"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." — Dr. Seuss

Weird/offensive/sad/funny/inappropriate responses to the end of the year happening at RBN.

- lots of ditching, unfortunately done by one of my favorite students. We tracked her down and caught her, and at this point in the school year there were no consequence s given to any of them from the administration. ugh.

-Marcus telling me I was the best teacher ever and that they are sad when I am not there and that they are going to miss me a lot.
:)

-My 8th graders spending an entire period telling me I looked like a past (uglier) teacher, and then telling me that I looked like 2 of the other students, basically spent the whole time making fun of me and other teachers. I was trying to read "Oh the Places You'll Go" to them, and got all emotional, and all they could do was make fun of me. I am attesting this to several things: maybe this is their reaction to me being emotional and telling them I am proud of them and telling them how I will miss them and that I hope all the best for them in their futures. Maybe they can't handle the emotion, or they can't handle someone actually showing compassion towards them. Even though it sucked that they were basically calling me ugly and boring, I believe deep down their is some other explanation to their reaction.

- fights resulting in kids in the hospital :(

- two fire alarm pulls

- many Noel Idol talent show rehearsals, with lots of talented kiddos :)

-lots of food, packing, stress, rain, long days and even a few tears.

Definitely time for this part of the teaching journey to come to a bittersweet ending. Interesting to sit back and take inventory of how we are all dealing with the closing of this chapter.

- C