Insanity

Since I posted "home stretch", many things have gone awry.

There was a rather large drug bust in my classroom in April, breaking the record at my school. It was some marijuana, and it would not have been found unless the student had so much that it fell out of his pocket.

Additionally, this week we had a bomb scare. There is no way to verbalize the terror of something like that. We believe that it was a student who noticed all the media attention and thought a piece of the pie wouldn't be too bad. It ended up just being a threat. Nonetheless, we had to hold students in the classrooms for over 2 hours while police K-9 units canvassed the buildings. They didn't tell us what was going on, just that nobody was to leave any classroom under any circumstances.

Try keeping kids calm and focused on working when there are police dogs sniffing at the door, and announcements every 20 minutes about how it is very important we stay put. Try it, I dare you.

The next day there was something of a threat phoned into my classroom. It was a prank call to bother one of my students, but still very stressful.

I can't believe the year is almost over. I have only 5 more classes with my 8th graders. I think I will definitely cry on the last day of school.

To sum up: a lot of stress lately and the end is in sight.