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i'm now a class assignment. i recently shared the link to this blog to some friends and family members so that they could get a better understanding of what it is i do. i've been feeling a little self-conscious about that, because i know that not everyone i sent the link to will agree with me on some of the topics i discuss. but i've shared and i hope it serves some purpose.

it has been a very long week. yesterday i felt like i had been dropped into some bizarre universe in which all of my students were instructed to be incredibly shitty to me. okay, maybe not so much a bizarre universe as springtime in junior high. ah yes, spring is in the air. the weather is gorgeous and spring break is around the corner. in the teacher's lounge morning, the comment was made that as the year gets shorter the weeks get longer. sing it, brother.

i've had to deal with quite a few discipline issues this week. i had to write a referral on a student that i quite like, but that did something so blatant that i couldn't possibly turn my back. he was, of course, indignant. apparently i should have written a referral on the other kid for "starting it" during lunch. where i wasn't. he couldn't understand that i can't write a referral on something i didn't witness.

i forget, sometimes, how the ability to view things outside of your narrow view, isn't something you have all along. many certainly don't have it in junior high. at least not in my experience.

i recently avoided becoming involved in a lawsuit through my job. a teacher was being fired for some pretty damaging and unethical behavior towards a student and i had witnessed a lot of the behavior or consequences of it. at the last minute she apparently accepted defeat and resigned. a sigh of relief. i only hope that she is not able to find employment as an administrator as she had been planning on doing.

i'm ready for the weekend.