u/Arctic---

I teach afterschool enrichment at several schools and last week I went into a middle school and probably heard "Shut the fuck up/ Fuck you" atleast 5 times while walking through the school.

The kids just have no respect for each other, the teachers, or anyone else and its way worse being the last few weeks of school because they know they will get away with a lot.

Today I had a 3rd grader tell her class mate to shut the fuck up, and when I told her that was unacceptable and she knows not to say it, she mentioned how her father lets her curse as home. How do you expect us to discipline your child when you let them speak like that at home.

Today we were doing a hands on activity and when I called my students to come grab their materials, they all ran up and knocked a bunch of stuff over. I think the school staff tries their best, but what can you do in those situations, especially when parents are not teaching their children basic etiquette. In my 2 hours of teaching today, I probably had 10 disruptions.

My kids that pay attention are super sweet and love to learn, its just every class has a handful of chronic disrupters where as it use to be a few per grade when I was growing up. 10 minutes of disciplining children is 10 minutes less that I am giving personalized attention and its not fair.

Two more weeks!

Whenever I am training a lot (4-5 days a week of sport specfic training plus 2 conditioning sessions and 2 strength sessions) I find that I get sick every 12 weeks or so with either a sinus infection or some kind of cold. I use to only get a sick once or twice a year.

It has me considering just dropping to 4 days a week and trimming the fat off my sessions because it seems to be regular thing. I guess I just don't tolerate high volume training as well as I wish I did. I use to be a weightlifter and I responded better to 3-4 days than I did 5-6.

Not sure the extra day is worth getting sick more often because it ends up making me take time off. I think grappling is obviously worse due to extended direct contact, but I also think striking can be unsanitary too. How often do you see your gym mates disinfecting their equipment? I guess I just have become a germaphobe due to repeated sickness.

Anything else you can do besides try to sleep more, eat a balanced diet, and minimize stress? Its driving me crazy how often I have to take a break.

Ever since the new Broadway interchange was installed, traffic has been severely fucked up in South Denver. They don't have any of the lights timed correctly at the Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi lights and often you will catch every single red light for no reason. They still allow the west turn cycle to go on despite not having the ability to turn that way. Over the course of a day I bet it wastes like 30 minutes, and over months its days of time wasted over complete laziness in the setup.

They also have the Iowa/Santa Fe exit closed which has diverted traffic to the Broadway, Mississippi or Evans Exits, making south Broadway traffic absolutely the worst I have ever seen it. During Rush Hour it gets backed up on I-25 and it takes multiple light cycles just to exit the interstate on to Broadway( which is no turn on red). If you are west of Broadway like off Delaware, Cherokee, Galapago, crossing left on to Broadway has taken me 5-10 minutes of waiting. Heading west on Evans over Santa Fe gets backed up to DU who's pedestrian cycle is so blatantly rigged for the DU kids that it will stop traffic for several minutes just to let 1 person cross the street.

I honestly do not think it has helped traffic whatsoever. Its almost faster to get off at Sante Fe or just to keep going to the University exit sometimes. Its driving me crazy and I can tell its driving others crazy too because of all the damn road rage in the area.

Its so bad that I will skip doing whatever I have to do until after 630 when it starts to slow down. I basically do not want to be driving between 430 and 630 in that area due to poor civil planning. Its a complete clusterfuck for no reason. Why they decided to do all of these things in the same area at the same time is completely stupid planning. Just like when the city does construction during rush hour, like you could easily do this early morning or later in the evening, how fucking stupid are they?