I'm Just Going to Vent

Here are the things that are going on in our school right now:

1. We have conferences next week that I STILL need to prepare for

2. We are being retrofitted which means that various items are being taken out of my room, and new things are being brought in. Friday, I have to turn in my laptop, and Monday I'll get a new one, so sometime between now and then, I have to move everything off of this one and onto the server. Plus, we have new printers and desktops coming too. While this is all nice, it's a huge upheaval in our rooms.

3. My room is being painted as I type. What does that mean? Friday, instead of having a fun Halloween party with my kids, I had to take everything off of the walls. That afternoon consisted of me climbing up and down on stuff interspersed with my frustration with my children as they kept wrestling on the floor. Plus, much of the stuff I had up on the wall was what I had made. When I took it down, it ripped, so I have to make it new. My word wall alone took me a week to get up. I have to cut out all new letters and glue them back up and make new words to put up as well. Then, today, instead of math, I had to move all of the furniture four feet away from the wall. If you've ever been in an elementary classroom, you can only imagine how much stuff that was. Plus, there wasn't really a math lesson. And tomorrow, I'll have to be in before 7 am to move everything back before my kids come. It could be worse. The people who are having their rooms painted Friday or Saturday were pretty much told they needed to come in on Sunday to move their stuff back. Also, I won't be able to put anything up for two weeks, so my room is going to look like a dungeon for conferences. That should make a great impression.

It's just so frustrating since it seems like every time I turn around, it's something else we have to do. I realize much of it is coming from the county, and my principal really has no say, but that doesn't make it any easier.