Wendy Bass

Mom | Math teacher | Spirit of a 12 year old, wisdom of many more | Some say I’m a bleeding heart liberal. I prefer to believe everyone has a story to tell.

[Wendy Bass @BassAction89]

“Just make sure you know where the healing ends and the delaying begins.”

[Wendy Bass @BassAction89]

Nothing makes me feel better about my medical situation than knowing I have an insurance provider, instead of my doctor, to know the best way to treat my disease/diagnosis . #sarcasm
Looking at you @UHC 🤦🏻‍♀️🙄

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@PathwayToFI @RussJowell Exactly! My son just got an RA position and a merit scholarship on top of that, so a big chunk of his account won’t be needed for his undergraduate degree and he likely won’t need grad school. (And he’s my youngest so I don’t need it for another child.)

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@DaStreamCatcher @MadScientistFF Came here for this. It’s the only video game I’ve ever really enjoyed.

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@rhutchpierce Yes! Pick the day and time and I’m there!

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@MadScientistFF Wendy.

My best friend and so have had 150 students/year for the last 23 years and never once have had a Wendy in class.

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If someone could offer a PD course in mind reading, it might just allow teachers to do all things everyone seems to think we’re supposed to be able to do.

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@DingleTeach Ditto all the math teacher replies here.

Interestingly, every clock in my school at the last is still analog.

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@rhutchpierce She looks just like her big brother! 😊❤️

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@eschy12 We refer to it as “borrow and payback”. I’ll help a kid who already knows it, but I never teach it.

Like life, the kids remember to “borrow” (move the coefficient), but regularly forget to “payback” (divide at the end).

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Ditto for student teaching… full time tuition to work full time without any pay for the entire semester.

[Dr. Beau, DO (she/her) @Zoe_Beausoleil]

So med schools charge full tuition for 4th year but don’t provide any education.

I have a rotation I would like to apply to but it costs $550. My school, the one I’m paying tuition to, doesn’t help with the cost of rotations even though that’s how I’m being educated 🤔

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Seriously, @VancityReynolds is a national treasure. How is he always so fabulous?

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Never feeling good enough. Pressure from admin, parents, & Ss to be perfect in every convo, email, & lesson is relentless & exhausting. Tchrs don’t get to have “bad days.” We’re supposed to be everything to everyone leaving zero room to be a person with my own feelings and life.

[Julia's #STEAMing up Learning! @GiftedTawk]

Teachers: What are some of the most challenging aspects of your work that aren’t apparent to others outside of our profession? How do you manage these challenges and what kind of support would be helpful in addressing them effectively?

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@sage_stage Yeah. I was just told today that a kid form my other class regularly hates on me… because I emailed home to his parents… because his grades started dropping… because he never does homework.

I liked at the kids telling me and said, “yeah. I’m ok with that” and moved on.

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@GrifJenna I hope that’s a good one for you because life is hard and a B+ is pretty good. I’d definitely take a B+

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@gbosslet 51 here and I started watching with closed captioning when I was watching shows with strong accents and now I just really like it.

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@Kimmer4444 @barstoolindy FYI (I teach math here) the cafe is not publicly funded. The DECA program started it as a small “walk up window” during lunch. They made enough money to carve out a space and build and design the current location. The students did and do all the leg work for it.

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@ericzhu @dylan5160 Ummm… a year of life and experiences with my loved ones is a pretty heavy tax in my opinion.

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@dylan5160 I think it’s easier at your age to think a year would be with the trade.

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@dylan5160 Oops, forgot to say why.

At 51, I’ve been lucky enough to be able to support myself and my family and enjoy some good adventures with them. No amount of money would be worth giving up time and experiences with them. Especially since most of the fun we have costs very little.

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@dylan5160 Zero.