The home stretch

Well it's been a hard knock row we hoe this term but the end is near.
If you're not a teacher it's probably hard to imagine the feeling that there is in a school at this time of year, and I'm not talking about the students either!
Picture this, your whole office takes a vacation at the same time, and not a short one either, a nice long one. Well that's pretty much how it feels for us.

The countdown clock is into the single digits. The kids have pretty much punched their tickets at this point, the work is mostly in and the remaining assignments compete with nice weather, spring sports finals, and senioritis. Most of them will make it. A couple have fallen off the bandwagon, some are working to keep on it. It's hard sometimes to show a 15yr old that the choices they make in my class could have repercussions for the rest of their academic life.
And with the nice weather comes the chorus of "Can we go Outside?". Well to this I replied "yes" last week and took all the classes outside to the backyard (as I call the area behind the school athletic fields) and all I got were complaints that it was too hot and could the go back inside!!

This is also the season of the faculty merry-go-round. Positions open, positions cut positions open again. Where it stops nobody knows. One minute we had double study halls and sparse electives, the next it seemed we had our electives back and the study halls cut! And with the cut courses and restored courses come and go people, colleagues, friends. It's not fun.

Stay tuned!