Stephanie

Math teacher, foster parent. #MTBoS

[Stephanie @melomania]

Ok I know I’ve been off Twitter for YEARS but I am at #NCTMCHI24 and I KNOW I have friends here, so come by and see me at booth 927!!!

[Stephanie @melomania]

I posted on my personal Twitter account that I didn’t like doing test corrections and got a bunch of helpful suggestions to improve my process.

[Rach @RachaelvsWorld]

what’s the dumbest thing you got in trouble at school for?

[Stephanie @melomania]

“If you don’t like it, then leave” = I went on a trip with 4 people from my company a couple weeks ago and THREE of us had left teaching in the last year.

[Valerie Writing a Tell-All 😜 @MsPinkBehavior]

Now is NOT the time for school admin to have the “If you don’t like it, then leave” attitude toward teachers.

First, are y’all hiding a surplus of teachers somewhere?

Second, the job market has plenty of openings in and out of ed.

Last, not least, ✌️.

#teachertwitter

[Stephanie @melomania]

When you leave teaching, everyone asks “but won’t you miss having summers off?”

No. I couldn’t care less about the summer. Doesn’t bother me at all.

Now WINTER break on the other hand…I have to WORK when it’s CHRISTMAS???

Bullshit.

[Stephanie @melomania]

Free book idea:
“Impotently Furious: The Story of Foster Care”

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Hmm.

Hey @mistercarwash your “cancel membership” button doesn’t do anything when I click on it!

Fun fact: it’s also not a hyperlink!

Kinda shady, honestly…

[Stephanie @melomania]

My family has never experienced disenfranchisement based on our social class or skin color, and it shows.

So yes, excellent credit score, go me.

Thank you to my white parents and grandparents (and especially my mom who “married up” 😂).

[Stephanie @melomania]

Email from credit tracking: “Your hard work has paid off and your credit score has increased!”

That’s bullshit. There’s no “hard work” there. It’s just waiting until things drop off the record, making payments on time, and maybe applying for a new line of credit.

[Stephanie @melomania]

Go back a little further and you’ll see the REAL foundation for my excellent credit score is that I was born white, middle-class, to parents who had enough money and whose own family backgrounds meant they knew how to handle it.

[Stephanie @melomania]

So…next week is Thanksgiving?

That doesn’t feel right.

[Stephanie @melomania]

“As one of the great philosophers of our age would say, they were ‘staring directly at the sun but never in the mirror’.”
- My pastor, during his sermon yesterday

[Stephanie @melomania]

Walking around my house with all the windows open going “it’s so cold 😍😍😍😍😍😍”

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Geez.

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[Stephanie @melomania]

Education conference: attending sessions, talking about teaching, brain totally fried by 3pm.

Tech conference: no sessions, hanging out with the Events and HR and Operations women, going to all the evening social events.

[Stephanie @melomania]

Ugh I knew I was going to regret that Coke at 2pm. Yes, I was super professional and knew what I was talking about during the meeting with my boss’s boss’s boss but now it’s 1:30am and I’m not even tired so…

[Stephanie @melomania]

It’s hilarious to me that they give 30 min to board a 737 and they also give 30 min to board an Embraer regional jet that holds 50 people. Like…we’re all on board and it took 8 minutes.

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I need to talk to someone on the phone so I’ll put my clean laundry away.

…is maybe the most ADHD thing I’ve ever said out loud.

[Stephanie @melomania]

Have you heard of “this meeting should have been an email”?

Well get ready for “this email chain should have been a slack channel”!!!

[Stephanie @melomania]

Like a walking stereotype for older white guy.

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Picking up Uber deliveries from a noodle restaurant and the guy in front of me is annoyed the cashier doesn’t speak English.

Sir, if you wanted Panda Express you could have gone there.

[Stephanie @melomania]

Now he and his wife are sitting down still muttering about people who speak other languages and making phone calls on speaker phone. His phone has the loudest ringtone known to mankind. This restaurant is empty.