Since everyone was talking about it at the beauty palor, I guess it's ok to publicize here that the administration for the school is leaving at the end of the year. One person was "interim," so it came as no big shock, although I will miss the support I've received all year. The first year of teaching is no picnic in itself, but I can't imagine where I would be if I was getting no support from the administration. (and the counseling staff - who are really cool too!) As for the others, I heard rumors on one - but rumors are rumors. Schools are rife with them. If I listened or rather, believed any of them, I'd be going insane with panic every five minutes. I am very good at panicking.
Add into this mix the parent conferences. So far, I've had no angry parents and one who told me that although my class was challenging, the student was thrilled to be challenged. That makes two out of 120! By next year, that number will be doubled. I swear it!
While waiting for parents to show up, I've had a bit of time on my hands... unfortunately for the recent essay writers. Well, I guess it doesn't really matter since these plagerists are too lazy to do a really good job. One student never bothered to remove the hyperlinks from the cut-n-paste job. No, nothing suspicious about one word printed in blue and underlined sitting in the middle of a page of black printing... not at all. Or the student who's failed every vocabulary test this year (and written sentences like - "Dued, I thought* I writhe my ankle in the game") suddenly developing the ability to use words like factor, permiate or suffice correctly in a sentence. It's not even fun anymore.
*I was a bit surprised to see that thought was spelled correctly.
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