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no brainer
By tia

of course i'll be in! ( i was in for over 3 hours today) and it was HEAVEN--no phone calls to make, no urgent emails, last minute copies, children getting in trouble, asking questions, needing help, no requests from the
nurse or secretary, no friends around to distract me--ha ha, that's probably the biggest!
one major reason i wouldn't want to teach at a year-round school (there are a couple schools where this is an option for one class at each grade level) is i would use those short breaks to work!
i have 3 large tubs full of stuff that needs to be filed/put away--some things i own that have never

been put away, some leftover from last year, mostly stuff i've used this year, but tossed in a pile because i was too lazy to put away--now that all has to be done.

i also had to take down the display case and 4 bulletin boards (and create 3 new bulletin boards).

and...next week (we have 2 weeks winter break), the district will shut the heat off so they can fix something, so any work i'll do at school will have to be this week. i have TONS of grading, and, of course, planning to do, but that will be done at home. i figured if i worked for just one hour each day, it would be manageable--so far i'm off 3 hours! (i haven't given up on working tonight, yet...)

my teaching partner and i are somewhat compulsive about working, so we always wish each other--hope you get lots of work done over break! because we know we'll be frantic during the school week if we don't work a lot during weekends/breaks--it's a trade-off!!

hope you all get sufficient rest and work during your break!