BBC.......................Yes, it Involves Buna....

 Buna Back to Class........

Bunch of you thought something else.....I got to be more serious, or change my ways or something......

The old Govteach hated today. The Monday after Spring Break was the worst day of the school year. Teach high school seniors for 127 years, you know those bunch of 12th graders are coming back done, just done. 

Seniorities is real. Seniorteacherites is also real. I had a bad case a couple of years. I literally almost called Teacher Retirement System of Texas( TRS) in April and told them, " I am done....." Literally almost went to the office cussed out some folks along the long stroll, walked out the door and left everything....  

I was in a meeting with a teacher a few years earlier than the year I retired when he received a phone call on his cellular device and he remarked....." I got to take this." He steps into the hall and a few minutes later he steps  back in the meeting and says. " That was teacher retirement, they told me I could retire. " 

He leaves, gets in his car and goes home. Even leaves his sandwich/chips he had planned to eat for lunch in his desk./  

 This was shortly after we came back from Spring Break..........I understood. 

Morale at the Buna Schools ain't that good. Not just because we are in the " Home stretch" of the school year, and the kids are done, never mind there are state exams coming....

Many are looking for an " Out." be it quit teaching/education altogether. Some are looking hard at new school districts, and in this day and age of most people not wanting to put up with the nightmare that is teaching in 2026, they should be fairly easily be able to find another position.  

And afterward, the next few weeks, many will seriously start to say to themselves, " Man, I cannot do this anymore."  

Already, a professional within the district cleaned out their office over the weekend, and left a note literally saying...." I'm Done."  

And this will not be the only one who leaves the Buna District. They see no hope and well, who can blame them if they can find a better position, especially one that pays better?

There are long term employees who are trying to make it one more year, two more years so they can cash in that pension from TRS but they look at another year, another two and say to themselves, are telling others, they " May not make it."

 Things are that bad.