Tuesday, March 17, 2009

God, please gimme a break

So this is how my day went:

7:30- Arrive at school, get classroom ready for kiddies.
8:30- Kids enter class, refuse to do morning work, bouncing off classroom walls.
9:05- Attempt to start reading lesson, children not focused.
9:30- Student decides she's going to shred and draw with crayon all over her vocabulary.
9:50- Office called for help because student won't sit in seat. Mrs. Heydorn starts to "lose it"
10:00- Assistant Principal enters room and yells at abnoxious brat student.
10:45- Lunch. Student refuses to get in lunch line.
11:27- Student escorted to office for detention.
12:30- Class is bouncing off walls again. Takes 10 minutes to get students in line for Specials.
1:05- Students come back from Specials, talking throughout Math lesson.
2:00- Partner project in Math cancelled because students are fighting.
2:40- Heads down, lights out until bell rings. Class-wide "time out"
3:00- Mrs. H about to QUIT THIS GOD AWFUL JOB, goes to speak to bratty student's mom.
3:30- Bratty student's mom crying and asking "I don't know what to do with her!!!," Mrs. H thinking - how about disciplining your child!?
3:45- Doctor gives Mrs. H the clear to go to the gym because of healed foot. (GOOD NEWS FINALLY!)
4:30- Mrs. H arrives at home, crazy neighbor acosts her while she's trying to enter her home.
4:40- Finally able to enter my house, changing and then my crazy neighbor calls me. I don't answer.
9:00- Driving home from book club, I almost run over a cat and a possum.

SERIOUSLY! IS THIS REALLY MY LIFE!?

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