Well at least I'm better off than Hillary

Since graduating from college, my high anxiety nightmare of being a senior in high school and not having any artwork hours before my senior show has been replaced by my high anxiety nightmare that I am teaching high school. In this dream, sometimes I have no lesson plan, sometimes I am being evaluated, and sometimes the kids just won't behave. Really, the nightmare is really very close to the actual experience, which explains why most teachers gain 10 pounds of stress weight during the year. The need to spend the summer relaxing and exercising to loose this weight may be the most powerful case for summer vacation.

So last night I have a dream that I am teaching the algebra 2 class that I had when I taught in the Valley. I am collecting work and none of them have done any of it (again, these dreams are so real because this probably did happen). So I am trying to explain to them that this is 2/15 of the final grade, but I am struggling to turn this fraction into a decimal on the chalkboard (this part never happened, thank goodness) to tell them the percentage of their grade that they lost.

Then I am in the teachers lounge with a few other teachers and Hillary Clinton. She doesn't have any discipline problems with her classes and they always turn in work on time. She looks a little down at me, like the fact that my juniors, who were forced to take math as an elective when they all know they don't need it to graduate, don't do the (challenging to them) work assigned is my fault.

When she leaves I look at the other teachers and say, well she may be able to discipline her classes but her career is a total mess since she has alienated her constituents by playing dirty politics in an attempt to get a nomination that she lost months ago. So really, those kids might not have turned in their work, but I am way better off than Hillary Clinton.

I woke up and thought, "Well, I guess I should be grateful that I got my suicide mission job out of the way before I was old enough for it to really affect my career." Also, can you image what a great high school teacher that Hillary Clinton would be to a group of juvenile delinquents. She would scare the crap out of those kids. Maybe I see a future for you yet, ole' HRC.