I agree with everything everyone else offered. I also enjoy not
having to be checking my watch to be a certain place at a
certain time. Just the other day I was strolling through
Target..didn't need anything but it was nice not to have any
committments. I was a full year replacement substitute a while
back and it made me realize what a thankless job teaching has
become! Any doubts or regrets I had about retiring are gone!!!
On 4/21/16, Joel wrote:
> On 4/11/16, Cal-Kid wrote:
>> Monday mornings and not having to rush up, get ready,
fight
>> traffic for 17 miles, get to work and find I have to cover a
>> class on my prep because of no sub for the supposedly
sick
>> teacher. This happened many times on Mondays and
Fridays. Do
>> not miss that action, reaction and stress. Retirement gets
>> better every Monday!
>>
>> On 3/24/16, Bill T nc (now retired) wrote:
>>>
>>> I'll go first.
>>>
>>> I love being able to set my own agenda, each day. This
>> morning, I drove down to
>>> the banks of the Nantahala River, had breakfast at River's
>> End and then spent
>>> hours sitting at a picnic table next to the river, working
>> on various facets of the
>>> four books I am writing.
>>>
>>> No meetings. No lesson plans. No irate parents. No
>> politics!!!
> Not having to get up at 6AM,no administrators demanding
we do it
> their way,no children whose only reason for coming to school
was
> to cause disruptions,time to do what I want,not spend hour
after
> hour preparing lesson plans and grading papers. After 40
years
> it was time.
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