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I deactivated my Facebook a couple weeks ago. I deleted most of my pictures off of Insta. Today is my birthday. I know I will not receive any messages. The only people who know my b-day without FB reminders are no longer really my friends. I hurt them too much. I didn't call back. I left messages on "seen." I wouldn't send Christmas cards or timely birthday messages. Too many broken promises. Too many times where I chose to stay home or cancelled plans. I was too weird too often.

Some cut all ties and told me how I hurt them. Others just drifted off and I let them. Every time, it is the same story. I am friendly and energetic. They think I am weird but interesting. I am engaging, s

Really just a vent/rant because I am tired. I switched schools mid-year. I am now teaching senior level English. It has only been a month. Is expecting them to have read around 30 pages of our class text in the last 3 weeks and complete about 2-3 activities a day when in person and 1 activity when on distance learning too much work for a senior?

We are in-person, and I was warned the seniors were rather done with all of the Covid stuff and were fairly apathetic about work. Most seniors are fairly apathetic about school work, but I thought I had it worked out. I kept most things the same as the teacher before me except I take off points if things are late because what is the point of

I have lived in California my whole life except for a few brief years teaching overseas. I have been needing a change in my life. I thought it would be interesting to move to the east. My credential is in single-subject English. I have been thinking about trying Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont. Are there any teachers on here who can tell me what teaching in any of those states is like? Admin support? Unions? Pay? School year timeline? school culture? etc.

I had a mild sore throat yesterday. As the day wore on, it got worse. By that night my head hurt, my muscles hurt, my ear hurt, and in general I felt like general crap. I kept obsessively checking my temp to see if I had a fever, because that would feel more justified in calling out, but alas I do not have a fever.

This might just be some other random illness, or it could be covid. Even if it is not covid, I am sick; it should be okay to take a sick day and not feel like scum for doing so. But, I do; I feel like a traitor and scum for taking a sick day today. We have been face-to-face since the beginning of the year. There are not any subs. This is also the 3rd time this semester that I h

Note: I originally posted this in r/Teacher but it was suggested by a commentator that I post it here to get more ADHD specific advice.

I am a fairly new teacher. This is the beginning of my 3rd year. As a teacher with ADHD, I find that my emotional imbalance and rejection sensitivity is off the charts. These last 2 years, have been some of the most emotionally draining years of my life. School was less than pleasant for me. I sometimes question why I even became a teacher. At first it was because I didn't know what else to do with a degree in English when I hated writing, but then I discovered that I love kids and helping them learn. As much as I love the kids, the rest of what makes up

EDIT: Title really should be "Teacher with ADHD and Dealing with Emotional Irregularity and Impostor Syndrome." It's not really about my students' emotions.

I am a fairly new teacher. This is the beginning of my 3rd year. As a teacher with ADHD, I find that my emotional imbalance and rejection sensitivity is off the charts. These last 2 years, have been some of the most emotionally draining years of my life. School was less than pleasant for me. I sometimes question why I even became a teacher. At first it was because I didn't know what else to do with a degree in English when I hated writing, but then I discovered that I love kids and helping them learn. As much as I love the kids, the res

TLDR: I need one more year to clear my credential, and I don't know if I will last. I'm in my 30's and this is the most stressful, all consuming thing I have ever done. I am a people-pleaser and capitulate too much to my students and editors. I don't know how to establish authority and for my Yearbook students to have confidence in me.

S0, this is my first year teaching. I was fortunate to long term sub for this same school last fall and continued in the same classroom for my student teaching that following spring. Now, I am almost done with my first official year as a teacher. One of the things that got me my job was that I knew the Yearbook adviser was stepping down, and I mentioned I

I am long-term subbing this semester. I was going to be doing my student teaching, but my district needed last minute subs, so they called in student teachers. This semester has seriously had me reconsidering being a high school English teacher.

I love the teaching aspect, most of the time, but I hate the endless paperwork, 12-14 hour days, no weekends, angry parents, CPS calls, strict behavior codes, etc.

As for curriculum that a lot of teachers complain about, I agree with the idea of common core, but what would really help some of my classes, especially my basic juniors, would be learning how to write a resume, understanding legalese, critical thinking, etc. not some of the esot