Amazingly Full Day

On Tuesday somebody decided we should put new stuff up on all the bulletin boards. So, somebody put together a schedule, and my name came up as first...Had to come up with a design and have it all mounted by the end of day Friday, since Monday was the arbitrary start date. I am not wired like everybody else, with a "screw that I will do it when I get to it" switch. I thought about it yesterday, and it kept me awake when I should have fallen asleep. But today I gave the kids the project. I made it easy enough that they can complete it by tomorrow. Bulletin board was already papered and bordered, and I got the lettering done this afternoon. Student work and a rubric (including State Performance Indicators) will go up tomorrow. It is good to be depended upon, but the extra works is not so nice.

Fun times with a mouthy student, too. She is always talking, and when corrected, snaps at teachers, especially me. She blames me for picking on her and claims other teachers don't have problems with her. So I gathered them and let her hear how troublesome she is. Sadly, she knows she has a talking problem, but "can't" do anything about so why bother. She also doesn't want to be corrected, which for her is not her problem. In the end I think we will turn her around, but for now she is pretty defiant.

Then, after carpool, right back to school to run the clock/scoreboard for the basketball games. Both games went very long, so I didn't get home until very late. Fans these days are pretty rough and abusive, and our boys coach got ejected, then fined when he said something to the ref on the way to the locker room. $250 fine. With less than 5 seconds to go in the game. With his team up by 8 points. And here we are trying to teach kids to control their tempers and use self control.