Rule #6:
Post a Sign That Says NO ENERGY VAMPIRES ALLOWED on Your Bus
In my job, I've had to deal with energy vampires. So have you. At times, I may have been a vampire to you; at other times, you may have been one to someone else.
The answer is not to fire all who are negative. Often, we in education have so much to feel negative about that it is all to easy to fall into a rut of negativity. And most times in our lives, we couldn't fire somebody even if we wanted to--like they angry and irrational parent, or the pompous and disconnected legislator.
So what is the answer? How do we appropriately deal with people who are sucking the positive energy from us? Maybe we need to read some more...
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