Let's talk burnout! Is anybody else already feeling it? I am feeling like the summer flew by in a second without providing any sort of stress relief or reprieve from last year.

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I second that statement!
Make times for yourself and come up with a list of what you want to accomplish. Don't let anything get in the way. We, as teachers, need to manage our time wisely and productively. Otherwise, so many things can creep in our schedule. It doesn’t have to be extravagantly or fancy. Take a walk, go for a run, go to the museum and take pictures to make up for it.

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I never managed to destress this summer. Woke up all summer with a sore jaw and a headache from clenching my teeth all night.

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MP - I’m convinced my brain takes it as a challenge to bite down harder.

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Yes… Agreed! We got out to n 6/21, and our return is this Thursday for 8/26. So much to do and not enough rest time, or get any home stuff done.

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We got out 6/23 and went back 8/10 😭 😭 😭 it felt way too soon to be walking back in the door of that building

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Absolutely. As soon as my wife is hired back to her job I am out. Nothing changed. Teachers have become even bigger villains than before. Life is too short to be this unhappy. And that’s after 20 years of teaching.

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I hear ya. I hate to say it but if I didn’t have to keep my job, I don’t know if I would.

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I did nothing all summer after moving the last week of school. Now I’m running at 100mph.

There is so much more to do. I’m a classroom teacher in a new grade, a coordinator, a pet mom, etc. Its just too much.

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I was, but today was my first day with students and I think it's gonna be okay.
They won't admit it, but they are happy to be back.
I can do a great job when most students want to be there.
I hate to say it and jinx it, but I am hopeful for the first time in a while.

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To follow up, I'm still optimistic after 4 days.
I won't be easy, the learning loss is real, but it's gonna be okay.

Absolutely. I'm not sure why it surprised me that I'm not over it.

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vms2 SAME!!! Low test scores DURING A PANDEMIC with high virtual numbers for either part or all of the year means that teachers need extra meetings and more structure and less time to do their job 😭

My summer was so much better this year. My mom passed in April, so i missed her, but it was a lot better because i could walk. The previous school year i fell and couldn’t put any weight on either foot for 3 weeks. Even as we went back to work i could barely walk.

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Many of the teachers I work with are already over it. So many are ready to walk out. We are burnt out before we got started good.

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My whole team is experiencing burnout. I will say it does feel good to be back with students in person, but the mass exodus of students in quarantine has already started and it is making my “burnout” worse. I love teaching. I’m distraught that I’ve become one of “those” teachers. The last 2 years have really been difficult for our profession.

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I was burned out the minute I walked into my classroom and found it a mess.

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So relate. They did construction before we left. Then after my principal told me what to put away, she came in and packed half of what was out (which she said was fine to be left) and it went into storage. Then I had to change grades so I had entirely new curriculum to set up and old curriculum to remove. This is not to mention that when left at first we first to do an emergency packing which meant we just shoved anything and everything into any cabinet and closet that shut. My classroom still looks alike a tornado hit it. It old my students on the first day of school that I purposely didn’t decorate it because I wanted us to decorate it together.

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I feel the exact same way. I also feel like our district (DC Public Schools) is totally fine deaf by rolling out this new programming and raising the expectations without providing the proper support. Unfortunately, it’s making me prepare to leave at the end of the school year.

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I work in the kitchen. We worked most of them summer during summer school. We had 3 weeks off, and I'm glad to be back.

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I’m already done and the school year didn’t even begin yet!!!😂😂😂

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NYHS 1 Agreed !! Kids come tomorrow…

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I taught summer school this year (we don't usually offer it), so my summer break started on 7/31. I am really not ready to go back.

I am ok, I refused to work this summer, so piddling around the house and yard was just fun or just doing nothing on some days. I have a 14 year old who went to basketball camp all summer! So I am up for a little challenge as long as it doesn’t come all at one time. 🤣

We report Thursday and our students report the Wednesday after Labor Day

There was no transition. So I created a buffer of fluffy content for the beginning of the year. That way neither I or my students are stressed as we ease into the year.

DC High School, you couldn’t have said it better!

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