a day of rejoicing

I forget, are you teaching or taking a class?

@spiderdust I teach psychology at Diablo Valley College. That's the one job I've had the longest. The stuff with "troubled" (and more recently supposedly non-troubled) kids has involved several different organizations.

@TheHorse I used to know people at Diablo Valley, but it's been about a decade. I'm sure they've moved on to other things by now.

@spiderdust It is crazy to expect a teacher to keep moving from one grade level to another. You can never master the curriculum or your lessons. I can do mine on auto-pilot after so many years.

@NJChicaa I know while we've been there, she's done 4th grade, then a 3rd/4th classroom, then 1st grade, then a 1st/2nd grade classroom, and finally gets to repeat 1st/2nd again.

I will be sad for you too. I hope this year turns out better for you than it's starting out. I found out that my youngest stepson's teacher hasn't taught the same grade level for the past 12 years -- until this year. She's had to change her curriculum every school year and has had no continuity. Apparently this year during their teachers' meeting, she said that she couldn't keep changing everything every year and that someone else needed to step up. I'm kinda glad she did, because it's why a spot opened up at the school for the stepson (they created another 2nd grade class).

@spiderdust The more the kids, the more the word sounds "magic".

It never was quite so magic before this year.