Teaching Through Mime

Dearest Confusia,
Not sure if you could tell from my voice this morning, but I feel like shit. In fact, I am only here today because I felt too crappy to bother writing sub plans. I figured I might as well suck it up and come to school. Plus, who wants to waste a day off sitting at home feeling like this??? As luck would have it, I'm giving a test in two of my classes, so that'll make it a little more bearable. Also, my classes this semester seem calmer than last, so that helps. Here in a few weeks they'll start taking them out to tutor for the almighty TAKS. Unfortunately, that'll be during my sex ed unit, and sadly some of the girls who need tutoring the most are also the girls who need sex ed the most. But I guess since sex ed isn't a TAKS tested thing... I mean, of life long importance, yes, but still.
I hope I continue to feel like death tomorrow. That'll be fun. I get to go to the Warehouse at 4:30 and work until 10. I guess I should consider myself lucky. At least I don't have to work the closing shift, but the reason I'm not working the closing shift is that I have to be back at school on Saturday for our Open House. Since our school is a "by application" school, we have to set apart a Saturday every year where parents and girls can come in and tour the school and get help with their applications and junk like that. So much for this being a four-day week. Maybe I should just start taking copious amounts of flu/cold/allergy medication and float through these next few days. Sounds promising.
How's life in In School Suspension?
Love, Terps
Dear Terps,
Remember when we talked on the phone this morning and I told you I was on my way to work? Why didn't you tell me to turn around, go back home, crawl into bed and pull the covers over my head? I mean, what's the problem?
I got to work, and at first, things seemed to be going pretty well. It wasn't freezing outside, etc. Then, I was standing with two of my co-workers doing morning duty, and we see a girl run up and plow into another girl. she knocked the girl flat on the ground and started punching her. I ran over as she began dragging the knocked down girl by the leg...At that point, I realize there is a mother involved also, yelling, "KICK HER ASS! KICK THAT BITCH'S ASS!" The three of us are trying to get the girls separated, and the mother looks like she's about to go for the girl, so I get in front of her and put up my arm to block her. Psycho gives me a look from hell, and kind of bucks up and says, "DON'T TOUCH ME!" I just gave her a disgusted look. WTF??? Grow up a little, you think??? We got the girls and the mother inside. The principal storms out and tells us to take all of the kids into the gym and hold them there. We do that, then the other two women and I have to go in and talk to the police officer. I hope they arrested that stupid bitch. Seriously. Yes, I have some hard feelings, but the woman made my job a nightmare this morning, and for that, she needs to pay. I'm not sure what happened with all of that, but it was a good time. As you know, shortly thereafter, I got a call from my daughter's Vice Principal who told me that Jr. got busted smoking with some girls behind the gym. She is suspended for three days. This is following the three day suspension from last week. I'm telling you...PUBLIC CANING!!! There is a place for it in our society. I'm convinced of it.
I don't know what's going on lately. I feel like the world is sort of spinning off it's fucking axis to be honest. At least for me it is...What's with all the DRAMA!?!?!?!? I'm thinking about having Jr. smoke up till she pukes tonight. Just thinking about it. Don't know if I'll do it, though. I'm rather leaning towards just taking her to a safe baby site, and dropping her off. Do they take teenagers you think?
Love, Confusia
Dear Confusia,
It's funny you say that about the safe baby site. We were talking about that in my class last semester and one of the girls said she had read about a dad who tried to drop off four kids (one of which was 15 I think) at a local fire department. Turns out they rewrote that law because of it. As sadistic and awful as it sounds, I kind of like the smoke until you puke thing. I mean, if she wants to smoke so fucking badly, maybe that experience will make her give it a second thought the next time she starts to light up. I think I'm a fan of aversion therapy. Once my brother ate an entire pineapple upside down cake in one sitting, and he can't even look at pineapple now without heaving. Might have some merit.
Being as how I have approximately 2% of my voice left today, I am ETERNALLY grateful for my girls being so well-behaved today. (Though I did warn them that I had less personality than I did voice so they should probably take that into consideration.)
Have I mentioned feeling like shit???
Terps