Two days left!!!!

Everyday this week I have come home exhausted and drained. Tonight was my first night getting in before 7:00 PM. I am so drained that I can hardly make the drive home. I close my eyes and rest while sitting in the drive thru. It seems like the end of the school term is just dragging and dragging and dragging and there is still tons of work to do. We’ve got put grades in the computer system AND average them manually. Complete a failure lists, turn in this and that, go through exit interviews with reflections and the list goes on and on and on. Calgon take me away.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The Drama Queen saga continues
She came to me today and apologized. I accepted her apology. She said that it really bothered her that she had disrespected me in such a way. She doesn't believe in treating adults like that, but she had so much on her. She said that she's under a lot of stress and that was simply her breaking point. I explained that life beyond high school will treat her bad on a different level and she'd can't respond the way she did to this. She said her teammates were angry with her for quitting. Drama Queen wants back on the team. I told her I would have to think about it. The answer is no because it will set the wrong example. No matter how badly we need her. I pray I making the right decision.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Cheaters
We’ve been having final exams this week & a freshman teacher thing happened to me. The kids stole the key to my test and cheated. Because we have such a GREAT discipline program, we can’t make the students take the test again without proof—crib sheet or visually seeing them—even though another student who saw them turned it in. What kind of honor policy is this. Two of the students would have failed the class without making such high scores on the exam. I am disappointed that there was nothing more that could be done. I strongly believe that no bad deed goes unpunished and they will get theirs in another way.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Cry Babies
In one of my classes, I scored the exams while they were still in the class and was able to give them their final grades. In this class, I only had 2 to fail. One begged and begged me for extra credit. I said no amount of extra credit was going get him from a 60 to 70 on a semester grade. It just couldn’t happen. The other girl started crying when she found out she had a 65 for a semester grade. She wanted me to give her all 5 points. I explained it was just too many points.

After this I decided, I would give no more students final grades. I am not emotionally equipped to handle the reactions of students. I say let them find out when they are home over the summer and I’m not around to discuss it. Students from my other classes came in to find out their grades, I lied and said I wasn’t finished yet. My last period, knew I was finished and after I explained the crying situation, they still wanted to know their grades. I refused, plain and simple. I know this is all apart of the job--but I'm still going to avoid it.