Living the real dream!

I've been so busy getting my classroom ready that I haven't even opened Lemmy the last two weeks. The students' first day was last Thursday, which is a week earlier than it's ever been.

Country: USA Years Teaching: 5 (full-time tutor and sub for a couple years before) Grades: 5th Subject: Science and health currently, but I previously taught English language arts. I loved teaching reading but not so much writing. I don't want to go back from science.

I am not sure of the specifics, but that seems to be the case. If you have a bachelor's degree in some other field, you can go through an alternate route program to get your teaching license. It also probably varies by state.

This will be my fifth year of teaching. My first year was the year that COVID hit, so no, it hasn't quite been what I thought it would be, to say the least. I do enjoy it most of the time, but I also was not on anti-anxiety meds until I started teaching. I am thankful for the schedule it allows me to have, and I do enjoy actually teaching when I am able to do so. Paperwork, meetings, and discipline problems (with a lack of support from admin) I enjoy far less.

Well, it wasn't meant nefariously, but if it gets this community active, I guess it was effective!

The SexOver30 subreddit was instrumental in getting my wife and me through a very tough time and reigniting a bedroom that had been dead for a long while. I am excited to contribute to building a community here in the same spirit to help others in similar ways. And there are still some lingering issues and other random questions that I could use some help and support through from time to time, as well.

Thanks for heading it up!

I got a chance to work with a person going down a similar alternate route last year. She had a degree in journalism and found that she hated it, so she was transitioning to education. I really liked how it was a slower pace than the student teaching boot camp I had to endure.

Thanks for the reply! I and my wife are two of those thousands who were helped by that subreddit over the years. I would love to help build a similar space here for those of us who have left Reddit completely behind. My intention was not to stage a coup or hostile takeover -- I just wanted to see it turn into an active and positive community.

Thank you! Is there a way to remove the banned account from the mod list?

Wow, red? I guess that's why we aren't allowed to paint ours.

Except posting here is what admin has asked us to do in previous situations. PMing was literally discouraged. I did end up sending an email.

Edit: Sorry, I realize he directed people in that specific situation to [email protected], but there have been multiple times in extremely similar situations over the past week when users have been told to post here. Both are modded by the lemmy.world admins, and I would think either is appropriate.

RJ City is so good. I'm glad he's been getting more screen time on actual TV.

I don't have a big reason. I signed up for a secondary account on a tiny instance when lemmy.world was having trouble. I like the more close-knit feel, but I was also already kind of established here. So I just have both now.

I'm thankfully still 5th grade science, but I have to move classrooms (again). Ugh.

Unfortunately I only have two more weeks of summer... It goes way too quickly! Currently enjoying time with my family and just starting to plan a little.

You're good. I think a few are misunderstanding my intentions. I do have an alt on a much smaller instance, and I know how all of that works. But lemmy.world is my primary instance, and in the interest of this specific server, squatters and inactive communities aren't a good thing. Admins here have already asked that they be reported so they can be removed.

I understand how the fediverse works. This is a support community for the specific instance Lemmy.world, not the entire fediverse.

Yes, you are technically correct that a community with the same name could be made on another instance. But this is the Lemmy.world Support community. As the largest Lemmy instance at the moment, why would they want their server full of inactive communities modded by squatters? It's also my primary instance, so why would I want to create another account elsewhere just to make that community?

That's why I posted here. I didn't want to overstep by sending PMs.

User buelldozer has done the same thing with several communities, apparently reserving them for the mods of the corresponding subreddits.

I'd like to see c/sexover30 active and would take it over to see that happen.

Tony Khan loves a tournament. There are three currently going.

People love their tribalism (as evidenced by the downvote you got), but it's so dumb. I have better things to expend my energy on than whether or not someone likes the same things I do. I'm hoping some others get involved in posting here so we can build a positive wrestling community. There are very few of those!