A little of everything...

Since coming back from spring break it has been a journey.

Homicide, DOE, CPS investigation all in the course of a week.

Girl fight (bad one), middle school kid drama, and a staff member out for 10 days for back surgery - and it's only Wednesday. 

Today was the first day in a while I got to be in all of my classes without having to deal with a crisis. It was kind of nice to be able have a calm day.

Everyone asks if I have a bucket list. My answer is yes, I have one for teaching. When asked what's on it, my response is well, I don't really know until I get to put it on to knock it off...

So far I have -

being involved in an FBI raid
getting to talk with FBI / US Department of Ed Agents
student death as a result of a homicide

This week I have also come to the conclusion that teaching is bad for my health. I have one school to thank for my anti-depressant medication, all of my jobs for my weight gain, and my current job for putting me on blood pressure medication. Good thing I have insurance to pay for the drugs. If not my boss would be getting a nice bill.

Conversations I have had lately...

- staff member will be later than she thought because she has to take her dog to doggie daycare and her normal one is closed on Monday.
-so we are only going to have someone here 2 days a week to replace the therapist that is leaving? But that's not fair! We need someone here full time! (in a very whiney voice

• umm sorry - I didn't ask the therapist to quit, I'm not the one responsible for finding her replacement and I'm so sorry I don't have one to babysit your students that you don't like
• Same staff member sitting playing on her phone 5 minutes later- oh I'm sorry I forgot I was sitting here! I'll leave now. 

On a personal note -  I work with a fantastic English teacher that is undergoing cancer treatment. I would like to share her go fund me page.

https://www.gofundme.com/chasidistrong

Not an easy day

Today was meant to be a great day. First day back from Spring Break, we are in the final stretch, we can do this... Not so much...

This morning we found out that a high school student who attended our high school (we are a K-12 building) as of February this year, was shot and killed about an hour and a half north east of Indianapolis. Reports indicate that it was a homicide.

It has never been easy to watch students, current and former bury parents, grandparents and other relatives at young ages.

Saying that you lost a former student to a homicide makes all the others pale in comparison.

I wish that I could say that the last time I saw the student was on better circumstances. It wasn't. I was the expulsion hearing officer for him because he was up for expulsion. He was up for expulsion for theft of a staff member's wallet.

I wish that wasn't the last thing I remember of him. Overall he was a happy go lucky kind of kid from what I saw.

You just never know...