Oh my goodness
So today my assistant principal called me about a meeting tomorrow and included something about how my classroom has been gutted in order to put in new cabinets. After some denial since I was never notified about any of this I visited my classroom today to see the destruction myself. I am astounded. My classroom had cabinets covering three sides and they are indeed gone. I was going in tomorrow to run off copies and set everything up for the new year. Today I saw that half of my stuff is sitting in a pile in the middle of my room and the other half is in boxes in the other science teacher's room. I can't find anything. My storage room has also been gutted so that is all in another room as well. I don't think this is going to work out the way that I thought it was going to. I asked the workers today when they will be done and they said by Saturday. I am not holding out too much hope that anyone in constuction will get done on time but even if they did, my students arrive on Tuesday. Even if they finish on Saturday my stuff will still be sitting in a pile in the middle of my room and in boxes in another room. Sunday I am busy most of the day and Monday we have a staff meeting for half the day and the other half I have Micah. I am beginning to think that the first day of school will be having students help me move back into my classroom because I just don't have the time.
My other issue with this whole thing is how lame school districts spend money. No one ever asked us if we need new cabinets. Mine were great except for one wall in one place. The storage room cabinets were great. And they were old cabinets. Has anyone ever noticed that old stuff seems to always work better? We used to buy quality stuff. My cabinets would have lasted another 20 or 30 years. Now 'a days the district gets bids and then go with the lowest bidder. Do you know what that means? We get the cheapest, crappiest stuff. Our copy machine was almost broken more than it worked last year. Our air conditioning and heating units have a guy at our school almost daily fixing them. At Gunderson where I worked years ago they put in a new science room and the knobs were falling off after the first month. I am really hoping that my old but quality cabinets that worked great are not going to be replaced by crap. It is bad enough that they already wasted so much money replacing stuff that didn't need to be replaced but if I get something worse I think I will cry.
My other issue with this whole thing is how lame school districts spend money. No one ever asked us if we need new cabinets. Mine were great except for one wall in one place. The storage room cabinets were great. And they were old cabinets. Has anyone ever noticed that old stuff seems to always work better? We used to buy quality stuff. My cabinets would have lasted another 20 or 30 years. Now 'a days the district gets bids and then go with the lowest bidder. Do you know what that means? We get the cheapest, crappiest stuff. Our copy machine was almost broken more than it worked last year. Our air conditioning and heating units have a guy at our school almost daily fixing them. At Gunderson where I worked years ago they put in a new science room and the knobs were falling off after the first month. I am really hoping that my old but quality cabinets that worked great are not going to be replaced by crap. It is bad enough that they already wasted so much money replacing stuff that didn't need to be replaced but if I get something worse I think I will cry.
posted by Wendy at 2:52 PM
7 Comments:
wow that really sucks. and the timing doesn't sound like it could be too much worse. I wonder why they are doing that right now? that's weird. I wonder if you could ask to have the other ones put back instead.
Wendy, I can relate but thankfully have never had to wait until the day the students arrived...mine was the day of our open house, in a portable, with furniture arriving an hour before the parents. That was tight enough! I can't imagine the day school starts! Hang in there.
Oh my word, that makes me sick! I don't know exactly how you feel, but I definitely know what it's like to have no time to put your room together. That really, really sucks. Stupid school districts.
Dang that sucks! Sarah is saying my exact thoughts. Why now? How stupid is the administration at your school district?
And who cares about what cabinets look like in a storage room if they still work just fine. How frustrating!
How sad...........What a pain for you to have to deal with this right before school starts. I'd be really upset too!
typical school districts
Sounds like you are really frustrated. Hope everything works out. Not sure why they would start a project so close to the beginning of school like that
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