but ...

on the sick day, i got a call at about 4:30 from a fellow teacher who felt like she should fill me in on what had happened in my class at the end of the day.

i still don't have all the details, but it involved a toy - but VERY real looking - gun (i saw it), threats, a suspension, parents up at the school ... who then blamed me for some IEP non-compliance business. total garbage, but still, so annoying. this parent says she has asked me "multiple times" to redo her son's IEP and place him in a more restrictive environment. umm, she has never called me. not once. stopped up at school once to pick him up when he got arrested, which resulted in his father coming into my classroom and telling (yelling) the whole class that he would F* them and their parents the f* up if they f*ing messed with his son anymore.

yep. my fault. yeah right.

sick day 2

i didn't go to school on monday. i had sore muscles (from alllll the strenuous exercise i've been doing lately. um, wait. well ... anyway) and could literally not get out of bed.

on tuesday, my kids told me ALL day long about how much fun they had - why couldn't i be sick again, why don't we have free time all day, why don't we watch movies??????

they watched a movie called "nightmare on drug street." they said it taught them not to use drugs. and then they asked if they could watch it again. i asked them to tell me why they shouldn't use drugs. they gave me some good reasons, and so i concluded, sounds like you learned what you needed from that movie. i don't think you need to watch it again. they flipped out.

geez louise. who knew that me taking a day off would be so great for all of us?

the gameboy

the gameboy belonged to one of my girls (the one who calls me matthew - who also knows all the 10 commandments).

when she realized it was gone, she was upset, but more indignant that someone had the audacity to steal something. she kept saying, it won't be my problem when God judges them for bein' a thief. he says not to steal and you disobey well then you just gonna burn and if you wanna do that then that's your problem and it's just a gameboy why would you want to disobey God just for a gameboy ... (and on and on, rambling for, oh 20 minutes or so)

i told her i really appreciated her attitude about it.

new kid

i have a new kid in my class. this is his second week. he hasn't stayed in the classroom for longer than 20 minutes at any given time. he hasn't done any work, and the first words he used toward me were curse words. special.

he got kicked out of his other school for stealing, i think.

since he's been in our classroom, a calculator and a gameboy have gone missing.

awesome.

i love

days when it is just quiet and chill in my classroom.

today, 2 kids were suspended, 1 was absent, 1 ran around in the halls all day, and 1 was next door in another class all day.

that means 5 kids, all day long. we just hung out ... read together, did some math, played some games, set up a science experiment (sprouting seeds) ... just fun.

the countdown

man oh man. we are well under one month away from the end of school.

16 full days, 2 half days of school left. glory glory.