Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
VERY frustrated!
The one class I teach I called 3 parents because their kids were misbehaving in class and/or not doing their work. I find out one failed both 7th grade and 8th grade and is now in my 8th grade class for the second time. Plus he has aspergers. This means he shouldn't even be in my class! I have no other adults working with me and I'm ONLY there for that class. How am I supposed to give this student the help he needs when I'm never available for him outside of class. It's SO frustrating to see administration that doesn't care.
That lead me to go back to school to pursue my PhD. I'm taking a course right now and I need to watch a video and take a quiz before noon Thursday. I have Open House tomorrow night and another thing planned Wednesday so this is my only time to do it. Of course, I can't even get on the website right now to watch the video or take the quiz. I've been trying for the last hour to access the site. I was on it yesterday for almost 5 hours doing work and I can even open it tonight.
UUUUUGGGHHHH!
Re: VERY frustrated!
Ditto TwoTrue. I think you are smart to explore other options. I am sorry your year is so hectic.
ditto!
Thanks ladies. I appreciate knowing that I'm not the only one who feels this way.
Update: I met with both principals at the one school with the student I'm concerned about. They are willing to change his schedule but think it's too early to do that in the school year. They want to wait it out. They feel that he's not going to do anything for ANYONE, not just me. Basically, the kids going to fall flat on his face and the one thing I tried to do to help him isn't going to be enough. Plus, I felt like I was being blackmailed at the meeting. I kept hearing "it's not a good idea to tell parents that you are not available for their kids. It wouldn't make the school look good." It made me feel like if I told the parents the truth that I would lose my job (which I can't afford to do of course). I feel silly saying that their kid has to go to another teacher for extra help during their study hall being I'm teaching at another school.
Also, I was finally able to sign in on the website for class but I couldn't view the video still. I think I can watch it on my computer at work and I plan on doing that this afternoon before Open House tonight. I also couldn't sign in to take a quiz, I finally got an email today about that. Because my email was too long, it didn't take to the website so I couldn't sign in to view the quiz. They created an email for me (yet another one I need to check now, ugh. How frustrating!