It's days like this that my job absolutely sucks. Especially my teaching position right now. I am technically a full time teacher and therefore required to be present at parent teacher conferences. Problem is, I don't have my own students to see. I have 10 students from two different classrooms. So at the moment, I am sitting in a rock hard, little person chair in the hallway between the two classrooms waiting for students to show up. There really is no schedule, they just come whenever. I wait for my students to come, go into the conference, sit there pretty much silently, and then return to my chair in the hallway. At least the parents get to see me. Although, most of them look at me with disdain and I can practically hear the worrisome thoughts and the get the "you're so young and new" look. Most of them don't understand that even though I don't have my own class, I am NOT an aide or a paraprofessional. I AM a highly qualified, certified, legit teacher that knows what she is doing. It's ok that I haven't taught for twenty years, in fact that may make me better...
Needless to say, I am bored out of my mind and really wish I had brought a book with me or something to do. I can't even be in my room to work on things in there...
