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5th year. New city. Finally got real.
An orientation letter came from my new school this weekend. I opened it up and found wonderful things: A map of the neighborhood, letters from various leaders, and even some “homework.”
But my favorite thing was a line in the orientation schedule page: “Faculty Members will receive laptops for use while working at the school. You will not need to bring personal laptops to school during training.”
Not only do they realize that we need these laptops to do our jobs effectively, but they also realize that we will actually bring our own for fear that we don’t have the necessary tools to do their jobs.
It was like they said, “Hey, overachievers, you don’t have to lug your crap around Boston because we are ACTUALLY going to help you be PREPARED to educate our children.”
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