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​Professional Pet Peeves

We all have them.  I call them my professional pet peeves.

​Here sits a series of things that bother me in education.
Some are silly, maybe even snarky, ​but they are all true, and I intend for them to be considered valid.

Stop Accepting ​It Is What It Is
​Stop and Smell the Roses
Stop Begging
Stop Being Friendly
Stop Believing You Can't Change Things
Stop Building Walls
Stop Building Helicopters
Stop Calling It Collaboration
Stop Calling It a Nation
Stop Calling It Bullying
Stop Calling It Professional Development
Stop Calling Them Kiddos
Stop Carrying Coffee
Stop Citing Doctors and Lawyers
Stop Comparing Reading with Math
Stop Comparing Schools and Prisons
Stop Counting Down
Stop Depending on Sports
Stop Dressing Down
Stop Driving Fancy Cars
Stop Driving in the Ruts
Stop Falling for "Research-Based"
Stop Finding "The Why"
​Stop Following the Teachers Edition
Stop Getting Offended
Stop Getting on the Same Page
Stop Giving Handouts
Stop Giving Up
Stop Hanging Your Hat on Literacy
Stop Holidaying
Stop Impulse Buying
​Stop Interrupting Me
Stop Leaving the Door Open
Stop Leaving the Utility Doors Open
Stop Leaving the Lights On
Stop Listening to Other Teachers
Stop Longing for Title I Funding
Stop Making Excuses
Stop Making It Fun
Stop Neglecting History
Stop Neglecting the Good Stuff
Stop Not Reinventing the Wheel
Stop Posting Snow Days
Stop Professing Martyrdom
Stop Putting Insulated Bags in the Fridge
Stop Quitting Early
Stop Saying SPED
Stop Sending Jobs to the Copier
Stop Settling for Jeans Day
Stop Sharing Out
​Stop Sighing at "Back to School"
Stop Silencing the Children
Stop Skipping Across the Surface
Stop Stacking Behavior Reactions
Stop Stopping
Stop Stressing Out Now
Stop Supporting Football (Only)
Stop Taking Your Class to Specials
Stop Teaching ELA
Stop Telling Me How Bad It Will Be
Stop Thanking Me for All that I Do
Stop the Nonsense
Stop Thinking Your Class Is the Worst
Stop Treating Children Like Computers
Stop Tying Education to Sin
Stop Undermining Comme Il Faute
Stop Vacationing
Stop Wasting Money
Stop Working Us When We Have Work to Do

The Hoggatteer Revolution

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