Kathy Mullin

Teacher/Wife/Mother/Reader "In the end, we all become stories." Margaret Atwood 💜 #TheBloggessTribe

[Phiona Kyeru @kyeruphiona]

A coworker died yesterday morning😭.
​HR knew by 9 :00 AM, but they kept us working all day. They finally told us around 4 :30 PM, then had the nerve to say, "You can head home early if you need to"—knowing we all finish at 5: 00 PM anyway.
​This morning, it’s back to "business as usual." Some of my friends are literally sobbing at their desks, but they’re expected to work and be productive. No time to grieve.
​It’s a cold reality. Within a week, the company will have his job posted online. Within a month, someone else will be sitting in his chair.
​But his family ,his children will still talk about him every day,they will ask where is daddy , His wife will mourn him for ages ,he was the love of her life .
​At work, we are just a "resource" that can be replaced in a week. At home, we are the world. Stop giving your best energy to a desk that will forget you, and giving the "leftovers" to the people who never will.

[Kathy Mullin @kmullin]

@CapelLofft Sometimes we would go to the quiet area if my brothers were being really loud, but that was rare. Kids learn how to behave by being out. A church where people don’t bring their children is wild to me. And one where they sit silently? How? I’m sorry.

[Kathy Mullin @kmullin]

@CapelLofft I’m Catholic and my parents tried to keep all of us quiet. Impossible. Families were large and all at church. A priest once said that the sound of children in church was a blessing, God’s love. Children should be in church and they can’t be quiet. I don’t understand your church.

[Kathy Mullin @kmullin]

@EndercrowDude @kaekaecurtis @buttforager We’re in Iowa. I’m retired, but my daughter has a list that has to be checked before she can teach anything, or have books in her classroom. We went from super progressive in education to stifled. I taught so many things that I could never teach now.

[Kathy Mullin @kmullin]

@kaekaecurtis @buttforager I’m not sure what state you’re in, but many of the books that were taught even two years ago are now banned. So some are teaching excerpts so kids are exposed to parts of classics and then teaching full novels that are approved. Truly awful. Also, so much testing K-12. So. Much.

[MP Girls T&F and XC @MPCHS_Girls_TF]

Quintrie Lee punches her ticket to State with a new season best!

[Kathy Mullin @kmullin]

@adversewitness @heymrsbond I don’t think she means it’s giving the test, it’s the teaching to the test. My state used to rank 8th in the US. Now 21st, changed to the teach to the test method, short passages, online readings, fewer novels, a lot of things making it hard to teach and learn.

[Kathy Mullin @kmullin]

@notcapnamerica Sorry, I don’t know how that sent to you. Just phone us being weird

[Kathy Mullin @kmullin]

@heymrsbond Mine started doing that after I had covid. It happened when the pollen count was high. Nothing really helped. I used Benadryl and lavender oil mixed with a carrier oil. They gave me steroids, but it didn’t help. It happens 2-4 times a yr now 🙃

[Kathy Mullin @kmullin]

@MagAndy87578218 @LizWFab This, I taught in a K-12 building and also taught a college composition class. My kids knew better than to say they didn’t know. They had been taught since elementary. They don’t pay attention or others proofread. Whatever. At big mtgs, hs teachers aren’t doing their jobs.

[Kathy Mullin @kmullin]

@ThatAmyMiller @clhubes Then I slur the words and sound drunk 🙄. Super cool.

[Kathy Mullin @kmullin]

@clhubes This, my neck will hurt, eyes water, vision get blurry, and if I don’t take meds and lay down, puke fest it is and I’m done for days. It’s not a headache. And I don’t feel pain normally, so I don’t notice it’s there, until it’s THERE! 😒

[Kathy Mullin @kmullin]

@MrsMoricz @heymrsbond This! Then, after they tried to fire me and the community rallied, he stopped telling me how great I was and not to work when I was home sick. But I was still supposed to send lesson plans and kids messaged. No compensation ever.

[Kathy Mullin @kmullin]

@heymrsbond It was mine, when my girls were born, my dad died, I broke my eye socket, had covid twice, horrible migraines. Now I can’t work at all and they didn’t renew my contract after 28 yrs, even though I planned snd graded and messaged every day I was home sick. Which was a lot. 0 pay

[Kathy Mullin @kmullin]

@heymrsbond I’ve been to several student funerals and it does break you. Other kids asked me if I would be there and it was a small school system. It’s awful.

[Kathy Mullin @kmullin]

@blacklionking73 Native Son and Johnny Got His Gun.

[Kathy Mullin @kmullin]

@Lucy_Webster_ I don’t know where you live, but we have them on the shelf in the state I’m in. I would gladly ship some to you. They aren’t covered in paper, if you need that, but they are the single use bendy straws. If you dm me, I’ll get them to you.

[Kathy Mullin @kmullin]

@gldivittorio I don’t have cancer, but I’ve been sick for 3 years. I’m 50. My doctors are always shocked that my husband is supportive and kind and helpful. And women will deny it happens until they are left alone and too sick to do anything. I know I’m lucky. But it shouldn’t be luck.

[Kathy Mullin @kmullin]

@professorjon @heymrsbond I wish I would have done that. I used my fountain pens to write in my students’ journals. I’ve been ill and haven’t taught for three years and I really wish I could look back. Also, fountain pens are joyful.

[Kathy Mullin @kmullin]

@krismicinski @_samantha_joy @Indian_Bronson I wasn’t talking about a single child. I was talking about our state mandated curriculum also. That they are expected to read by the end of kindergarten. That may have been in a dif thread. Clearly all children are dif. The presentation is the problem, in many cases.