“My husband and I, who are both educators (…), made a decision that we were only going to talk about work for an hour and by 4 o'clock it was done. And if you tried to bring it up you couldn't. You got till 4 o'clock. We hold each other accountable.”
“You're not opening that computer up on the weekend. What's done is done. If it can't get graded, it can't get graded. ‘Oh, Miss Villa, did you grade that?’ Did you hand it in on time? If you didn't hand it in on time, I'm not grading it. I don't answer emails over the weekend. I have a life.”
“I don't have to do work on the weekend because I stay up late during the week. I do sacrifice my week. I stay up late. I work late because I don't want no one to touch my Saturday and Sunday. That's for my sons, my husband and me and my friends. That's it.”
“But it's a decision because the thoughts come in. I can be watching Netflix and go, ‘Oh, my God! That would be a perfect clip to to watch with my kids!’ But I'm not allowed to say it, even if it comes in my head. I'm not allowed to tell my husband.”
“Teaching is an art form. You should be able to go into everybody's different room and just see a different painting, a different canvas, a different style. So it's always going. But you have to make the decision to have boundaries and having someone that holds you accountable to that—having those friends in that life, that friend, or that that sibling, or someone that is going to call you on Saturday and be like, ‘What you're doing?’ ‘Well, I'm working on…’ ‘No, you're not. No, you're not. You're coming out.’”
“You’ve got to snap yourself out of it. It is. It is a decision that I make, and me and my husband, we keep each other accountable.”