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Packing Up

This past week has been insane. I feel like I've been run ragged every night! Everyone is working on putting the finishing touches on their portfolios for the year... which means I'm running around the room answering 400 questions an hour. One student insists that I read everything written before publishing - nevermind the other 30 students in the class. I may go insane. And I was told that I'm really a mean teacher because I'm "forcing" students to work until the last week of school. I really wanted to reply something horribly snarky, but thought the better of it...

I'm hoping that I get to move classrooms next year. One with four solid walls and no movie soundtrack for every lesson.. but this means that everything must be fully packed to be moved. I spoke with someone about it this morning, listing the reasons why it would be a good idea. One of them was that it would be easier to talk with teachers while still watching my classroom - I then informed that I probably shouldn't tell people I leave my classroom. I was confused... because I'm not trapped in there for the full 8 hours... of course, I was talking about passing periods and meetings. The listener assumed I was talking about classtime... obviously, one of us hasn't taught freshmen in a while - and it wasn't me. What ejit leaves a room full of 14 year old without being able to see all areas? Not me... I don't want to go down in history as the teacher who had "that" happen in the classroom (fill in the current scandalous "that" from your own school... you KNOW the one I'm talking about. Every school has one).

Speaking of which - doesn't everything at the end of the year turn into a scandal? Currently, we have several student "scandals," a yearbook "scandal," a graduation "scandal," just to name the current few. The gossip hounds are on overdrive!

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