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Update #57: I have decided to leave full-time public school teaching
By Sammy Ginsberg It’s been a long time coming. I resigned from full-time teaching because I burnt out. I went on medical leave twice that year from burn out, and I just needed it to be over. I didn’t really have a plan of what to do next, I just knew that what I was…
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Update #53: Tired of Being Disrespected
By Sammy Ginsberg I am feeling so burnt out. Today, I lost it in Period 5. I feel my boundaries are being violated and my nervous system and needs are not being met, and I’m running on fumes. Cried Saturday and Monday and now today. Students were being so disrespectful in Period 5, and the…
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Update #47: Spirallinggggg
By Sammy Ginsberg Cats! Dogs! Rats! Children! I’m spirallingggg. Well not really right now, but like at 4pm – I was spiraling. I felt a panic coming on like it was November 2024, and so I went to yoga. Now I am at the Shut Up and Write in Los Feliz that I started in…
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Update #21: Thrive for Teachers
By Sammy Ginsberg After four years of teaching for LAUSD, I have resigned due to burn out. I will be working part time as a substitute teacher, as well as at the CSUN Writing Project and Writing Partners while I heal and figure out what to do next. I am also working on the Los…
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Update #18: We’re all Miserable
By Sammy Ginsberg I am back in LA! Arrived on Monday after a lovely time in London. Very healing. I left LA in turmoil and I returned to LA at peace. Well, kinda. The airport was intense, with two women getting in a screaming match in Teslas. And then my Mom triggered me in the…
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Update #14: Where do we go from here?
By Sammy Ginsberg Ah guys! I am freaking out. I am at a crossroads and feeling overwhelmed by the decision, as well as so tired of living in this limbo situation. Literally two months of limbo ruminating and overthinking – to quit or not to quit? If I quit, what will I do? Will I…
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Chaperoning in Catalina
By Sammy Ginsberg These amazing humans On the cusp of adulthoodSo much changeTransformation Overwhelming, terrifying.And we are here on this islandSnorkeling to see garibaldi,Sheephorn crabs, sea slugsKayaking to caves Song of sea lionsAnd diving pelicansHiking to bald pointAll that blue,Dolphins and dreamy vistas In this little coveFox landingIdyllic, utopicFar away from society Its own society…
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Update #9: Week 3 Crafting
My mind is all over the place and I am overwhelmed and foggy. I’ve been here before, this is a form of decision fatigue caused by the existential crisis I’m having over whether to leave teaching or not. It’s been a roller coaster. While I had been instable for a while, teetering on the edge,…
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Update #6: Big Work Update!
OMG! We did it. After four years, FOUR YEARS!!! Of asking, requesting, fighting to have two curriculums to teach (instead of four, four, three, three, and THEN FOUR AGAIN! This is when I hit my ceiling!!), they offerd it to me!!!! The battle is over, except it wasn’t just a battle. This has been a…
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Mx. Pixie Fights Back
I am cornered and there is nowhere to run. I don’t want money. I want change. My two demands right now (although I am still in process of developing these and would love feedback and to collaborate)! ONE. Stop using shame to make me feel like I’m the problem teacher when really you are not…