Good Day

Wow! What a day. Coming back from Spring Break you would think that things would be a little slow. Not in my classroom. What a great day back to school. The kids were very well behaved. They worked hard and allowed me to work on their report cards.

Union on the other hand was very rough. How do you go on day to day knowing that your union is closer and closer to striking? How do you keep the members motivated knowing that they may not get a pay raise or keep their insurance?

It is a lot to think about and a lot to take in. Hopefully, things will start to turn around soon.

Back Pain

Nothing like having to stay home and rest because you pull all the muscles in your lower back. David is always telling me that I need to take time and rest and care for myself. I guess, my body decided that I needed to do this no matter what my mind believes. David as always, is right again, but don't tell him that. I will never hear the end of it.

I am very tired and need the rest. It is difficult when so many things are going wrong with work and union and Spring break not being when it is supposed to be. I hope that other things get better soon.

Looking forward to Spring Break.

Frustration

What a week. I am so tired. I filed my first PS case in 16 years of teaching this past week. I am really worried about this young girl. Today she informed me that her mother has already moved all of her stuff to Davison. I am hoping that PS finds a way to let her stay with her grandparents and not allow her to go with her mom. I was really worried about her. I still am.

On the other hand I have another child who believes that she should be able to do what ever she wants and be as rude as she wants all of the time. Today she informed me that she got jumped by another girl over the weekend. I can't believe it, but I was really happy that it happened. It is about time some of these children who are bullies are given a dose of their own treatment.

Today my little one had a rough day. She had a lot of kids in her class give her a hard time today. She was so sad when school was over. I wish that I could protect my own children more. However, being a teacher your own kids are a target for others.

What a week!

Wow, did you ever think that a week could be this difficult. As a teacher it has been terrible. I had to file my first PS case in 16 years of teaching. It has been such an emotional ordeal. I am really exhausted this week. Then my wonderful class just loses it with a sub yesterday and I end up with 1 child being suspended and 4 serving detention.

I am so discouraged, I even cancelled the 4th-6th grade dance.

However, on another front, we have enough money to pay for the bus to Cedar Point. So the only thing the children will need to come up with is the price of the ticket to get in.

That just removed so much stress from my life.

We have been fund raising all year and I am so glad that this is starting to come together.

What a way to end a week. I hope next week is better than this one.

Community Service

Today in my classroom I have 2 students from one of the high schools doing community service to be able to graduate from high school. Apparently all of the other students in the building are either on a fieldtrip or they are doing community service in one of the classrooms.

Interesting children. They need a lot of work to say the least. One of them I taught at the other elementary where I worked. That was a long time ago.

Hopefully the rest of the day will go well.

MACUL

Had a great time at the MACUL conference. It was hard getting around with my foot being sprained. Got to talk to Marty Jennings. It was very informative. Learned several new things to do with powerpoint. I hope that I will be able to apply most of this information to my teaching.

I learned how to write grants and certain things that I need to do in order to make the grant work.

I am looking forward to sharing this information with my colleagues.

One of those days!!!

Boy it sure is hard being a mother and a teacher. I tell you, I am ready to pull my hair out with my middle child. It seems that she never wants to do anything that she is asked to do. She has been working on her penmanship homework for 1 hour......I am out of my mind. I know that I teach older kids, but I have no patience for my own child. I feel really bad, but when you talk about the fact that no 2 children are alike, that is definitely true for my children.

My older one is very competent and works well with direction. The middle child just tries me for all I am worth. I wish that things were easier for her, but they are not. Some days are just like this. I hope tomorrow will be better.