Oh, by the way, she is absent again.  AGAIN??? you say?  How can she be absent when she is out of sick days, personal days and emergency days?  Does she know she is going to have to pay the district for her absent time if she doesn't cut it out?  Does she realize that non-paid days doesn't mean non-paid benefit day?  They will continue to take insurance and benefits out even if she is not being paid for that day.  But they will take the entire amount of pay for the day.  So, in essence, she will owe the district for that day instead of them owing her.  If she takes too many days off unpaid, they will actually have to bill her for the benefits.  This has happened before.  Plus, she told everyone that the district forgot when they changed her from long-term sub to contract teacher and she has to pay the district $400 per pay check until the end of the year.  How can she do that if she is not getting paid?

What brought this on?  Well, she missed our 4th grade professional day yesterday and is absent again today.  Does she not think these work days are important?  It totally put a crimp in our discussions and planning because she wasn't there.  She will of course complain when she comes back because she wasn't there and we had to make (dictated) decisions without her.

Let me just say...I AM SICK OF MY TEAM!!!!  I was the only one who sat in the room all day and worked on the information we were supposed to do.  The others went wandering around and spent hours at the copy machine making copies for next week came in late in the first place and took LONG lunches.  That is not what we were supposed to do.  When it was time to copy some new material for our data books, one teacher asked me if I would make her copies too.  I said, "NO!"  I was not going to stand at the machine making copies for everyone and then having to separate them.  Not on your life.  If they want copies, they should have stayed in the room and found out what they were supposed to do.  Our male (married) teacher was out in the hall flirting with a single teacher.  Monkey Poop was absent.  I want a new team.

I wonder if she knows she probably won't be back at this school next year?  I know this is jumbled up but I am in a hurry and my words are falling out of my brain too fast.