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No More Guilt
By Mindfull

I felt so guilty that I went to school throwing up. It is so hard to get control of the kids after a sub. I have been lucky and found a sub that sticks to the lesson. I set up an a.m./p.m. basket for the day with everything
lined up in order of use with brief notes attached on how to present the lesson. It takes me about 3 hours to do this but then we don't get behind. I have had to be gone a lot as our school got a grant and all K-3 teacher's had to attend intensive training for it. We missed 2 days a week for the 1st month and then 1 day a week for the next 2 months. Now we only miss 1 day a month

for the follow up training. However when an opportunity to go the a union conference covering many areas I have questions in, with a big push from my union president I signed up and I will be gone 2 full days in December. I am really stressing about it. Not any more.
This week my uncle died in a head on collision and I took a day off for the funeral. I felt so guilty that I went in to teach reading and give the sub some pointers for the rest of the day. Well I got there and there was no sub. I was promised they would have it covered by 10:30 when I had to leave for the funeral. At 10:55 someone finally came. I was in tears that I was going to be 20 min. late for the funeral and then and there I decided not to feel guilty again. They could have called the person that filled in for me to come earlier but she told me they said 11:00. I am also going to call back and get 1/2 a day pay as I was there for 1/2 the day. Don't feel guilty. It's not worth it and your kids will survive without you.