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Joan Sheehan's avatar

Good on you! My daughter has been teaching for ten years and the burnout is wicked. I know that you give the students more than you think, just by being you and caring. Have a relaxing and rejuvenating break!

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Susan Campbell's avatar

Thank you so much. I'm pretty sure I get far more from the students than they get from me.

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Jac's avatar

Yay! Even if you're dragging yourself across the line, you did it! 🎉 I hope your break is extra wonderful and rejuvenating!

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Susan Campbell's avatar

Thank you. I’d take a bow but I’d probably just fall into the orchestra.

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Ava's avatar

What the students will remember first and foremost will be a teacher who cared about them - who cared enough to try hard to teach well, to share her passion, to see them - and care enough for them - as people.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

That's my dream. Thank you for reminding me of it.

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Bill Yousman's avatar

I sometimes think that the aptest comparison to teaching is stand up comedy. It's all about the chemistry between the "audience" and the "performer." Sometimes it gels, sometimes it doesn't. And there are an infinite number of variables. I know that your students are as lucky to have you as audiences were lucky to have Richard Pryor.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

Well, if that's the comparison you feel called to make, I'll take it. Thank you.

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Deacon Art's avatar

Mmmm. Finished and you’re not eating steak through a straw. I call that success.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

That's it. I still have my teeth.

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Paul Ashton's avatar

While it was nothing compared to what you have to do over a semester, for a time I conducted multiple session trainings. At the end of the last session I would ask folks for feedback by having them fill out evaluations. My all-time favorite response was “I thought it was going to suck. It didn’t suck”.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

Ha. That's actually high praise.

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Sharon Foster (CT)'s avatar

I finished the Medicaid renewal for my mom and dropped it in the mail on Monday. 20 pages of forms and 30 pages of proof documents. Response due 30 days from date of letter, but it took 9 days for the letter to reach me in CT from Austin TX and the same 9 days for it to reach my mom in Dallas. (Thanks Postmaster DeJoy.) The postage-paid return envelope is a joke. But it's done.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

That's a huge deal. My cousin has been working on this for my aunt, her mother. Jaysus. That's huge.

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Sharon Foster (CT)'s avatar

Yeah. The kicker is that much of it is unchanged once you get over the initial hurdles: proof of citizenship, for example. But rulz is rulz.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

They is, rulz.

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Joanna I James's avatar

Great job describing all the moving parts. I appreciate it so much. Thank you. And Congratulations end of semester 2022 breakfast champion!

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Susan Campbell's avatar

Oh, yes. We discussed that in one of our classes, campaign media, and we'd been following that campaign.

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