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Gretchen
@offgridteacher
Edu. M.A. Teach Plus Fellow-Alum. Peace Corps 🇸🇳. I talk about education, running, nature, baked goods, parenting, and health. My views are mine alone.
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    Gretchen
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    Dec 4, 2023
    Baby girl (aka Little One) has arrived! What started with a routine appointment led us to rush to the hospital for me to be induced and eventually deliver, but she’s here and is perfect. My friends and family were asked to send prayers for her, I’d love that from you too.
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    Gretchen
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    Jul 7, 2025
    A guy in our neighborhood went to the community pool, took a picture of a woman who changed her baby on one of the picnic table benches, posted it to the HOA FB group and shamed her for changing her baby in public. He’s getting eviscerated in the comments.
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    Gretchen
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    Jul 7, 2025
    Replying to @VictoriaTheTech
    Most people are like… tell me you don’t have kids without telling me you don’t have kids. The pool is probably far grosser.
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    Gretchen
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    Jul 7, 2025
    Replying to @poptrtsrravioli
    Good point.
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    Gretchen
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    Jul 17, 2023
    Replying to @Ahhmandah
    Last year I was 3 minutes late to an OB/GYN appointment because my husband was in a coma and it took a while for me to get out of the ICU ward. I was actually at the clinic on time, but there was a line to check in. The doctor refused to see me. I found a new doctor.
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    Gretchen
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    Aug 6, 2024
    This is what teaching does to us:
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    Eriq Gardner ✍️
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    Aug 6, 2024
    Tim Walz is younger than Brad Pitt
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    Gretchen
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    Jul 6, 2025
    My boyfriend woke up from a coma on the 4th of July 3 years ago, and the first thing he did was ask me to marry him. We got married as soon as he got out of the hospital.
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    Moon Dragon
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    Apr 1, 2025
    Share a piece of lore about yourself
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    Gretchen
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    Apr 22, 2022
    I’ve come to the conclusion that being a classroom teacher right now isn’t about actually teaching kids. Instead, it’s been about their behavior and mental health. Which…is not my actual degree or profession. Still wondering when the promised mental health cavalry will arrive.
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    Gretchen
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    Aug 12, 2023
    Teacher retirement systems should be like military pensions: make it to 20 years, and you’re set.
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    Gretchen
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    Feb 13, 2022
    Here’s an idea: compensate teachers for when they have to make sub plans. I can’t think of any other profession where you have to put in extra labor on top of sick leave.
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    Gretchen
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    Jun 8, 2021
    As of today, 2/3 of the teaching staff at my school, including myself, have resigned. We are all leaving for teaching jobs and staying in the profession, just not at that site. What would you do if you were the administrator?
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    Gretchen
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    May 16, 2024
    Replying to @sarahradz_
    SAHM here, and I too spent a few months in the south of France, doing the same thing minus the Brie and the writing- I lived in a villa and took an art history course that met in a castle. So glad I had that experience, now over 20 years later as I sit at my home in the suburbs.
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    Gretchen
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    Mar 24, 2022
    Here’s one of the biggest things I wish schools would change: stop punishing teachers when students misbehave.
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    Gretchen
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    Nov 1, 2021
    My principal subbed for me today after I woke up sick. That's the true mark of someone trying to support a school.