Update

So, I know I haven't written in awhile... I've been pretty swamped at work... grades are due next week and I feel like I'm drowning...

In related news, one of my high school classes (I teach two this year and four middle school classes) just earned the dubious distinction of having the worse ever class average on a test of any test I've ever given in my two and half years of teaching. Their grades are making me angry, which is why I'm taking a break to type this...

I'll have to wind up teaching them the concept again, making a new test for them, grading the new test after they take it... agh. Waste of instructional time, waste of my freaking time. And then I'll probably get preached at for falling behind schedule or something. Whatever.

Bets, I know you're reading. Honestly, how did you last seven years in this system?

This isn't helping to calm me down... let's see... what else can I talk (type) about?

Well, my husband got our (one) bike fixed and found his rollerblades, so for the past few days we've been riding/skating together around our neighborhood after work. It's been great fun (I love to bike and just be outdoors in general) but now I'm all stiff and sore and tired out. I keep telling myself that it will go away as I get used to it, but right now I'm pooped. In fact, when I finish typing this, I think I'm going to go to bed... I'll finish the last few tests in the morning. I was toying with not even grading the rest of them since over half of the class has failed miserably.

Maybe the chewing out I'll give them tomorrow will motivate them to actually DO something. I swear. My high schoolers are so less mature than my middle schoolers and that's a fact.