julia Steger, Librarian, Clifton Forge Elem E&W, Clifton Forge VA
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