TeacherTeacherA lot of teachers suffer something called “decision fatigue”. We make, often thousands of decisions all day long to protect and nurture and strengthen our students. When we get home at night we are literally decisioned out we have nothing left. This year I have had toast for dinner so many times because I just could not decide what to make for dinner. I’m trying to select my clothing and lay them out the night before so it takes some of the cognitive load off the morning. To start well. 👗👚👖🧦🩲👠🥿
bananamangodog@teacherteacher healthcare workers are in the same boat 😟 Both deserve much better.
@bananamangodog I have no experience, but I’d imagine it’s worse for healthcare workers. So many of those are life/death decisions.
So much of my job now is managing whatever is going on at home what happened over the weekend,who’s not sleeping, hasn’t eaten, has no clean clothes or a shower. Whose been on a drug bender all weekend and is coming down in first period. Who’s got a court appearance. Who’s pulled a knife on someone, who’s punched who in the face “for startin’ shit”. Mondays.
@teacherteacher wow, I've worked some rough homeless shelters and they weren't as bad as you just described.