We finally got Read180 functioning, and yesterday and today I've been having my students take the Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI). I'm not the only class that they're testing in, so needless to say, they've been rather crazy. There are a large chunk of my students that I'm going to call their parents. It is just unacceptable for them to be this silly and distracted.
My third hour has been psycho ever since Friday... and Friday was a bad day. Students were screaming obscenities at one another, throwing pencils, pens, calling each other nappy-headed, the n-word, grabbing each other's hair and pulling... I still get tears in my eyes just remembering it, and a tight feeling in my chest. I called the security guard, and while she was there they were okay, but then she left and it was pandemonium again. Friday, I cried after my third hour ended, huddled down into my tiny bathroom, sobbing on the floor. I calmed down enough to walk to Ashley Crawford's room on the other side of the freaking school (I brought my own toilet paper in case she didn't have tissues), but then I just broke down again; all I'd wanted to do was just talk about it, not cry anymore. She called Laurencia, who then came and took over for me during 5th hour (because they're generally crazy as well). It was bad, and as a result that class is still un-tamable. Even Laurencia is having a hard time getting them to listen to her, and that's near impossible not to do because she's just one of those people you listen to.
Anyhow, I'm doing my best to take things a day at a time, and to be as positive as I possibly can be. And I'm so damned grateful that Laurencia is back from her health sabbatical (doctor imposed), because she's got me functioning like a normal human being now that she's back. It makes me want to call up Jesus and say, "Now, I know that Laurencia is human, but right now she's practically a saint. Without that whole martyrdom-thing-that-most-saints-have-to-experience, can she be sainted? Cause... she deserves it."
I have a mole that's been killing me; it's burning like crazy. I'm gonna go and see my doctor tonight about it.
THIRTEEN DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS BREAK!!!
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at World's of Fun, June 2, 2007
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Shauna, I feel for you! I bet you're really looking forward to the break. Sometimes it just gets so exhausting putting up with all that foolishness, especially when you have so much to teach.
I really hope the break will give you and the kids the break it sounds like you need. Hang in there sweetie. Just a couple more weeks!
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